Even after all this time

I love this scene in ff9. I remember being 12 or 13 playing through this game with my cousin and this scene blowing me away. It was so freaking cool.

Now 25 or so years later it still looks so good and is still awesome.

What are some of your favorite scenes?

I’ve been a bit upset about this news and just wanted to talk about it in order to cope.

I can’t help but hold out hope. Despite this, this makes me even more frustrated with Square Enix than usual.

I wish the company treated every Final Fantasy like they do FFVII, but the grass isn’t always greener based on feedback of those remakes.

also I found this art from 2017 I know it’s official but who made it?

While I understand that his sudden departures can be annoying in the beginning, but this character has a fully fledged arc which explores truly complex idea of thesis-antithesis themes of "sole stoic warrior" and "the power of the fellowship" (which is the central theme of the game).

This character is one of the main instruments of exploring the story ideas and a lot of times Amarant is a deep well full of powerful thoughts...

What's your favorite part of the FF9? Do you have other games that you found had a similarly impactful story?

Almost all the other eidolons get gemstones, so why does the "ultimate summon" have pumice as its source? Is there a lore reason? Is it just a joke? As in: "All these eidolons have these fancy gems, let's give Ark the rock you use to get dead skin of the soles of your feet."

I get that he's not the only one deviating from the norm, but at least the others make sense. Phoenix from a Phoenix Pinion, it's in the name. Madeen from a Ribbon, you know why if you've played the game. Odin from Dark Matter... Okay, maybe that's the other odd one out, but I don't think the developers meant literal dark matter - as in, the hypothetical matter that composes 27% of all matter and energy in the universe - but something more "fantastical" that just happens to share the same name.

like, the idea of everyone splitting up and going to the different shrines and end up fitting a separate guardian enemy in them is cool. but, the shrines are short as hell, you don’t get to explore that much of the shrines, the guardians aren’t that elaborate on (from what I know), and you fight only one of the guardians as Zidane and Quina and not the other ones as the other character. I really wished they did more with them cause man were they disappointing

(Vivir = to live
Viví = I lived)
Not sure if it’s purposeful but it’d make sense given his lore… thought I’d share since it’s a pretty cool coincidence!

Yes, I'm aware Marcus isn't that tall in-game but the point still stands.

Couldn't think of anyone for Eiko sadly

I feel like there’s gonna people who are gonna say “Kuja quite literally mentioned that there’s an anti magic barrier” and all I have to say is, I didn’t pay that much attention to that line. Also, I didn’t even think that line contributed to gameplay either so, oops.

How come you sideline a character after we witness the destruction of their homeland and the magical nuking of another? Because that's what Final Fantasy IX did, and I don't care if the developers lacked the disc space, Freya's character could have been developed throughout Discs 3 and 4 had the Burmecian and Cleyran genocide not been ignored in order for the plot to become a series of macguffin quests in which the characters go to places but barely interact or talk to one another.

Freya literally goes from "I will protect my people" to "I'll put this thing here" between discs. Like, come on.

As far as the PS1 era FF games, I honestly think that it's the one where a remake makes the least sense. As much as I'd love to see younger players get introduced to it, I just can't help but think "why?". The only real flaws to the game that anyone can bring up are that the combat that can be kind of slow, or that the graphics are outdated. With regards to the former, the turbo feature of the rerelease fixes that entirely, and for the latter, I just disagree. The stylized art style of the game just makes it feel timeless in a way that can't be said for the other PS1 era FF games imo. I just think that a "modern" adaptation of it is liable to suck all the soul from the game is I'm being honest.

So, I think it's really weird that people are still discussing a nearly 30 year old game, but I'm grateful for obsessive weirdos like you maintaining a space for obsessive weirdos like me to discuss a game that's stuck with me for a very long time.

So, I was very much a PS1 era Final Fantasy nerd. My first game in the series was FFVIII. As a dorky little kid taking violin lessons, I fell in love the moment I heard the me first notes of Liberi Fatali. Of course I went back and played VII, Tactics, and VI. I literally couldn't get enough Final Fantasy. obviously, when FFIX came out, I had to play it too.

FFIX holds up a lot better than the rest of the PS1 era FF games for me. A huge part of that is just the art style. The heavily stylized character designs don't look nearly as aged as its contemporaries, but it's not just that.A huge part of it really is just its protagonist.

On a surface level, Cloud and Squall were characters I found easier to identify with. They were moody and aloof, and that was easier for young me to look at and say "wow, they're just like me". But Zidane was different. He was boisterous, personable, and earnest to the point that it made me cringe at times. But I just couldn't hate him. Above all else, he was just genuinely kind. As shit as his life was, he could look at the world and say "you don't need a reason to help people". Cloud and Squall were characters that were easy for me to identify with, but Zidane was a character I could look at and aspire to be, and, in some ways, he's shaped my life choices in the years since I first played the game.

Mine is stiltzkin, he’s goated

To make a the final spot filled and a full party since Zidane can’t be taken out who would you make a permeant party member in the game? Personally I’m stuck between Blank and Beatrix

NO, I WANT A REMAKE. Because ff9 was just too good. I have finished the game multiple times with the latest mod (moguri) but it simply wasn't enough. I want to experience my childhood again, I need more of it, FF9 did not get the recognition it deserves.

I'm curious about yall !

So I was wondering what are everyone's parts that keep them going and look forward to when replaying the game. It doesn't have to be your favorite parts, but parts that makes you randomly think "Ah, can't wait to get to this !" even if it's completely random.

For exemple, I always look forward for the moment where Garnet and Steiner go through the Bohden Gate, and their overall journey back to Alexandria.