I don't know what everyones complaining about. Yes, Zidane was a cocksure and Kuja was a nancy but the game had a lot more to it than those two!
It took a step-back on the technology part compared to the other PS1 Gens but at least that provided the fantasy which we all used to yearn for as a youth.
When this game, hit the shelves. I really couldn't be asked to play i... read more
This is the game that started it all for me. The first game that I ever beat, the first complex story that I learned to understand. The charaters where fanominal, the gameply excentric, the story exotic, and the graphics were the best on a ps1 system by far. No game comes close for me on my top five as my favorite game. Zidane was a charater that I instantly knew would be exotic (its the tail). Ga... read more
Of all the Final Fantasy games released on the Playstation, this was without doubt my least favourite. Apparently this game is a tribute to the roots of the series. That means there are a few feuding kingdoms and no human characters. The game goes back to the classic storylines of obtaining crystals to try and prevent catastrophe befalling the land.
Description:As with the other games in the series, Final Fantasy IX has the ability to grab your attention from the time you fire it up until the last boss is put down. Previous entries into the game's lineage took a more dramatic cinematic route to do what a role-playing game does best--tell a story. That style led to some complaints from headstAs with the other games in the series, Final Fantasy IX has the ability to grab your attention from the time you fire it up until the last boss is put down. Previous entries into the game's lineage took a more dramatic cinematic route to do what a role-playing game does best--tell a story. That style led to some complaints from headstrong fans and role-playing gamers alike. In response to this, while not sacrificing what new technology they've built into the series, SquareSoft has backtracked a bit. To put it simply, they've gone back to their roots.
But even players with no experience in this series can pick this up as a new game. Final Fantasy IX's story follows a group trying to stop Brahne, the evil Queen of Alexandria, in her quest to rule the world. Zidane, a skilled thief, teams with a young mage, a royal knight and a princess, who all soon discover that the queen's threats are fronting an even more sinister plot involving a powerful sorcerer named Kuja. It's your job to control the eight playable characters--each of whom begin the game with one weapon, one piece of armour and one special power--and to uncover Kuja's motives before he carries out his deadly plan.
The game's opening sequence sets the stage for what's to follow and, as we've come to expect from the CG wizards at SquareSoft, what is an utterly amazing visual scene. Long-time fans will revel in SquareSoft's decision to return to the disproportional-character look of the past.
Like VII and VIII, Final Fantasy IX uses the ATB (Active Time Battle) system. With each character learning the abilities and commands appropriate to his or her job class.
An Active Time Event (ATE) lets you see events that are happening elsewhere. For example, while you are controlling the main character in a town, you can view what the other characters are doing in another part of the same town. This function provides additional information and behind-the-scenes details about the story and the characters.
The game's visual splendour touches even the most ordinary scenes, such as shadows in the street alleys and the mazes of cobblestones. Final Fantasy IX's colour palette does a remarkable job in creating interest on every single object, location and person.
This will be SquareSoft's last venture on the PlayStation for the Final Fantasy Series, with its awesome graphics, a good story, and random battles that reveal curious bits about each character, Final Fantasy IX is an epic adventure that'll have long-time fans of the acclaimed series beaming with pride and joy. As for everyone else who has yet to experience the Fantasy, now is the time! --Stuart Miles
"Release Date: July 7, 2000 (JP)
Publisher: SquareSoft
Developer: SquareSoft
Genre: RPG
I really adore Final Fantasy IX. For a few years after it was released, it rivaled Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VI as my favorite in the series, with my mind consistently changing between the three. In time, it has settled in behind both of those games, but my love for this gem remains. The graphical style, the return to the fantasy roots, the characters (except Eiko...I wanna punt her like a football)"
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There are so many good characters in most of the games I've played, and a lot of them have a place in my mind, so it has been very difficult to determine only one.
His evolution through the game, since you meet him in Alexandria with his ticket, to the very end of the game; the sad moments when he’s trying to find answers in the ones like him; the memories of his “grandpa”; the relationship with Steiner; the very ending itself… There are many things that make Vivi a memorable characte"
""When it comes to throwback titles there are few games as successful as Final Fantasy IX. Granted, some may be disappointed by the inability to customize their characters to the degree allowed in Final Fantasy VII and VIII but such simplicity is hardly the vice some make it out to be. Still, if I was going to pick at any individual element of IX it would be the villains – I’m not the biggest Kuja fan.""
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