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A203D on 21 October 2010
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ishiki said:
A203D said:
ishiki said:
dtewi said:
TruckOSaurus said:

I got it on PSN months ago and haven't finished it yet... I have problems liking some of the characters (rat lady and fat chef thingy)

Heh, Freya and Quina?

They suck. Almost every character sucks in FF9, except for Zidane and Vivi. Vivi alone is the best character in the entire series though and more than makes up for it.


you're dissing steiner and beatrix >_>? Or you just failed to list, the others In you're favorite game?
That whole Eiko writing a letter and chaos insues was awesome!
WTF DTEWI

tbh, i think had the game been photorealistic it wouldve been a lot better, i think a lot of people switched off for FF9 because either they didnt like FF8, or PS1 was fading, and a lot of people were not used to the style of FF9 after FF7, FF8. i actully think the characters are all very good, even Eiko.

the thing i loved actully about Freya was she was deep, well fleshed out and the writing on the whole was very good because they didnt say stuff like 'hold on baby, your heros on the way', and Qunia was very funny, he/she, just made the game so much more worthwhile. because in FF8, we just had sterotypes of teenagers, and in FF9 everything changed because the characters were more diverse and they very well wrtten, even though they werent realistically drawn, their stories were maturely fleshed out i think.

I completely disagree with almost everything you said except eiko. Photorealistic would have hurt this game imo. Because this game was not, realistic. And the visuals were charming. Making it's visuals more realistic would have taken away it's charm imo.

it depends, personally i think the characters are very realistically driven, for example Dagger, is a young women at a turning point in her life, we actully have a lot of insight into what shes thinking and how she feels like her life is completely out of her control, i think young people feel like that when they come of age.

then we have Steiner who has a type of facade, where he places the devot knight, but in his heart he doubts his actions but he always puts duty before himself. i mean i think Vivi and Zidane had the most depth, but the characters may look cartoony, but theres so much substance behind that that really touches the player. its actully quite similar in some ways to FF4, where Cecil is the main character, but Kain's story is detrimental to the plot.

anyway, i think that FF9 is very good in terms of story and characters, it dosent bother with all the camp hormonal drama of FF13 and FF7 compliation, its about substance over style!. and fair enough people love the visual style, but personally i would have loved it had they have stuck to the orignal Ammano art, imo i think FF9s Ammano work is is finest character designs in the series.