Most of the old school final fantasy fans loved this game. (I'm talking, if you first got addicted way before VII and loved them) If you're first final fantasy that you fell in love with was VII, then you probably wouldn't like this game. It has the old school feel to it, which I love.

I liked IX a lot. It was nice to see a game set in a traditional fantasy setting after VII and VIII. Don't get me wrong, I liked those games, but they were more sci-fi than fantasy. I was also very amused by all the references to past games.

I really loved the story and the characters of this game. It was nice to have a more lighthearted character after Cloud and Squall. And Vivi is the cutest thing ever. Freya is just awesome and very well developed. It was also fun to have a goofy knight as opposed to the traditional badass knight.

Kuja is one of my favorite villians of the series. I mean, the guy started an entire world war! That's more than Sephiroth ever did. And what's not to like about a guy that wears a thong and trys to destroy the world?

This game by far has the best side quests. I expecially loved the chocobo hunting game.

People say this game is more childish, but what's so childish about:
-Dagger's mother trying to kill her in order to steal her eidolons.
-Vivi pondering his existence and is terrified of dying, several towns are bombed and destroyed.
-Zidane finds out about his orgins and nearly loses it, Eiko and Dagger summon a very power eidolon (Alexander) in order to stop bahamut but end up destorying the city.
-Zidane, the main character, is a thief, and you start out the game by kidnapping a princess and succeeding.
-Freya's lover returns with no memory of her and never gets it back.
-Blank is petrified through half the game after saving everyone.
-Black Mages don't understand the concept of death and wonder when their dead friends will wake up.
-All through out the game, most of the characters are afraid of dying. In the end after the fight with Kuja, Necron comes out as death personified. You fight this battle but you technically don't win because death can never be avoided, but the characters decide to keep fighting and never give up. (Meaning that they will live as long as they can)

This game is a lot darker than people give it credit for!

The ending is also great. It was nice to have a happy ending.

VII was my first as well but IX is my favorite.

There's no reason to hate the game unless you hate good storylines, characters, worlds, graphics and music.

Ω Xenogias Ω

Well I can compare a few things with FFVI and FFIX...-

1) Kefka & Kuja both betrayed those they were working for (Emperor Gastahl & Queen Brahne).


Kefka wasnt betrayed by Gastahl, in fact, Kefka absorbed the power of the three statue and murdered Gastahl in cold blood with a powerful magic spell and threw him off the floating island - SHIIROW

I dont know why people over rate 7 so much... half the people who rave over the game havent played a single FF before it... I was a role player back in 1987 with the NES and Master System... I played the very first Final Fantasy... and four... and six... though with the re-numbered SNES versions... Honestly seven seemed incomplete and wraught with typos and text screw ups... one part in the game made absolutely no sense whatsoever... and dont get me started on eight...

But back to the topic at hand... nine was a magnificent game, it was easy and pretty linear... and anyone who spent enough time getting techniques and leveling could easily make it to the end... there was similiarities to six sure, but its not the same game...

Personally, I can't understand why people think FFIX is such a bad game. I mean yeah, of course its not like FFVII at all, but eh idk. VI and IX are probably the best in my book. I never really started liking VII until this year, I actually sat down and paid attention to the storyline and such. My recent discovery though is that I hate FFVIII....gah.



OK that went a little off, sorry about that. Yeah about FFIX being too childish? like Rydia posted, this game seems to have more mature situations than most of the games in the series; disregarding the graphics of course.

I grew up with FF 7 But when 9 came out i got just as addicted they are easily the best two games of them all

Heh, I'm an old schooler and I didn't really care for this game. I just couldn't get into the characters at all. There was too much "Hollywoodized forced in humor" for me. Every time I see Steiner I am reminded of Jar Jar Binks...