Mythmaker1 said:
artur-fernand said:
AZWification said:
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We finally agree on something. FFIX is indeed the best one.
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I don't know if it is nostalgia or what, but I really can't find anything bad in FFIX. The graphics are WAY better than FFVII and FFVIII, the music is awesome, the battle system works well, the story is wonderful.
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I assure you it's not nostalgia. I've beaten the game without any nostalgia attached to it, and loved every bit of it. For a 32-bit game, the animations are incredibly fluid, and the game is so goddamn charming. The story, while simple, is excellent.
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I consider it to be one of the best game's I've played. That said, I found fault in a few things.
-The combat is too slow. That might seem childish, but it takes way too long for guages to fill, and the longer fights were almost unbearable before I got Haste.
-The Limits were really irritating. You had almost no control over them, which made them basically useless without painstaking preparation.
-Trying to escape from battle is nearly impossible until later in the game. Too many times I ran into monsters I couldn't fight, and couldn't run away from.
-The story hits a few snags, and some plot points are never properly resolved or explained.
-As far as I know, the card battle game was completely useless. Not a big one, but I really see no point to it.
-The end of the game comes out of nowhere and doesn't make a lot of sense.
It's easy to put these aside, and the game is easily a high-9 for me, but it's not perfect.
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Funnily enough, I agree with most of your complaints.
-While I'm very much aware the game is pretty slow, that has never bothered me. Ever. Not even in my first playthrough. I'm not sure why that is.
- Trance is easily the aspect of the gameplay that I find the most flawed. Making thwm activate automaticaly was a bad decision, I can't remember a single time when the thing activated when I actually needed it.
- To be fair, every single rpg it's kinda hardto escape from enemies that are too powerful. Never had that kind of problem though.
- I'm perfectly fine with the story, can't remember a single thing I didn't enjoy about it.
- The card minigame was pretty boring and had no effect on the actual game, yes. But Triple Triad requires a lot of time to give results/rewards, so...
- I assume you're talking about the final boss? Yes, it does comes out of nowhere, and it's not clear if he did anything on the plot of the game. I really enjoyed the ending itself though.
I'm not afraid to give this game a 10/10.
