I’m not saying you’ll be blown away, but have you ever gone back and watched Playstation FMVs? They usually look outright dreadful. If you go back and watch the FMVs from the game they still hold up incredibly well. In reality FFIX was a gorgeous game that pushed the PSX to its limits. So instead of being put up against games on the PSX it was compared to PS2 games. It suffered from coming out right before the PS2, literally months before the console launched. While most people may not remember FFIX as a great looking game, those people remember wrong. IX fit together tightly, never trying for too many twist reveals just for the sake of it. Many of the games that came before IX had plot holes that would most accurately be described as glaring. One thing that FFIX does much better than it’s better known predecessor FFVII is make everything fit together. Best of all it wasn’t a system so complicated that it scared off players news to the series (looking at you FFVIII).įinal Fantasy games pretty regularly have plots that many people would describe as “out there.” FFIX was no exception to this, as the central plot involves taking over a planet by removing souls. Not every Vivi learned the same spells, not every Zidane was built the same. Sure, every character was limited in what abilities they could learn, but within each character there was a plethora of different abilities. The AP system for learning abilities was one of the simplest yet most addictive systems of any Final Fantasy game. Even in games where you could customize, certain characters always did best in certain roles so it just seemed like an extra step for no reason. Vivi was a black mage so he learned black magic, Dagger was a white mage, Zidane was a thief. FFIX went back to the good old class system where you have the holy trinity. No more convoluted “junction system” for magic, no characters being able to learn any kind of ability they wanted as long as they held the materia. Okay, so FFIX still had some science fiction elements, but they fit very well into the setting that was crafted for the game.Įven the gameplay of Final Fantasy IX was a throwback to the earlier games of the series. Guns, robots, and alien creatures were replaces by swords, airships, and…alien creatures. Final Fantasy IX eschewed the sci-fi trappings of it’s PSX predecessors in favor of the class fantasy setting that the series had been known for previously. If you had come into the Final Fantasy series on FFVII and FFVIII then you probably thought that Final Fantasy was a sci-fi series. Thanks to its release time many gamer have never even played FFIX, thanks to that it is often left in the shadows of it’s older siblings. FFIX was the third Final Fantasy game to come out for the Playstation and it came out towards the end of the consoles life. FFIX is unequivocally the greatest to ever make its way into the famous role-playing series, and hands down the most underrated. If you said Final Fantasy IV then you are less wrong, but still wrong. If you yelled Final Fantasy VII then you’re wrong. With the newest release of a Final Fantasy MMO I started to think about what the greatest game of the main series was.
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