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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THIS GAME DOES'NT DESERVE 5 STARS - IT DESERVES 100 !!!!, 6 Aug 2002
By A Customer
This is a truly jaw dropping eye opening gob smacking belter of a game. You don't play FFIX, you get picked up whirled round the room and then sucked straight into the midst of a load of black mages in a medieval dream-like world with magnificent eidolons to summon, great palaces, flying airships and a young lad with a tail called Zidane Tribal. This was the second RPG game I had bought, the first Final Fantasy game. Before I had stuck to games like Spyro, Ape Escape, Tomb Raider and Jak and Daxter, but this was something totally new.Following buying this, I was enjoying it so much I decided to buy FFVII, and I gradually acquired all of the games from FFIV to FFX. Although FFVII and FFX came close to FFIX, they aren't as good. In both of those two, there are a couple of good characters, as well as the magic of Square that is in all FF games. In FFVII there is Cloud, Cid and Sepiroth, who are really strong characters, and in FFX, they have used the formula again so they have all got quite individual characters, but the strongest are Wakka, Lulu, Auron and of course Tidus. In FFIX, however, you can sympathise or like in a different way each of the characters - they all have very strong characters and attitudes.
You have - Zidane, who is almost always cheerful and optimistic, and who falls in love with every lady he meets and does his best to cheer Garnet up. Garnet, who is depressed a lot of the time, because her kingdom's been blown to bits and her mother killed, but she tries to be a good queen and put on a brave face. Steiner, who is stuffy, old-fashioned and is utterly devoted to the princess, and although he doesn't like Zidane at first, comes to be more relaxed and like him more as time goes on. Vivi, who you can't help being sorry for, as the little black mage doesn't know whether he exsists, and gets upset when hundreds of black mage dolls like him are found destroying places, working for the evil Kuja. Quina, who is very strange and lives only to eat lots of tasty food from all round the world, and seems a bit of an annoyance to Zidane. Freya, who is also upset (everyone is in FF games, because they've mainly got a dark past or something bad happens to them), because the love of her life went away, and when he finally returns he can't remember her at all. Eiko, who (you've guessed it!) is also quite unhappy inside, but she puts on a bright face and is very bouncy and spirited. All her family is dead and she lives in the empty shell of a town called Madain Sari with her pet moogle and moogle friends. At six, she is the youngest character, two years younger than Vivi. and finally; Amarant, who is a loner, who fights first and asks questions later. He is rude and rough, and thinks he can handle things on his own. He rejects the idea of working in a group, but later softens a little, and co-operates with the others. The graphics are simply stunning, the cut-scenes are breathtaking, and the emotions shown by the characters are so realistic, that the characters could well be live people if they were in modern dress. The in - game graphics aren't quite as good, but the backdrops are beautiful, and the characters move without glitches and smoothly. The music score suits the game perfectly, the medieval music and Dagger's song suit the atmosphere, which is a relief as it would be awful to spoil an otherwise perfect game with bad tuneless music. I have completed this game with all Chocobo treasures, defeated Master Quale, Ozma and Hades, uncovered the secret of the eidolons, delivered all Mognet letters, received Excalibur, known how to get Excalibur II (get to Disc 4 in under 12 hours - it is at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Invincible),found all 12 Stellacio coins, found Ultima Weapon, learnt to summon Ark ..... the list could go on and on - there is no end to the sub-quests in FFIX, as well as the main story there is always something you need to put on your "Stuff to be doing" list. I am sure that I have missed out loads of sub-quests, as some are complex and hidden, while some are presented to you to do. Overall this is the best game I have ever played on any console and it will take any time up to 70 hours to complete if you try to do everything. The only two tiny flaws are a) the random encounters can be annoying after a while and b)when digging for Chocobo treasures it can be very tedious when you don't find any for ages. These flaws are tiny however, and the good points outweigh the bad so much that the scales tip over to the good side. Anyone who doesn't own this game has my sympathy and deepest regrets, and anyone who doesn't like it should get their head checked because they have obviously either had their brain stolen or they are an escapee from a mental hospital.
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