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Final Fantasy 9; Pyntie-Hets!
Topic Started: Feb 18 2005, 07:16 PM (923 Views)
Hyper-Ballad
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A thread for all FFIX fans...talk, discuss, worship! ^_^

This is another all-time favourite of mine as well. I feel it's a little under-rated though, because I hear the fandom making much more of a fuss about games like VII, VIII and X these days. Poor little IX is left out. It's unfair; especially as it's such a great game! :(

It's an amazing game, and I loved everything about it. Especially the characters. I love them all! Oh, I could rant for ages about how great the characters are... I love the Active Time Events, and how it gives you a look into the thoughts of all the characters; from main characters, to minor characters, to random townspeople. You really get to know everyone very well, and I cared about everyone. Especially Vivi. And you get to see them all (especially Garnet) act independantly of Zidane, which is great, because (especially in the later games) there's a bit of a tendency for everything to revolve around the hero, so getting to see the other characters do their thing was a real treat. ^_^

And I adored the Zidane/Garnet romance. Such a lovely relationship...these two are definitely my favourite canon couple... :wub:
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UsagiMamoru
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I loved Final Fantasy IX. Garnet is my favorite character. Dagger is my favorite character. Garnet is my favorite character. Yes! I'm in a very cheerful mood right now and I feel very good! Zidane/Garnet are a great couple. I loved all the castles and towns. The storyline was so great. FFIX was wonderful.
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Shiva
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I agree! FFIX was fantastic! ^_^ And did you guys know that the musical score for FFIX is Nobuo Uematsu's favorite? :D
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Hyper-Ballad
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And did you guys know that the musical score for FFIX is Nobuo Uematsu's favorite? :D


I'm not surprised. It was a fantastic score! :wub:

But I loved everything about the game (hmm...except Necron, maybe); the characters, the locations, the monsters... I loved the decision to take Final Fantasy back to the old-school style, and all the locations were gorgeously designed. And I found the storyline to be incredibely powerful and moving, too. The game was a total joy to play!
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Onigiri
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Tetra master is the best! I was so hooked on that. I didn't really like Zidane though...never liked the flirtateous type characters...and the ending with Necron...that really came out of no where...and it's what explained the logo too. o_O
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Skelly
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Tetra master was fun... but I didn't like it as much. I didn't want to lose any rare cards. :P It was unique though, but reminded me of the card game in FFVIII (what was the name of that game again? :huh: )

And... what did the logo look like again...? :blush:
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Orihime
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I just finished this game. (I'm pretty new with FF-games, so...) I agree that IX is a little bit unrated, and I can't understand it. Personally I liked it better than X, because the characters of X didn't intrest me that much as those of IX. I loved the places, characters, music, everything, and Zidane/Garnet was my OTP ever since the beginning.

Zidane also became my favourite FF-hero with Cloud. I don't know why, I just loved his more talkative attitude. Vivi was simply sweet, Beatrix awesome chick, Kuja was pretty cool, and other characters were also great. Garnet, for some reason, got on my nerves at times, but it's not that I would've hated her either.

Really fantastic game. It should get more attention!
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Buhon
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Aha! Excellent...

Though not nearly as "deep" a storyline as, say, VII or X, IX was a great game. I enjoyed the characters (Steiner was a favorite... Zidane, Vivi, and Freya were all close seconds). The supporting characters were great as well, like the Black Mages and those Gremlins/Goblins with the bizzare Scottish brogue ("Pyntie het"). It also had well-done graphics and visuals (esp. for PS1) and an excellent soundtrack (why am I not surprised that it's Uematsu's favorite?). I thought the "old school" flavor was a great idea, and IX was a refreshing departure from the darker storylines from VII and VIII. Overall, a very enjoyable game, and it's a total trajedy that it's been overlooked.

tsk tsk
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shadowedpuppet
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My sister plays FF9 all the time. She will go on and on about Vivi. He's her fave. I found it really sad (not in a bad way) when Vivi didn't know about his past or anyhting. When the black mages would "stop moving" he got so confused. Isis nearly cried. lol. I kinda laughed at her for it.
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Kaldea
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Vivi rules. That is all I shall say. ^_^
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Miss Yukari
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Yep, he does. Bless his heart. FFIX is awesome, I really enjoyed how it was back to old-school FF what with the ways abilities were learned and the Eidolons. Also, took me right back to FFVI when Ramuh appeared to test Garnet before he'd join her. In the other games, only the strongest summon monsters that you had to go on sidequests for actually spoke, so it was nice to see Ramuh speaking.

Zidane was a breath of fresh air as a hero, I thought. Mind you, the fact that he followed on from Squall probably has something to do with that opinion. It was just really nice to see a hero that could express himself, and the love story was handled much better than that of FFVIII. Zidane and Garnet's feelings for each other were developed slowly and believably over the course of the game, and there was no question that Zidane cared for her, and she loved him.

Beatrix was teh roxor. Steiner could be kind of annoying but I could tolerate him, and I loved the letter scene. Freya and Fratley's story was really moving, I felt so sorry for her, but at the same time, admired her. Kuja had an... interesting sense of fashion but I thought he was a really stylish villain. I think the scene at the end of Disk Two where Brahne dies was handled extemely well too. And do I really need to mention the awesomeness of the soundtrack? ^_^

The one thing I didn't like in IX was the limit break, Trance. I hated that I couldn't save it for bosses and it could be wasted on some random battle against a bite bug or something. I suppose it did make the game more challenging, but still, I found it annoying.
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Alan Bates
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I found this to be an excellent throwback to the old style of Final fantasy games. It certainly seemed a lot more like the SNES games than the Playstation ones.

The only reall problems I had where some of the character designs, Necron, and how Amarant and Freya's stories just seem to stop once they join your team.

Still, it's great work and the characters and much better than either FFX or FF8.
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Schala
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FF9 was the first FF game that I got hooked on. In my book, it was a great game (I mean, moogles as save points?). I was really quite sad when Kingdom Hearts came out and there wasn't a trace of an FF9 character. It seems like there's a void between VIII and X... FF9 doesn't deserve to be ignored.

The adventure element was really good, and although Dagger seemed a bit dull at first, I grew to like her. Zidane, I always favored (a hero who didn't let his memory and lousy background keep him down!), his flirting was strangely charming. I even like Kuja! Sure, he looks like a girl and has bad taste in clothes, but he's still got style. Nice silver dragon! I could really sympathize with him too, later on in the story.

Anyway, maybe I just enjoyed it because I have a thing for the sort of tale where bandit saves the princess and they fall in love. Well, except for this one time when I was stuck with no MP restoring items and an MP-less Dagger, Eiko, and Vivi... Finally I had Zidane do Sacrifice, but it was not a good feeling. :cry: Yeah, if there's one thing I have to complain about FF9, it's the battle system. A bit tedious since four characters can become quite a burden. Some enemies take forever to kill!

Still, all said and done, the storyline was wonderful! The places had a quaint sort of personality too. I loved hanging out in Alexandria and Limblum just talking to the people. It's like a more detailed and complicated fairy-tale! I thought FF9 was really well done and I still can't understand why it's given so little credit! Maybe because it was so conclusive? (though not really, they never did explain too much about HOW things happened... *Trying hard not to make a spoiler*)
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Kaldea
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There were no FFIX characters in KH because Tetsuya didn't design them. He only used characters he designed in that game.

Vivi should be in more games. He's in Itadaki Street Special but that doesn't count until it comes out where I live! :whistle:
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Alan Bates
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I read in an intreview somewhere that Tetsuya said he didn't feel comfortable using them in the first Kingdom Hearts, but has changed his views since then. So we might see some FF9 cahracters in the next KH.
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