The PlayStation era had seen the proliferation of the Final Fantasy series all over the world, and launched Square into a new golden era. While series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi would only be a distant producer for Final Fantasy VIII while we was directing the Final Fantasy movie in Hawaii, he knew that he wanted to oversee another game in the series. The “fantasy” was falling by the wayside, and he wanted to use the technology used for VII and VIII to fully realize the classical style of earlier installments. But with the PlayStation 2 beating the game to market, and international players having a specific idea of the series in their head from VII and VIII, or being feeling let down by the latter, the deck seemed stacked against Final Fantasy IX…
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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
1:51 – Part I – Hawaii
11:52 – Part II – We Know What You’re Hiding
25:20 – Patreon
25:33 – Part III – Final Fantasy IX
45:10 – Gameplay: Back to Basics, With A Twist
1:04:13 – Minigames, Sidequests, and Superbosses
1:16:55 – Strategy Guide?
1:20:38 – Vivi Ornitier
1:31:49 – Adelbert Steiner
1:38:04 – Freya Crescent
1:42:36 – Quina Quen
1:47:49 – Eiko Carol
1:54:44 – Amarant Coral
2:07:54 – Why Do We Live?
2:20:32 – Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII
2:33:18 – Zidane Tribal
2:46:02 – Melodies of Life (and Death)
2:58:34 – Terra & the Cycle of Life and Death
3:18:15 – You Are Not Alone
3:31:41 – Kuja, Fate Defied
3:42:11 – The Darkness of Eternity
4:01:04 – Until We Meet Again
4:08:40 – Personal Thoughts
4:13:14 – Part IV – Absence, Aberrations, & Alterations
4:29:40 – Part V – The Crystal’s Legacy
4:50:04 – Epilogue & To Be Continued…
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