Final Fantasy IX - ProJared

A review of FINAL FANTASY IX, the often overlooked final installment in the PlayStation 1 trilogy of Final Fantasy games. It brought us the surprisingly deep story of Zidane, Garnet and Vivi. Was it overlooked for good reason? It's always been one of my favorites; is Final Fantasy IX one of your's?

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Final Fantasy IX is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Squaresoft for the PlayStation video game console. It is the ninth game in the main Final Fantasy series. The plot centers on the consequences of a war between nations in a medieval fantasy world called Gaia. Players follow bandit Zidane Tribal, who kidnaps Alexandrian princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII as part of a gambit by the neighboring nation of Lindblum. He joins Garnet and a growing cast of characters on a quest to take down her mother, Queen Brahne of Alexandria, who started the war.

The game was developed alongside Final Fantasy VIII. Envisioned by developers as a retrospective for the series, it departed from the futuristic settings of Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, and Final Fantasy VIII by returning to the medieval style of the earlier installments. Consequently, it was influenced heavily by the original Final Fantasy, and features allusions to the rest of the games. Despite this approach, the game did introduce new features to the series, such as "Active Time Event" cutscenes, "Mognet", and skill systems. Final Fantasy IX was the last game in the main series whose music was composed solely by Nobuo Uematsu.

Final Fantasy IX was released to critical acclaim and is considered one of the greatest video games of all time. Often cited by critics and fans as one of the best Final Fantasy games, it also holds the highest Metacritic score of the series. Final Fantasy IX was commercially successful, selling more than 5.5 million copies on PlayStation by March 2016. It was re-released in 2010 as a PS1 Classic on the PlayStation Store; this version was compatible with PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable; PlayStation Vita support arrived in 2012. Ports featuring minor gameplay and graphical enhancements were released for various other platforms in the late 2010s.

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[elendless]

You can't hear Steiner's song without reminiscing of the "clank clank clank" metal boots.

[givemeabreak]

"VII is the most important one, VI is my favorite one, but IX is the best one" is just a 10/10 line.

[notafbiagent]

Holy shit, we went from a 8 month wait to a 1 month wait. Jared’s upgrading

[obi-wank-enobi]

The party of ff9 reminds me of a dnd party. A bunch of strangers who meet each other by chance starting off not trusting each other but soon learn to count on each other and help each other with their personal problems. And before they know it they are fighting alongside each other to save the world from calamity.

[zeez]

"Here's a bear, it's a 2/2"
You really can recognize a magic player from miles away.

[destroyer]

"I don't need a reason to help someone" has cemented itself in my mind as a code to live by in all honesty

[movezig]

... I actually replayed it twice already... maybe it's time to do it for the third time?

Also, I think Zidane is a good example of a character with a "flat character arc." The story isn't about how _he_ changes, but about how he _changes those around him._

[Kelorel]

The "You are Not Alone" moment at the end of IX, is the best written moment in Final Fantasy history imo. No other moment in the franchise has ever made me cry as consistently as this one did. It was the climax of a very well written story building to that very moment. Absolutely spectacular.

Final Fantasy IX is the best game of the franchise to this day.

[DarrenJensen]

I always found it interesting how Zidane's and Vivi's story arcs parallel eachother. They both learn that they were created for the purpose of destruction, but they both react in different ways. Vivi recognizes that he can chose to be whoever he wants to be and decides to be a person who protects his friends. Zidane on the other hand completely draws into himself and pushes his friends away until they come together to remind him that he is not alone

[crazyheros]

I swear this game has only gotten better as I've gotten older. As a teenager I never really got the whole theme of the game was about life and death. Zidane, Kuja, Vivi, Eiko, Freya, and Garnet stories are all about different aspects of death, dealing with loss, and our own inevitable demise. I never even realized Vivi died before the ending movie plays and the narration was basically Vivi's last words and when I played it as an adult and figured that out it hit me hard.

[harrisonho]

I've read online that both Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu consider this to be their favorite Final Fantasy game they ever worked on, with Sakuguchi saying that this game is closest to his ideal vision of what Final Fantasy should be, and Uematsu stating that this game had his personal favorite soundtrack of all the Final Fantasy games he had worked on.

[LoneWolf]

Of all the FF games, this one was the most emotional one for me. In hindsight, I feel like Vivi was a precursor to what we would see in the Nier games. That existential crisis.

[dinkledonker]

I think one of my favorite moments was early on in disk one: I thought Garnet was gonna be a temporary character, since you didn't get to name her like everyone else and I was I was bummed thinking she'd be gone

But then, in a moment of defiance against the life that was decided for her, she decides to go by a new name.

Working something as simple as naming a party member into a key narrative point was awesome

[BaufenBeast]

The opening theme for FF9 is called "The place I'll return to some day", as if it knew that everyone will eventually replay this game.

[JugbandGates]

I dont think Quina is only comic relief. Quina represents what everyone in the cast strives to achieve: happiness. Everyone has some sort of moral dilema or existencial crisis at some point. Quina doesnt, for her she just lives her at her fullest, goes with the flow, she just considers everything to be either food or not food, and she is just happy with that.

[julioe]

Final Fantasy 9 was and still is my Dad's favorite Final Fantasy games of all time. Growing up, I would see him play this game and enjoy every moment of it. I got the game recently and I cannot wait to experience the adventure that my Dad had with this game.

[stormstrider]

Zidane was my hero.
Period.
In an age of gritty, edgy, emo-git antiheroes, Zidane was my role model of just doing what's right because it's the right thing to do, and it's okay to appreciate the ladies while you do it.

[Kugo]

Steiner is my favorite type of D&D player to play with

[darkmage]

"That Elixer that I'll consider maybe finally using once the credits roll."

I feel personally attacked.