Final Fantasy IX - PS1

If you are a gamer and especially if you like RPGs you must know the Squaresoft series: Final Fantasy.

So in this post I'm talking about the IX game in the series.

I got the game in the Platinum edition for PS1 even if I don't have the console, but my PS2 has retro-compatibility so I can play games for the previous console.

You cannot say by the pictures but the case is big! It has 4 CDs!

You can not only imagine how big the game is but also what the tecnology got from going from CDs to DVDs.

Now more into the game...

Many say that the great and most beautiful game in the series is FF VII (which I'm playing on my PSP).

I'll be talking about the Cloud and friends game in future post, but from what I've played from both I can understand the feelings so many people have for VII but I must say that IX is as good as it and it might be my favourite Final Fantasy game.

We start with Vivi. The Mage in the game.

He's a strange figure but you almost fall in love with him in at the very beginning!

You get to look around the kingdom's town with Vivi learning to look for many objects hidden all over the scenario and also learning how to play the card game (Tetra Master) that works like a mini-game throughout the entire game.

And talking about the scenarios...They are simply breath taking!

I know they were made for a 32bits concole but they truly are one of the most detailed and beautiful scenarios you get to see in a game for PS1 and even for PS2 consoles!

They look like they were hand painted.

After walking around the city you get to enter the castle where a party is taking place.

A traveling theater is performing there but they are not your normal actors people. They intend to kidnap the Princess Garnet!

The thing is that in the middle of it the Princess herself wants to be kidnapped!

One of my favourite scenes occurs during the theater presentation in which you have to simulate a fight and you have to press the right buttons when they appear on the screen. I know this happens a lot in the games, even more in the current games (quick time events) but it is so into context and well made that I repeated the scene a lot of times. Even more because the better you perform the better the audience cheers and you get more money.

You can see that this game is all about the little details.

After this there is trouble all around to make the theater troup flies off the castle in one piece along side with the Princess.

The 'Rusty' comes along too. He is the Princess guard chiefe but he's a failure.

That's when we get to know better the main character of the game: Zidane.

Also we get to know the rest of the theater crew when the ship they were traveling crashes into Evil Forest.

Zidane, the Princess, 'Rusty' and Vivi go into the forest and get in trouble and they are helped by one of Zidane friends which ends up being 'stoned' in the forest.


That made me sad...and if I'm that touch at so early in the game I cannot imagine how it will be in the end!

After that keep their journey together.

I already went into Ice Cave where we meet some evil mage birds that want to stop us. But I did it! And now I'm in some town where we found out that they send weird packages to the Castle.

Something is going on...

The battles work like the other FF games, with ATB bars that need to get filled in order for us to attack.

But if in ither FF games I usually don't like the battles soundtrack but this one I like a lot!

Besides this you get to interact with other FF commons like Choccobos and Moggles. The Moggles are important in the game because it's through them you can save the progress and learn some tips about the game. Also we get to deliever some mail they send to each other. I still have to understand what we must do so.

I know I'm just at the beginning of the journey but I'm already touched by the game.

This might be one of my favourite FF or probably my favourite.

I'll keep you informed about my next adventures.

Good games!