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| Final Fantasy IX The last installment ever to be released originally for the Playstation, FF9 returned to the roots of Final Fantasy in terms of characters and jobs, yet introduced interesting twists to abilities and other such features. |
May 29, 2007, 8:05 AM
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I didn't Like Trances
I had a few problems with it. Come on Square! Use FF7's Limits and just call them trance. I seriously wasted hours bringing my trance up for tough bosses and then they went off at the easiest enemies in the game.
Also, another thing. Why is it that Zidane gets all these badass powers when he goes trance? Where do these Dyne powers come from? When I first saw it I was like oh, I guess all the characters will get amazing abilities in trance.
THEY DON'T! All they got was upgraded Stats and a few more things.
>:\ Trances were the only problem of FF9.
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May 29, 2007, 9:01 AM
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+ Garnet's trance just increases the probability of having the Eidolon show up and increase attack power.
+ Steiner's trance doesn't give him any abilities...it just doubles his attack power.
+ Amarant's trance causes his current abilities to be used towards ALL allies or enemies instead of just towards one...
+ Vivi and Eiko have the same trance...it allows them to cast two spells instead of one.
+ Freya's trance is very useless...instead of missing one turn during jump, she stays in the air until her trance is over...meaning...if you need her for something vital, she won't be there.
+ Quina's trance is utterly STUPID. All it does is increase the chances of eating enemies.
+ Zidane has the best trance of all the characters. Mostly they deal physical damage.
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May 29, 2007, 9:06 AM
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I just had a crazy thought while I was trying to sleep.
Maybe Zidane's Trance powers come from the fact that he was supposed to be the "Angel of Death" and these powers are what he was supposed to use
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May 29, 2007, 9:10 AM
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Well now that you mention it; yes that's probably the answer to our question. lol.
The other characters have some okay regular abilities...
Believe it or not, Quina has some really handy blue magic...Amarant's flair skills are somewhat handy and they make him a good flexible character in battle.
The other characters have somewhat dull skills...
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May 29, 2007, 9:27 AM
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Quina was great.
He could do 9999 Damage with Frog Squash(You gotta eat alot of Frogs)
I still never used him.
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May 29, 2007, 9:32 AM
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Yeah. I always want to use Quina, but I like having stiener as my strong guy...but steiner is useless without vivi...so I always end up with either:
Zidane, Steiner, Vivi, and Garnet
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Zidane, Vivi, Eiko, and Amarant
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I hardly use the second line up though...
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May 29, 2007, 9:38 AM
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The first lineup you listed is really all you need.
Thief, Fighter, Black Mage, White Mage.
My FF1 Party.
The other characters come and it messes stuff up imo.
My Main Party was Zidane, Vivi, Steiner and Garnet also.
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May 29, 2007, 9:41 AM
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I tried off and on having eiko instead of garnet, since eiko has more powerful summons and magics...but garnet's ability to cast curaga on all members at once was just too handy. XD
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May 29, 2007, 9:55 AM
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I never used Eiko. I didn't liker for some reason
Maybe because Garnet used Traditional old school summons (Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh) and Eiko used ones new to the FF World (Madeen)
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May 29, 2007, 9:56 AM
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Well she had some really powerful summons and magic abilities, but like you say, I like the oldschool reliability of typical white magic. XD
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I didn't Like Trances 
