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[HaveButOneLife]

"Whenever sang my songs, on this stage, on my own"
"You'd always be there in the corner, of this ti-ny lit-tle bar"
"My last night here for you, same old songs, just once more"

A love song, that's not even about the main couple, plays on a cyberpunk (ew, Nam flashbacks) aircraft inhabited by aliens still invokes emotion when the Faye Wong version finally plays after it plays in different themes throughout the game.

Masterpiece of a game, just had to praise it real quick.

Edit: I know what the song is actually about but in context it's weird it's played on Laguna's ship and not in his flashbacks, were the lyrics written after the fact?

 

[The Shepard]

It's about laguna who always attends the bar in deling and watches julia's shows with his eyes on her. She wrote it about him, She says as much in the flashbacks.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

It's literally about a woman and a man who have feelings for each other without them being direct about it and having a missed opportunity. It goes hand in hand with their children rectifying their mistake.

I fucking cried when Raine embraces Laguna in the ending.

 

[HaveButOneLife]

It's about laguna who always attends the bar in deling and watches julia's shows with his eyes on her. She wrote it about him, She says as much in the flashbacks.

It's made obvious if one were to play through the entire game but I thought it was funny. It makes sense since it's the son of Laguna and daughter of what's her face but still, it's weird how it still makes us emotional when it's played on the Ragnarok.

I do know what the song means but I don't know if it would still have the same impact if it were played in the Laguna flashbacks.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

As much as I love the game I got the strong impression segments of FFVIII were built around artistic setpieces that were developed independently at the same time rather than pre-planned, and then context shoehorned in. That song is an obvious one but I also think the ballroom dance scene existed before the part of the game where it happens was locked down, if that makes sense. And there's an awesome cutscene where they go to space briefly dressed as astronauts and everything. It has nothing to do with the rest of the game but they just built context around it. I think the developers got the footage from the cg department and were like "Awesome! Now how can we make this make sense?" This could also explain the preposterously epic duel with Seifer during the opening cutscene that is afterwards explained as a training exercise that got a little out of hand.