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A Rush Job W/ anticlimatic ending

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: January 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It is obvious that Square Rushed this game to Market. I finished the game in under 25 hours. The end "Boss" was a joke and EASILY defeated.People have been trashing FF8 but in comparison, FF8 was a gem. FFIX has a disjointed story, and all the cliches Squaresoft innundates all it's RPGs with (except FF8). The characters become annoying quickly and there is no real challenge througout the entire game. Nothing that comes close to the search for Knights of the Round in FF7, or battling the Ultimate Weapons in FF7 and FF8. I was very disappointed with this game... Thank God for Metal Gear!!

Some People Will Fall For Anything

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is (bad). Sorry. So many people loved it, but I'll tell you why (I didn't like) it.
First off, RPGs are GAMES. Not books. Dialogue, story, interaction, blah blah blah is not what makes the game important. It may be one of the factors, but it does not make an RPG. If you want a story, if you want characters, go pick up a book. I do not buy (...)games to read line after line of text, thank you very much.
Final Fantasy IX was pieced together with the so called "best" of all the games. Some people thought this was good, personally I find it bad. If you've played the previous FF games you'll know all the tricks and strategies already. If you played any one of the FF games you'll know all the magic attacks.
This game has everything we've seen before in it, and that's the problem. It was patched together with tiny little pieces of cloth from all the FF games, and it makes one raggedy game.
The characters were dumb. We have Zidane, who makes it his business to help people for no reason. There's Garnet, who's part in the story was so meaningless to me I forget what her silly little probelm was. We have Vivi, a doll who wonders what will be come of him, as he is just one doll of several that were created and will soon die. We have Quina, who's whole character is an idiot who loves to eat. Amarant, resembling something of, let's say, Wolverine of the X-Men, who doesn't understand why he should help people. And Freya, some half-rat humanoid searching for a lost mate (or so I vaguely remember.) FF imitates so many other sucky RPGs with team members who fight for no reason, and risk their lives to save the world just because they have nothing else better to do.
The storyline is basically FF7s, if you take "lifestream" and rename it to "mist." The storyline is revealed towards the end of the story, but there are still to many plotholes within it. If I thought anyone would like it, I could have pieced together such a crappy storyline overnight.
Like I said before, the battles don't make up for anything. We have a quite simple battle/skill system, that silly row system that doesn't do anything but subtract from the challenge of the game. The magic is just like the other games: Fire, Fire2, Fire3, etc. We've seen all the moves and there's nothing dynamic other than their high frame rates.
At the beginning we're all waiting to fight the fat-as-heck Queen Brahne but in the final battle we end up fighting some silly monster whom we've never seen at all, in any way, until then. It's no fun to beat a final boss that you don't hate.
The music isn't all that great, the story (is bad), the characters (are bad), the battle system (is bad). I can honestly say I'm glad I rented this game and didn't buy it. It's really not worth the money.

If you will fall for this game and not realize how (awful) it really is, then Square has succeeded to confuse you.

BIG dissapointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 31
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yes, I liked FF9. I love Final Fantasy. I've been an FF follower ever since FF IV (Final Fantasy II in the US).

In my opinion, the series was getting better and BETTER AND BETTER. It was MATURING with each new installment; getting more realistic, more dramatic, more epic, more action-packed, and the storylines were getting DEEPER. More mysteries, more depth, more layers.

I fell in love with FF 7; the blend of techno and fantasy (FF 6 tried to do it to a degree) was AMAZING. Truly ingenious..........and then I played FF 8; my GOD. What a FANTASTIC GAME; FF 8 (despite the GF flaw) was the best in the series: THAT was the type of FF game I want play!

Then I buy FF 9.........Compared to FF 8, it was crap; plain and simple. The storyline was DULL: A 13 year-old could have come up with it. The graphics were nice, but repetitive. It was flat; there was no complexity. It felt too plain and typical.

The Square team probably just slapped this thing together in order to meet the fan response to FF 8. FF 9 is the worst in the series, but as far as a normal game; yes, it's quite good. But as far as the FF standard is concerned, it's THE WORST. During the CRAPPY ending sequence, I felt as though I had been violated by Square. This is the only FF game I've ever played that seemed as though it were a purely financial venture on Square's part.

I'm looking forward to FF 10, which looks AWESOME in the video clips I've seen: I think Square realized what a terrible mistake FF 9 was.

Finally (no pun intended) Final Fantasy Returns to medivel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is just amazing, the best in the series on the playstation, but nowhere compared to Final Fantasy 2 in the super nintendo. This game brings such a smile to my face when Final Fantasy 8 almost made me cry after such an extreme dissapointment! The characters are wonderful, desinged by Yoshitaka Amano. The battle system is great and the plot returened to when Final Fantasy is suppossed to take place, not in the future (blech) If only the movie that is coming out wasn't in the future. P.S. (it is scary how much the main character Zidane looks so much like me!

Squaresoft has done it again!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Being a big fan of all the Final Fantasy's I belive that this was just the greatest ever made. Compared to all the others it blows them out of the water. This game is not very realistic but i love it, if you were one of the many people to play Final Fantasy 8 you might think that they are simler but they don't come close. In Final Fantasy 9 everything is very unique and fun to see all the aazing things that people have thought of. The battle system is basicaly the same but I like that not everyone can use one thing everyone has some special thing of their own. This game is a great game to get into and play for hours everyday. In this game there is always something to do form Mini-games to catching chochobos.

Faithful Return To Final Fantasy's Roots a Great Success!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A step away from the innovative gameplay systems of Final Fantasy VIII and a sucessful fusion of the old with the new makes this the best Final Fantasy made for Playstation. The graphics are great, some of the best I've seen on Playstion and the way the FMVs integrate with the storyline is incredible. The gameplay combines some of the best ideas of the older Final Fantasies with some new ideas. The characters are done extremely well and the interaction between them makes a great storyline as well, the best one out of the Playstation Final Fantasies in my opinion. The Active Time Events (ATE), which lets you see events that are happening somewhere else are fun and add a lot to the story, as well as providing some humor and the decisions you make in them may affect the game later. The summons are also back, but do not have as much importance to the game or the story as Final Fantasy VIII for example, but provide a good amount of eye candy. The large amount of mini-games and sidequests are fun to do also, but not manditory to progress the game, so the game can take you as long or as short as you want. Finally, this game wouldn't be complete without the musical score, one of the best recent scores. The music comes in at perfect times and is very emotional, adding so much to the game. Overall, if you're looking for a new RPG with just about everything Playstation has to offer, this is it.

Arguably the greatest FF game out there.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy IX is easily one of the greatest games released for the Playstation and might possibly be the greatest Final Fantasy game ever created. And there are some pretty good other FF games out there...

This game reminded me greatly of Chrono Cross, which is another awesome Playstation game. But where that game failed, this one shined. In Chrono Cross there were 40 playable characters all with paper thin personalities. This game has 8 characters but every single one of them was memorable and a joy to play.

Theres the hilarious and hungry Quina, the cute and sad Vivi, the confident ladies man Zidane, and the typical loner Amarant.
Every character oozes with life and looks wonderful. The designs and dialogue are a joy to behold in this game.
Each character is also very unique in that they have their own special skills unlike some other Final Fantasys like part 6 and 7.

Every thing is perfect about this game, from its story, graphics, music, movies, dialogue, and gameplay. This game took me 60 hours to beat it and every side quest and every second was a wonderful experience.

If there is one minor gripe i have its that the game was too easy. I blew through every boss battle with one try and the only battle i ever died on was against the hidden boss Ozma.
Once you get the Auto Regen skill you can sadly hold down the fight command and just sit back and demolish the game.

In the end this game is a true gem. It is easily one of the greatest Final Fantasy games and one of the top rpgs of all time. If you own a Playstation or PS2 you should not be without a copy of this game.

........wow!!!!! I mean, seriously, WOW!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A really annoying part of my life is that there's all these really awesome video games that are not on the market anymore and I have some trouble getting my hands on them and then when I finally do, I have trouble finding someone to discuss them with because I was too young to have played them the first time around. Final fantasy IX is the SINGLE BEST GAME I have ever played. I mean, sure to some people the graphics would leave something to be desired. But I think they're absolutely great.

I inversely kind of like the text boxes as opposed to the long winded dialogue of Final Fantasy X (which I was old enough to play as soon as it came out)partly because you can read as fast as you want, and you can tack funky accents on to the characters. For example, in my universe, Blank talks in a Scottish accent, Zidane speaks Cockney, Steiner talks in a Mickey Mouse voice, Eiko sounds a bit like Vivian Blaine and . . . never mind, not important. Anyway...

The game itself is too amazing for words. A person could spend fourteen hours playing it without noticing that any time passed at all. It's a game that draws you in right from the very start. Following Vivi's wander around Alexandria, which in itself is rather fun, you get taken to Alexandria Castle, which is arguably the most fun part of the entire game, beginning with a fight which precedes an awesome mini-game in which Blank and Zidane duel. The game is linear, but flexible, and you end up getting pretty attached to the eight main characters--Zidane, Garnet/Dagger, Freya, Vivi, Steiner, Eiko, Quina and Amarant--and even to the side characters like Kuja, Puck, Beatrix, Baku (who sneezes every time he's about to make an entrance) Marcus, Blank and Cinna and even Ruby. There are so many memorable points in the game--playing with chocobos in the chocobos forest, hanging out in Alexandria at the start of disc 3, exploring Alexandria castle at the beginning of disc 1, saving the people of Cleyra, fighting giant puppies in Alexandria, wandering through the woods to Black Mage Village (and dealing with the supreme frustration of seemingly malfunctioning signs) renaming Garnet just 'Garnet', kicking the stuffing out of Lani in Fossil Roo, mucking around at Daguerreo, cooking dinner at Madain Sari--the list is endless, but this list makes Final Fantasy IX a game you'll want to play again and again and again. The plot is fascinating, the characters are delightful, the gameplay is simple, and to be frank, the only difficult part of the game is fighting Lani at Fossil Roo . . . making it all the more memorable when you finally kick the stuffing out of her.

Yay!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing Final Fantasy video games since the original came out for the Nintendo way back when before there were all these fancy systems with movies and high-tech graphics. None of that stuff really matters to me. What I want is a game that's fun to play that will keep me interested for the whole run of the game. I found exactly what I was looking for in Final Fantasy IX... and more. It is now my favorite game in the series. The characters were so well developed that it was like they were characters in a book I was reading. The story moved along well, and the side quests were fun and interesting.

Unlike the other Playstation Final Fantasy games, this one gets back to the classic fantasy setting for the game. FF VII and VIII were set in a more modern/futuristic setting that sort of took away from the whole "fantasy" element. It made sense that these characters used swords.

The addition of fancy graphics and the new things that can be done with the new fancy systems does help the game. It adds to it. I loved the ending sequence to this game--and that couldn't have been done on an old-school Nintendo. I'm glad I finally broke down and got a PlayStation, and I'm very glad I bought this game.

A Summation of the Final Fantasy Series as we know it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As many people already know, this is the final Final Fantasy for the Playstation, and as such, it is a summation of the past 8 games in the series. The producers made this game with this intent in mind. So you're not going to see anything incredibly revolutionary, like the (at the time) incredible graphics of FF 7 or the crazy gameplay system of FF8. Instead, what you will find is a simply well-made, enjoyable game.

There has been lots of controversy over the quality of the Playstation Final Fantasy games, and my interpretation of this will be no different. This game seemed like the best in the series to me, since it was a well made game. There were no screwed up battle systems like in FF8, the plot was actually consistent and made sense, unlike FF7, and the graphics were in general great. In terms of craftsmanship, the only Final Fantasy which is close (if not better) is FF 6.

The gameplay was excellent. The item-ability system was reminiscent of the Esper system in FF6, the trance system of the limit system in FF7 and FF8, and the synthesis system from FF8. All these elements come together to make a game that is fun to play. While the random battles can become a drag, the sheer graphical quality of the fights is enough to make at least the first few ones in each area enjoyable.

The world map is also the largest in the series. While there aren't multiple world maps, there are enough areas in the game to keep you occupied. This means there are plenty of side quests to do, in addition to being able to simply explore lots of places. Each individual town is larger, on average, than any of those in the FF series which came before.

Graphically speaking, this game is incredible. Not just in the technical aspects, but also in the creativity exercised by the artists in this game. No other Final Fantasy comes close to the wonderful way the artists were able to make this world come alive. Every new area is shockingly refreshing and new. The summons, like FF8, are beautiful, but they aren't long.

The music was pretty good. If I had to pick a part of the game that was weakest, this would be it. But it still good, and much of it did a good job of accompanying what was happening on the screen. It's especially wonderful to listen to various pieces of music after finishing the game and reminiscing about those parts.

Finally, the story was superb. It made sense and what happened near the end of the game was especially interesting. If anything, this game is worth buying just to see Vivi. He's the most incredible character in the entire Final Fantasy series.

You aren't going to find anything revolutionary here. Instead, what you'll find is a well-made, enjoyable game. This is the last Final Fantasy of its kind, and like those before it, it doesn't disappoint!

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