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Final Fantasy IX

Original title: Fainaru fantajî IX
  • Video Game
  • 2000
  • 12
IMDb RATING
8.8/10
5.7K
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Final Fantasy IX (2000)
ActionAdventureFantasy

When bandits try to kidnap the princess, they discover that it's the princess who wants to be kidnapped. But they are chased by an evil queen and an even more powerful entity.When bandits try to kidnap the princess, they discover that it's the princess who wants to be kidnapped. But they are chased by an evil queen and an even more powerful entity.When bandits try to kidnap the princess, they discover that it's the princess who wants to be kidnapped. But they are chased by an evil queen and an even more powerful entity.

  • Director
    • Hiroyuki Itô
  • Writer
    • Hironobu Sakaguchi
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.8/10
    5.7K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Hiroyuki Itô
    • Writer
      • Hironobu Sakaguchi
    • 45User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    10Ftaren

    The best of the original Playstation era

    Blessed with an innate sense of history, and tinged with a touch of melancholy, this title provides a fond FAREWELL to the OLD style of Final Fantasy. I will miss it, but that is NOT what impressed me the most about this game. It was the nicely wrought story, the most fully fleshed charachters of ANY 32-bit game, the AMAZING artwork, and the way they wove pieces of the series past into the story and environment. The gameplay is the most addictive in the series since 6, which came out here as 3, but was recently re-released as part of Final Fantasy ANTHOLOGY. I enjoyed the VERY SOUL of this game, an aspect that seemed minor in the previous two entries. This game reminds players WHY they loved the series in the first place.....STORY AND PERSONA. The best music and cinematics EVER to Grace ANY 32 or 64 bit system.
    9hellrider

    More fantasy a person can handle

    WOW!!! this games rocks! although plot wise it's not as strong as seven, it more than makes up for this with (in my opinion) far superior gameplay. the magic and physical attacks are equally useful, and the introduction of character classes (white mage, black mage, thief, glutton, knight) is drastic improvement over the other playstation exclusive fantasy's. The final fantasy's are my favourite games on the playstation, and this did not disappoint. The ending has to be seen to do it justice (the same for the last two games for that matter). In one word: Brilliant!
    cheeseboy80

    Good, but short

    This is a pretty good final fantasy game, but the game is pretty short compare to the other final fantasy games for the Playstation. I mean I beaten disc 1 & 2 by one week. On Final Fantasy VII & VIII, it took me weeks to finish the first disc.

    I wasn't very interesting in the plot until disc 3. Princess Garnet is pretty cute for an CGI character and Kuja is as bad as any other Final Fantasy bad guy. Overall this game is a must-have for all Final Fantasy fans.

    I can't wait for Final Fantasy X, XI, and XII for the PSX 2 (or X-box?)
    earthborn44

    The last"true" final fantasy on cd system

    This one takes us back to what we loved from the earlier final fantasy games, before cyberpunk influence & darkness came along. Small cute characters with more facial expression (tho i never liked polygon graphics really) & a more colorful world makes this one closer to the original idea. (i always think that the creators also took in mind the "never ending story" at least in musical aspects (like ff4 which sounds a lot like it)

    & i celebrate i was able to play a final fantasy with better graphics than the old ones. Very nice CG cinematic sequences too. Nice colors everywhere, not the best final fantasy, but very amazing to play. A must if someone asked me!

    The battle system improved over FF7 a lot. Now you can choose more characters & overall faster loading.

    Overall this game is a nice way to go back when ff was more underground & there wasn't posts to put opinions about games, just time to enter a nice imaginary world & have fun until u ended it (& having nothing to do with your life after since the game took so much of your free time!)
    Bungle-9

    Fave game ever

    I haven't even finished this game yet and I already know it's my favourite. What I love most is the great relationships between the characters, especially Garnet/Dagger and Zidane. I got really attached to the good guy characters, and I know that I'll be sad when the whole thing is finished.

    The tale of good vs. evil is so gripping here I can't express how exciting and wonderful it is. I absolutely love the music, especially Garnet/Dagger's beautifully melancholy vocal theme - it's enough to make you cry if you get too attached (like me).

    In my humble opinion, so long as the writing and music of these games keeps up a standard such as this then the series will live for a long time. I reckon they should remake the first few of the series as well, so that todays gamers can see what it was like in the early days but with better graphics etc.....

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has said that out of all of the Final Fantasy games, this is his personal favorite.
    • Quotes

      [Zidane telling Garnet the story of Ipsen and Colin]

      Zidane: Ipsen and his good friend Colin worked at a tavern in Treno. One day, Ipsen got a letter. The letter was so wet from rain that most of the writing was illegible. The only part he could read said "Come back home." Nowadays, we have airships and stuff, but back then, it was really hard to travel. He didn't know why he had to go back, but he got some time off, gathered his things, and set out on his journey home. He walked a thousand leagues through the Mist. Sometimes he was attacked by vicious monsters, but he made it, because his friend Colin was by his side. And then, after much time on the road... He had to ask Colin something: "Why did you come with me?"

      Garnet: And? What was Colin's answer?

      Zidane: "Only because I wanted to go with you."

    • Crazy credits
      After completing the game, and watching the credits, a code may be entered to play blackjack against the computer-- a reference, possibly, to Final Fantasy VI's airship (the "Blackjack").
    • Alternate versions
      In the original PS1 black label release of Final Fantasy 9 the company title is called Squaresoft. However in the PS1 Greatest Hits release version, Android, iOS, PC Steam version. The company title is now called Square-Enix in later versions due to the merger of Squaresoft and Enix back in 2003.
    • Connections
      Edited into Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      Melodies of Life
      Vocals by Emiko Shiratori (English and Japanese versions)

      Composed by Nobuo Uematsu

      Lyrics by Ciomi

      English Translation: Kako Someya, Alexander O. Smith

      Arranger: Shirô Hamaguchi (as Shirou Hamaguchi)

      Producer: Nobuo Uematsu

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    • Release date
      • July 7, 2000 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Final Fantasy 9
    • Production companies
      • Square Company
      • Square Enix Image Studio Division
      • Square Sounds Co. Ltd.
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      • 4:3

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