That means if you follow this guide from the start of the game, it'll guide you to 100% completion on all the rarest, one-off cards, avoiding any missables.
It gets stranger still when you involve the Queen of Cards, a NPC who causes new cards to appear in the world only when you lose existing rare cards to her - which completionists will want to do, but then win back the other rare card you lost along the way.Īnyway, on this page we break all that down nice and easy - we list every rare and unique triple triad card in FF8 out, explain how to get it, and best of all list the rare cards in order. There's only one place to get them, and sometimes some strange steps are involved. The final three ranks of card in the game - level 8, level 9 and level 10 - represent GFs and major players in FF8's story - and all of these cards are one-of-a-kind. There is a little bit of a problem with triple triad and rare cards in particular in FF8, however - the system is rather obtuse, just like things like the FF8 weapon upgrade system. It is an absolutely key, major part of the FF8 experience - and collecting the rare cards and completing the Card Queen side quest is something of a rite of passage as much as passing your SeeD exam. It's about Shuffle or Boogie, that amazing theme music. Final Fantasy VIII might be about saving the world from evil magic, but let's face it, it's also about cards.