Piano Collections: Final Fantasy VIII is a piano arranged album of tracks from Final Fantasy VIII. The first print of this album contains an enlarge poster of the watercolor cover art of Squall and Rinoa. Some of those who preordered the CD also received a six-month year 2000 calendar with an enlarged version of the Final Fantasy VIII PC cover art as illustration.
The liner notes contain the piano score to "Eyes On Me", a profile of performer Shinko Ogata, picture of Ogata, Nobuo Uematsu, and Shirō Hamaguchi, and messages from Uematsu and Hamaguchi.
Published by Yamaha Music Media, the Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collection Sheet Music book contains the sheet music for Shirō Hamaguchi's arrangements on the Piano Collections: Final Fantasy VIII album. These pieces are arranged for solo piano and the difficulty level is from intermediate to advanced.