It's really good but gets overrated because it went back to a more lighthearted tone after the GRIM DARK SRS BSNS of VII and especially VIII.
It's really good but gets overrated because it went back to a more lighthearted tone after the GRIM DARK SRS BSNS of VII and especially VIII.
I'm never entirely sure how games that involve shit like half naked body builders owning gaudy casinos, crossdressing and seducing a land lord, worldwide card games that everyone seems to know how to play, ridiculous subweapons like megaphones, dogs and swords that also shoot bullets, and characters like a black military an with a gun for an arm, a remote controlled cat riding a giant stuffed moogle, a ninja played entirely for laughs, a martial artist that stuffs his face with hot dogs, a ditz that loves trains and a sniper that can't shoot for shit get tagged as "grim dark srs bsns".
Yet earlier games that involve war, mass murder, death of people 5 minutes after you meet them, a literal brooding dark knight redemption story, continents getting erased off the map, a demon emperor who dies, is sent to hell then comes back to life because he took over hell, the literal embodiment of DARKNESS being summoned to destroy everything, etc somehow don't get the same treatment. :thinking
FF has always been stupid. If anything the game have gotten more and more lighthearted with totally out there plots, characters and settings until Matsuno penned FF12 to be the most dour entry possible.spoiler (click to show/hide)In the time it took me to write this, FF9 still wouldn't have loaded a random battle. :shh[close]
LIGHT HEARTED AND WHIMSICAL
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DARK AND BROODING
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Squall is a socially akward dork that doesn't know how to interact with people despite actually being well intentioned. His biggest fear is ending up alone despite his best efforts to be friendly, so he chooses to push people away in the first place. He falls in love, resolves to try to change himself and does what he can to protect the people important to him.
Like, I know spin off media likes to flanderize protagonists and zero in on just specific parts of their personality, but it's not like its hard to play their games and see that there's more to them than that.
Zidane has a dark broody moment where he's confronted with the truth that he's just one of a series of clones created to become literal ANGELS OF DEATH. Somehow people forget that part of the story tho.
FF9 is darker than some remember it being. It has a really colorful and whimsical setting, art style in general. But theres a fmv on disc 2 of an entire mountain village thats beautiful, getting wrecked by suicidal magic dolls, manufactured beings.Vivi. His story and arc is the best.
Forgot lil black mage dudes' name, but its always especially sad and terrifying that he's seeing similar peeps used like that.
last two or so discs of 9 are pretty bleak arent they? plus the whole black mage shit
ff games are a bit weird for me in that the only ones i actually remember significant parts of are 8, X and 12
last two or so discs of 9 are pretty bleak arent they? plus the whole black mage shit
ff games are a bit weird for me in that the only ones i actually remember significant parts of are 8, X and 12
i mean on the whole the plot is pretty bleak, with millions of people dying in a war and whole civilizations being wiped out. it just keeps an upbeat tone around the characters is all.
Final Fantasy on PS1 is a great litmus test;
- FF7 attracts the socially stunted
- FF8 attracts sexual deviants
- FF9 is played by intellectuals
Final Fantasy on PS1 is a great litmus test;
- FF7 attracts the socially stunted
- FF8 attracts sexual deviants
- FF9 is played by intellectuals
Final Fantasy on PS1 is a great litmus test;
- FF7 attracts the socially stunted
- FF8 attracts sexual deviants
- FF9 is played by intellectuals
What if you like all three? :snob
Final Fantasy on PS1 is a great litmus test;I can't at all sign up for FF9 being an "Intellectuals" game.
- FF7 attracts the socially stunted
- FF8 attracts sexual deviants
- FF9 is played by intellectuals
Sure it is, until you're sitting there waiting for a minute to spend 2 seconds pushing buttons then wait another minute to see the characters act on your inputs.
Not an issue on remakes.
FF9 :heartbeat
GOOCH.
Blue Dragon, The Last Story, and Lost Odyssey were also all good since he got shitcanned after The Spirits Within.
happy that 2 decades later this still produces debate :lolplay the snes ffs you fgtspoiler (click to show/hide)7>8>9[close]spoiler (click to show/hide)7>8>12>11>9>10[close]spoiler (click to show/hide)11>14[close]