0 flaws
>extremely slow battles (I'm an unfortunate soul who didn't emulate it)
>awful story after halfway point, not even a plotfag but it goes flaccid on the good stuff it built up at the start
>some characters outright forgotten like Freya and Amarant, especially hilarious given Freya's quote
>retarded "OMG YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FEEL SAD NOW" plot moments
e.g. right after an attack leaving a city destroyed and many people dead, the party hardly reacts until someone come and says "Oh my god.. Garnet.. she.. she..." and I thought the game was finally getting serious and she probably attempted suicide because she couldn't protect her people, turns out she lost her voice lol and the whole party goes "WHAAAAT? NOOOOO HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN"
>terrible, inflexible skill system that makes you have to grind with weaker weapons when better ones are available
>Trance system is executed horribly
>Firaga, Blizzaga and Thundaga are permanently missable
>Zidane is an awful main character. Vivi's existential crisis is actually done decently well and he has reason to feel feels, but Zidane just spergs out over a minor revelation and needs everyone to console his pointless whining, and all of this is rushed in 10 minutes right at the end
>last disc features dude aliens lmao out of nowhere
>Kuja is a shit forgettable villain
>final boss is absolutely ass and literally is the poster child of coming out of nowhere
FF9 was not a great game. It has nice looking cities and backgrounds, active time events are cool as fuck when you get to a new city for fleshing out characters (party member chat and bantz not related to the main story is pure soul in any game), and the music is great.
But it has tons of flaws and doesn't hit the same highs as FF7
HOLY FUCKING BASED
The painfully slow battle system really hurts this game. Also the trance system is retarded.
Bitch never payed for her crimes
Freya > Beatrix
Not a single memorable music track.
FF6 is the better FF game out of them all. FF9 tried but it isn't as great.
>too easy
>too slow
>skill system is dumb
And for a game that was supposed to bring the series back to its roots why the fuck isnt there a job system
that's what happens when you're based
ratfags BTFO lol
this song is not that good, it's too repetitive, but my impression of it might be skewed negatively because it plays during one of the worst scenes in the game
There is. Zidane is a thief, Steiner is a knight, Vivi is a black mage, Garnett is a white mage etc
>super slow
>Disk 2 and 3 filler
>3/4 the cast is not developed enough
>plot "twist" is derivative and weak
>horrible use of the learning system
>there's so little combat you actually have to go out of your way to grind just to get some fights in
>poorly designed cities/dungeons
>bad flow
>villain is lackluster
Pretty much the same flaws as all FF games. Like most FF games, great ideas that are poorly executed.
kino taste
>there's so little combat you actually have to go out of your way to grind just to get some fights in
I take it you played the port then because they drastically reduced the encounter rate
Why does no one ever mention place of memory
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the entire soundtrack is peak soul.
Trance is bad.
Story is well made and well told.
art and monster design is amazing.
Vivi is best character.
Zidane is the best FF protagonist.
All characters are great but Amarant is pretty bad.
Ending is peak kino.
Come on man, really?
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You know a game has shit characters when a talking rat is best girl
That's not a job system
The greatest flaw are the braindead fanboys that game has.
No, I played the PS1 version. There was so little combat that I had to stop and grind at the end of Disk 1 just to learn skills from the starting dagger you get (120 AP). I had fought less than 120 battles all through Disk 1. You spend the vast majority of your time in Disk 1 in various towns or watching cutscenes. Each disk after gets a little more battles, but still nothing comparable to previous FF games.
yeah no
y'know its been a while since i played it but i really dont remember the pace of the fights to be an issue
This sums it all up for me. Well said, user. And even if you do emulate it, battles feel really fucking weird because they are so delayed since everything takes so long from when you input, it gets added to the queue, then executed. FF7 was the start of this but it at least wasn't half as bad and has clear-cut rules about "cutting in line". I feel like Pokemon ended up with the same fate. The original gens did not waste your time with long animations nearly as much.
And what exactly makes Zidane any good?
Go play it for a second or two and remind yourself.
I forgot to add, I doubt this footage is on a PS1. Ontop of this being slow because of animations, on the PS1 it had to load during combat and so often characters would stand in place doing their casting animation as the damn thing loaded.
Same. People always list this as an issue, but I played this game 2 or 3 times and don't remember anything about it being slow.
I think you're talking about VII's fanboys.
>terrible plot
>terrible cast with a few exceptions
>terrible true villain
>another one of those FF games full of cryptic bullshit that forces you buy the official guide with the game if you want a 100% clear
he's a chad that's constantly chasing pussy, doesn't care when he's rejected, immediately moves on. When he realizes he's actually in love with Garnet he goes through a character arc.
He's a good person at heart, isn't morally ambiguous at all, although he's a bit of a pervert, he isn't malicious.
Always looks out for his close friends and even complete strangers.
He isn't a mopey like so many protagonists from 7 onward, always in high spirits. Yes he has his depression episode late game but it only lasts 5 minutes when he's in absolute despair. His friends quickly raise him back up.
DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA
DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA
REE REE REE REE
DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN
DUNNA DUNNA
DUN DUN
DUN DUN
DUN, DUN!
>camera pans wildly around your characters as they load in
DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA
DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA
>ATB bars appear
DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA
>ATBs slooooowly load
DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA
>enemy team is a single imp
Final Fantasy IX.
It's kinda girly.
He doesn't go through a character arc on screen at all. He's loyal to Garnet the entire game, nor are his actions any more morally ambiguous than Aladdin's were. Sure, he's a "street rat," but he's never actually portrayed in any sort of negative light. He isn't offensively bad, so me disagreeing with your assessment is going to seem like I dislike Zidane. I don't, but I find him an incredibly flat and static character. What is supposed to be his arc and development happens at the end of the game where the "big reveal" happens.
speeding up combat and using active instead of wait helps this a lot, but I agree it is way too long, but not game breaking.
you're girly
Anyone get the 1000 jumprope trophy on PS4?
>have a character attack
>animation takes so long everyone else’s atb fills up as it is happening
I love the aesthetic and atmosphere of this game. If only the battles weren't so fucking slow.
isn't near the end of the story when a character arc usually happens? Zidane's arc happens half way through the game, when they all return to Alexandria after Brahne's death Zidane realizes that Garnet is going to be princess, and he really has no reason to stick around anymore, but his love for Garnet is so strong he can't forget about her. He can't shake her and it's driving him mad because he's never had that problem before. It is kinda convenient how the attack on Alexandria brings them back together eventually but hey, it's a fucking story, and way better than any other Final Fantasy.
Freya doesnt expose her little mouse tits
Based Steiner and cringe Mary Sue
That isn't an arc at all because he spends the entire game essentially devoted to her. His arc is supposed to be at the end with his revelation, but it just deflates and disappears.