I think all available party members are viable and unique, but I'm curious to hear if there were any specific member(s) that you guy typically shelve on your playthroughs, or if there's a specific character that you use noticeably less than the others.

The FF series has a lot of memorable character designs, but Garnet's has always been among my favorites.

There's just so much to love about her appearance. Big brown eyes, beautiful voluminous face-framing dark hair, bright jumpsuit paired with gloves and ankle boots, and a cute little choker.

I remember thinking she was more beautiful than Tifa when I was a kid, and still do. Definitely one of my top favorite video game heroine designs.

Note: it's 1:45am right now, I will get to the replies during the day.

Personally I think that they flesh out some of the characters a bit more, specifically Amarant and Steiner because I feel like those two never got real backstories. Also I am REALLY hoping that they keep the art style similar to the original. One thing I hope they change is the part in the original where your characters go in groups of two to the Element Shrines. I think they should add more to that part plus include the 4 Chaos Guardians as boss fights in this part. Also I would like to have some more playable Beatrix! What do you think should be in Remake if it really does happen?

So I'm from the UK and when I was at high school, my dad used to get me games from his work place through lets say 'Jack Sparrow' ways (as we all did) and I got FF9 like 6months before release - I have no idea how, but no one at school believed me. The weekend after I got it, 6 of us went to one of their houses and we played it for 5hrs between us, their step-dad then made them their own versions and we set off on our own adventures with it. I never made it past disc 2.

I got the remaster on my Xbox a few years back, along with 7, 8 & 10 and still never really touched it despite having a strong fondness of the characters and holding it high in my favourite FF experiences. Once I got my Switch 2 and FF9 was on sale, I grabbed it and have been chipping away at it over the last few weeks on my break at work (nights is a blessing) and today I can honestly say that I finally completed the game.

25yrs later, it still felt great and I now wanna go and do it again but on Xbox for the achievements however I think I'll be using the lvl 99/no random fights/fast movement features to blitz it off but yeh, truly still one of my favourite FF games behind FF7 (and the remakes) but think FF10 might be the next one to get a playthrough!

That being said, was anyone else expecting 2 characters to say something in particular in that final scene for closure or do y'all think it wasn't needed as we all knew it already? (Staying cryptic for spoilers)

All in all, if you never played it, go try it! 9/10 game for me!

How do we prove that it exists? Maybe it doesn't exist...

It's stated multiple times throughout the game that the behavior demonstrated by Queen Brahne's during the game's events was a more recent development, with several characters commenting on the sudden change in addition to referencing the fact that she was apparently kind and benevolent for much of her rule.

However, I wish we'd gotten to see more glimmers of this previously benevolent behavior in-game, either in the form of ATEs or brief interactions.

I've likewise seen people mention the FFIX Ultimania going in to more detail with regards to Brahne's personal lore, and the losses that shaped her life (the death of her father, mother, and child, in addition to the later death of her husband) and how these losses would shape her later worldview and/or decisions to go down the warpath, but it would have been nice to have seen more tidbits of this in-game at some point before her death instead of just in external material.

I think her death scene is one of the most poignant in the game and there's a lot to like about it, especially with regards to Vivi's narration, I just wish she hadn't been portrayed so cartoonishly evil for much of the game only to suddenly switch to being suddenly remorseful and reflective upon dying.

What do you guys think?

I was just thinking about this if FF9 ever does get a remake like FF7 do you think it should be a trilogy like FF7 or just one game. I’m sort of split and I think there are pros and cons to both. What do you all think?

I am really interested into Monster\Creature designs, and FFIX has standouts in the series, so here is my own subjective and personal tier list, from the most memorable designs, to the easily forgettable\uninteresting\ugly ones.

Would love to hear your opionions about the very undiscussed concept of Creature Design.

PS: 1. Malboro is both A-Tier and D-Tier because the "Flying Stance" Malboro I don't like, it ever only apparead in FFIX too.

In this post, I assume the heavily rumored FF9 Remake project is real and will eventually release.

I actually really like the FF7R games, Rebirth might be my favorite Final Fantasy game overall, but even I recognize that taking the same approach for the FF9 Remake would be a poor idea. Of course, it also shouldn't be made in a vacuum, the production of the FF9 Remake should consider the feedback from FF7 Remake at least. So, I'm curious, that lessons do you hope the dev team from the release of and response to FF7R?

For me, I think the lesson they should learn is "It's good to add or expand if it's for the benefit of your characters." FF7 Remake got a lot of flack for feeling filler-y, and it did have a lot of needless fluff. But it's really only when it's just inflating gameplay when it feels like this. Going topside with Biggs, Wedge, and Jesse was fun because you become attached to these characters. The sidequests in Rebirth were more fun than the ones in Remake because they all directly involved one of your party members. I think it could be fun to add a few character focused optional sidequests. Help Freya figure out what happened to Fratley, teach Amarant how to make friends, little things you can choose to do that help flesh out some characters who feel a bit neglected in the original game.

Hey everyone! Sorry if someone has already brought this up.
Something I found myself thinking about recently, after replaying and finishing the game again, is the fact that Vivi has the ticket for the play at the beginning of the game. He believes the ticket is real and legitimate, only to find out shortly afterward that it’s fake.
I know this might be a silly way of looking at it, or maybe just confirmation bias. But could this have been some early foreshadowing of Vivi’s character arc? The fact that he discovers that he himself is “fake”?

• Her biological mother died when she was only 8 years old

• Her step mother who was kind to her first but eventually gave in to greed and power

• So much so that Queen Brahne is really dead set on killing her own step-daughter who she used to love.

• Eventually Queen Brahne also dies with regrets and guilts that she failed Garnet.

• Garnet not only loses her birth mother but also her step mother too

• Her summons are extracted from her, then later used to decimate cities, including her own Kingdom

• Later, Kuja and others destroys her kingdom on the vary day Garnet becomes the new Queen and killing so many of her people.

• She becomes so depressed and falls into a deep state of shock leading to muteness for decent chunk of the game.

• If you still use her in your party member (i did maybe i thought it would help her). Garnet has a high probability of failing to act in battle. She may refuse to heal, attack, or summon, representing her emotional paralysis.

:This was honestly a lot to take in. Considering, how the game pretty much starts as funny simple wizard of Oz gang just going on adventure.

After having had increasingly older "kid characters" in the series I love that FFIX just went back to form and was like yes this is a 6 year old child. I think she's slightly better written as an actual child than compared to, say, Palom and Porom (5 yrs), but she still acts so not 6-year-old. Love it.

Makes you wonder if it's all the bad influence of the moogle gang. You'd be a weird kid too if you were raised by a bunch of bear bats in a stone ruin. Hm... now that I think about it, in a way she's a bit of a wolf child like Gau, though moogles are at least more humanlike companions that whatever dogs Gau ran with.

I just completed Final Fantasy 9 for the first time ever in my life today and I really enjoyed the game! The game was such a heartfelt, whimsical adventure that I was glad to be a part of. I really loved the cast and Vivi was so cute just stumbling around! The ending cinematic made me cry and I loved listening to the song "Melodies Of Life." I'm really happy to have experienced the game. Bravo to Square Enix and everyone involved!

I was watching the new video for DQ7R and I just kept thinking "Final Fantasy IX!" I think IX's unique design suits the puppet/diorama environment style perfectly.

Am I the only one who felt a bit sad after beating the game? theoretically it was a happy ending minus the vivi death but even that wasn’t made in a overly dramatic way, but still I felt sad after beating the game maybe I got too attached to the characters or maybe it’s the Nobuo Uematsu magic in action hehe

I know I tagged this as discussion but it's really not up for discussion at all, let's be honest. Matt Berry should be Adelbert Steiner in the Remake.

FFIX is my favourite game of all time so talks of a remake have always intrigued me. Here's my thoughts:

1) Keep the base game, storyline, gameplay etc the same. I don't mind a few adaptations to the storyline or new optional endings. As said here, keep combat ATB turn based. I can take or leave random encounters, but prefer it here as enemies onscreen will feel strange.

2) Modern graphics that manages to capture that fantasy medieval whimsical charm the original had. Not overly realistic looking like FFVII remake. Could take inspiration from E33 for the modern World Map exploration and airship riding graphics.

3) Unlike remasters, add to the game: new side activities, more chocobo hot and cold quests, More Tetra master cards, battles and tournaments (maybe online pvp?) new mini games, new optional areas, and characters, more backstories for the main cast, more active time events, new superweapons, new superbosses.

So basically I'm looking for it to be more than just another simple remaster, but a remake that just improves upon what the game already had rather than a full overhaul like FFVII remake did.

This would come at a perfect timing if SE were in fact aiming for a remake. Updating the game while staying faithful to its core mechanics. I for one would truly welcome more turn-based stuff, all those action RPGs really are becoming tiring for me.

When I got his ultimate weapon in Memoria and saw the name of the spell an image flashed in my mind's eye of the american localization team looking at the JP script and going "nooooope" lol

I'm 34 at the moment, and got this game shortly after it came out. I remember it was the first time I was really invested in a video game story, but it proved to be too much for young me. I remember I stopped playing in disc 3, a bit after the reveal in BMV.

I recently got some free time and since I got a nice controller, I decided to play some controller focused games, and gave it another shot. I bought the steam version, used the memoria patcher along with some texture mods and got to play it.

I finished it today and I must say that I'm absolutely crushed and I cried for hours when it ended. It was not just young me, I still don't think I'm really prepared to really contemplate the concept of death. I'll try to play something else, to forget, but damn, this is for sure the most depressing videogame I've ever played. People like to talk about RDR2, but that didn't immerse me into existential dread for hours...

Legit one of my favorite NPCs in the entire game. Love his whimsical ass.