Rinoa Heartilly's Origins Explained ► Final Fantasy 8 Lore

With Final Fantasy 8 Remastered releasing not too long ago, it felt like the perfect time to dive back into the lore of Final Fantasy 8 as we've only done Squall so far from that game! Hopefully you guys enjoy learning more about her character!

my favorite grumpyxsunshine duo🥺

Still to this day im not a fan of her. The other ladies, yes, but Rinoa, no.

Rinoa and Squall are in my top 3 for favorite romances.

squall layenheart? tf

As far as I'm concerned, Rinoa is just a failed attempt to replicate what Aerith was

Wow, your dedication to the authenticity of FF8's story through this Rinoa deep dive has honestly brought me to tears. A beautiful tale that will live on

Thanks for the fantastic narration!! 🙏🏽
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I think VIII probably has my favorite narrative out of the series, or at least character development. The growth that Squall and Rinoa go through is really charming, and Eyes On Me might be my favorite love song ever.

Man. The background music. Is. So. Nice.

I'm not sure that's an official pronunciation guide for Final Fantasy VIII, but I always think of Elone having the Greek E making the game sound more like El-oh-nee kind of like Penelope or Persephone.

That's a little misleading. Squall, Zell, and Selphie would have absolutely charged into the station and tried to kidnap or kill Deiling. Squall's frustration is born out of the fact that he feels his skills and status as a SeeD are being woefully underutilized by an admittedly amateurish operation. The SeeDs did not talk Rinoa down from doing something stupid. In fact they received an order to apprehend Seifer that superseded the contract. The group would have definitely charged in though.

But it's part of the narrative which actually cleverly examines and deconstructs the common youth media and especially Japanese trope of the super-powered war-veteran sixteen-year-old, and shows just how rough it is to take on saving the world as a responsibility.

While not my favorite FF, I very much enjoyed 8. I just could never finish it. The battle system never did it for me. I'd get to disc 4 easily, and then the jump in difficulty was so extreme I just gave up.

I love the videos that y’all do! Your research is second to none. I have loved ffviii for a long time and I didn’t know a lot of the stuff that you mentioned.

Aaand as a final fantasy fan yourself do you also have fun playing the new theatrhythm? :D

Rinoa is my favorite character from the final fantasy series thank you soooo much for this video! ♥

Happy birthday to you Riona.🎁🎉🎂🎊

She's so Ultimecia. No question about it.

Eyes on me is the best song in final fantasy franchise.

Rinoa is not as popular as other females but I still love her.

Commented 3 years late. FF8 is the best RPG gem of the PS1 generation, when you count magic, refining, cards, mini games, gf relationships, gf abilities, tank heal dps options in the junction menu plus att def, status att and def it was leagues and leagues ahead of any game of it's time. Still IMHO the best FF, it was the truest RPG.

Final Fantasy 8 Remake when? 😭😭😭

Awesome. I still can't believe that Mike Tyson had a face tattoo after a video game character though 🤔😂

"Mom, how did you meet dad?"
"It's...a long story."

"Even if the world ends, I'll be your knight." Endless Time Paradox between two people.

Ff8 will always have the best romance in all final fantasy series

Ahh yes. Rinoa. The love of my life

Side note: Eyes on Me was written by the man the myth the legend Nobuo Uematsu and sung by J-Pop icon Faye Wong.

So by the end of the game, isn't she like...the most powerful sorceress ever? She has Ultimecia's power, Edea's power, and Adel's power at that point doesn't she?

Laguna

Feels like playing the game again just by watching (mostly listening to) the video. Thanks. She might initially come of as a bit of an airhead like Selphie, but she has massive character development over the game, more than Squall I'd say

I want to name my daughter Rinoa

I still think she is Cid and Edea's daughter and then they made a deal with what they were doing, building Garden. That their daughter wouldn't be a part of it. And gave them to a high military official in Delling, the general...

Rinoa was my first Waifu. She's my first love... Sigh....

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It’s sad that Rinoa’s mother died. Laguna and Julia not being together was also sad

How Rinoa becomes a powerful witch is still doubtful to me. I need a backstory for that, the wings on her back do not explain well.

I’m always going to be connected to Rinoa. My dad was such a big fan of ffviii when it first came out, and he loved the character of Rinoa, so he named me after her. I thought my name was just weird before, but after I played the game I realized how lucky I was to be named after her 😊

great channel

7 was good but how do you go from 7 to the extremes of 8?

i have a hard time picking my favorite between rinoa and squall. i really enjoyed this video i hope to see more from this one in particular! :)

legend said that Nomura modeled Rinoa after the Japanese actress Sakai Noriko

The fact is Rinoa betraid and turned her back on her own flesh and blood... that is not a good thing... she is an ingreat to do all she did... and for what? to spite her father? no matter how she grow or what she achived it can never deny the fact that she put to no use all the resoucces her father had used up for her... and that she allowed her self to be drifted away from her only living parent just to be selfish on her own way. She is a stupid offspring of her father.

Reliving this game again Thanks Remastered lol also
1.Rinoa
2.Riku
3.Tifa
4.Aerith
In that order for me 😅

Character wise this might be my favorite FF game
Everyone is just so full of charm

I would love to see a video on Gau.

I absolutely loved this. Thank you so much

No mention of the weird Mandela effect (or possibly very specific game trigger) where leguna did not leave Julia's room, and Julia was already pregnant when carroway took her in (and was very clearly one of the reasons he supported her).

I remember seeing both scenes (two different scenes at different points in the game) the first time I played. To this day I don't know if there was a very specific order I had to do things in to trigger it.

The idea that rhino's and squall are half-siblings doesn't come out of nowhere.

(in that way - it's like cloud being a 'clone' like the rest of the numbered guys. Something that you only originally knew if you return to nibbleheim and saw one very specific hidden cjtscene. Crisis core brought that aspect of the story a little bit closer to front and centre.)

somehwo she feels like a not so cool lesser Tifa ....
spoiled child has to come to terms with real emotions and different types of characters..

Laguna was so unreliable he literally stood one lady and left her heart broken and the other he left her to die after plowing her field. Some father figure!