While IX was a Great game it had one really annoying fault with it...

December 10, 2006, 11:16 PM

Which is the simple fact that Zidane Vivi Garnet/Dagger And Steiner are the only ones to get any character development at all. I Mean Beatrix (who is mainly a NPC) Gets developed more than Lets say Quina Or amarant.

Freya - her story ark is breif - after disk 1 there is no further character development at all for her.

Quina - All we know is s/he came with the party to eat the foods of the world - One of the most interesting backstories in a FF game EVER - Not.

Eiko - Shes on the boderline between developed and not - she is more developed than Freya/quina/amarant but way less developed than Zidane/Vivi/Garnet/Steiner/Beatrix

Amarant - WTF?!? he joins zidane so he can figure out why he is so strong, oh and he was a security guard who has like no memory before being one - one word *yawn*

So IMO Square wasted a lot of interesting characters and possibilitys by only breifly developing them, personally because Zidane/Vivi/Garnet/Steiner had more backstory and personality i cared about them more and used them more. I think that if the other characters had been more developed as well FFIX couldve been a more memorable game - Because lets face it whos more memorable Cait Sith Or Freya??

December 13, 2006, 8:00 PM

Well, it's been time when I played FF9 last but as far as I remember I didn't fell this things like foult. They just added some side characters to add to the story, so it can take the all 4 CDs.

December 13, 2006, 8:19 PM

Quote:

Quina - All we know is s/he came with the party to eat the foods of the world - One of the most interesting backstories in a FF game EVER - Not.

Now, I seem to recall a game diary, and near the end, this is what the guy who was writing it had to say:

Negatives:
Quina - Seriously, FUCK OFF! It's like that friend you have who cracks the same joke every time you see him. "Hey man, just broke up with your wife? I EAT FOOD LOLZ!"

Quina was a less-than-stellar character.

December 16, 2006, 9:13 AM

There were secret scenes with character development for Quina and Amarant just plain sucked in every possible way.

December 17, 2006, 7:16 PM

what about Freya?? persoanlly i thought that after disk one character development for freya was minimal - to the point of no existance... anyone else agree?

December 17, 2006, 8:37 PM

The first few hours of Disc Two Freya developed... I forgot what that tree surronded in desert was lol

But I know more of her history was shown there.

December 30, 2006, 2:26 PM

I think that was a concious decision by Square. Inevitably, you're best party is Zidane, vivi, dagger and steiner, maybe Eiko, so that is why they get the best developed backstories(even though Steiner only really has a sidestory with Beatrix, rather than a mysteriou past that lead him into the Knights of Pluto or something.)

BTW, they never REALLY explain why Zidane saw Dagger leaving Madain Sari in Memoria. Obviously, he was probably on the invinceble, but they never come out and say that.

December 30, 2006, 10:55 PM

I always though it was implied that zidane was on the invincible with garland and Kuja maybe after that whole thing was when kuja dumped zidane in gaia

December 31, 2006, 1:09 AM

I could understand Freya's and Eiko's being part of the party but Amarant and Quina?

Not really necessary. Man, they could've substituted a freaking moggle for Quina and a chocobo for Amarant.

I personally perfer Eiko over Garnet because Eiko had a summon that reminded me of FFVIII Griever. Eiko could've played a much more important role in unraveling Garnet's past. But you know, Beatrix could've replaced Eiko. SE could've have Beatrix become the general who tried to right her wrongs under Queen Brahm.

Amarant was definately not needed.

December 31, 2006, 4:08 AM

Well, I kind of agree with some of this, but I found Freya and Amarant to be sufficently developed. Quina was somewhat...well....lets just say BAD. But, I never really even understood why Eiko was in the game, I mean about the ONLY part she plays, storywise, is the whole thing in Alexandria in...disc....2(?). well, she DOES play a minimal part in Madain Sari, but that is negligible.

Also, even though I hardly ever used Freya, I understood her Character development was fairly well developped. And, yes, I may have had the four main characters as my main party, but I also used Amarant a lot as well, most times, I just replaced Steiner with him because he was just awesome.