How does FF9 hold up today?

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RingoGaSuki said:

Am now 4 hours in and still enjoying it. Gameplay in battle is definitely not as matched to my tastes as any Dragon Quest, but it's a fun RPG with a good story and likable characters (Vivi is cool).

Will definitely check VII out when it comes, hopefully they bring the first 6 too, I'm not big on ARPGs, so I'll be skipping XII. Is X/X-2 a turn-based RPG or an ARPG? I'll check it out if it's the former.

FFX and X-2 are turned-based. FFX has a very nice feature where you can swap your party members in and out in a battle which means you can level everyone evenly pretty easily. X-2 has a silly exterior but it's a very solid game underneath, the dress spheres are basically a job system.

Also FFXII is still turned based, your characters will wait a set amount of time before attacking but the gambit system automates a lot of it which made it less interesting to me.