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Anonymous08/30/25, 12:05No.3835720
Final Fantasy IX is a game you either love or hate. Which camp are you on?
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Anon08/30/25, 12:10No.3835722
it's ok
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Anon08/30/25, 12:50No.3835730
It's my favorite Final Fantasy game
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Anon08/30/25, 13:36No.3835747
It's pretty good. A little too easy for my taste. Once you unlock auto-haste and auto-regen you've basically won the game.
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Anon08/30/25, 13:54No.3835759
It’s highly overrated. I would rate it below any of the other PSX or SNES era FFs.
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Anon08/30/25, 19:06No.3835924
I love it but I also feel like it's overrated. It feels like when people say it's their favorite it's because they want to look sophisticated (while talking about video games).
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Anon08/30/25, 19:25No.3835937
I hate it because the ATB is the loosest one in the whole series and has the most abusable way to out-turn opponents by stalling their ATB bars during animations. If the screws were tightened up and the turn inequality was fixed, it would immediately have a positive effect on the game's balance and challenge.
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Anon08/30/25, 23:18No.3836040
Its not my favorite but its up there. It has a few problems but overall I think its a pretty damn good game. And has really good storytelling for a Final Fantasy game
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Anon08/31/25, 02:13No.3836102
Love it. This was the Only FF game I owned as a child. I didn't play any others until I was an adult and so I thought the rest of the series was similar in aesthetic. Naturally, I was pretty shocked when I booted up FF7 for the first time and it looked like Blade Runner.
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Anon08/31/25, 02:19No.3836104
No, I think it’s good, just not as overwhelmingly good as 7 or 8 (I started at 7, don’t come at me)
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Anon08/31/25, 04:20No.3836157
Love the first 2 discs.
Neutral towards the 3rd.
Fucking hate the 4th.
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Anon08/31/25, 04:37No.3836166
IX is my fav of the ones I have played.
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Anon08/31/25, 05:24No.3836187
I haven't beaten it yet, but where I'm at I honestly couldn't answer. I really like it, but at the same time, the characters have been stuck in their existential crisis without any attempts to grow so it feels like the story isn't going anywhere AND the battles are becoming aggravatingly slow. So I don't know.
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Anon08/31/25, 12:59No.3836327
I don't hate it, but I just could never get into it. Which is odd considering I liked FF7 and FF8. I guess the characters, story, world don't really appeal to me and the battles feel like a slog. The game also feels like it runs worse than FF7 and FF8.
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Anon08/31/25, 13:09No.3836330
For me it was the culmination and perfect end to the series. In the end I like 6 and 3 a little more overall, but 9 is near perfect and a wonderful blend of the older and newer games. I was so satisfied after it I stopped playing the series, though I do still kind of want to try 12 now.
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Anon08/31/25, 19:09No.3836483
love. blue text bubble give me the ick though
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Anon08/31/25, 20:02No.3836509
>BUT IT'S SLOW BUT THE ANIMATIONS BUT THE LOAD TIMES
yeah well maybe you should stop being a zoomer with 0 attention span and enjoy looking at the things happening on the screen
alternatively you can just take out your phone and watch tiktoks while you play the game
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Anon08/31/25, 20:22No.3836524
>lame main character
>lame party members
>lame story
>lame twist
>lame world
>lame villains
>lame load times and slow animations
>lame minigames
>extremely lame superboss
>lame shit like Excalibur 2 gated by playtime
It’s just a weak game. Goofy-ass 8 is a better game than it, much less the series peak games like 5, 6, 7, or Tactics. I see no reason why I would ever replay 9.
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Anon08/31/25, 20:28No.3836531
More like Final Fantasy 9 seconds wasted before every attack.
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Anon08/31/25, 20:32No.3836536
Took a while but I finally found this relevant post.
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Anon08/31/25, 20:55No.3836548
It's good. Freya and Amarant just needed more presence in the plot and the battle speed could had been faster. But otherwise is a pretty good RPG.
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Anon09/01/25, 13:42No.3837068
It was a nice change of pace from the more serious tone of FF8. I wish the characters were more memorable. Vivi stands out as the one character that's really stood the test of time.
It was Squares worst offence for "buy the guide" sidequests and puzzles.
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Anon09/01/25, 18:34No.3837260
Its ok, think its hyped up way more than how good it actually is.
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Anon09/02/25, 00:11No.3837409
IX is my favorite Final Fantasy of all time, X is second, VIII is third, and VII is fourth.
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Anon09/02/25, 00:31No.3837414
Neither. I liked it. The ending almost made me choke up. I have no intention of playing it again, though.
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Anon09/02/25, 08:52No.3837606
It's legit the weakest PS1 FF game as a game.
Main reason people like it is the setting, aesthetic and a few of the characters (mainly Vivi, Zidane, Freya and to a lesser extent Garnet).
If you don't feel strongly about any of these things to the point where you can overlook a mountain of issues you're not gonna have a great time.The poor pacing, weak combat, tedious leveling and relative aimlessness are the big offenders. Most of the cast, including the ones people like, are all slow burns too.
It all results in a very slow and tedious game.
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Anon09/02/25, 13:30No.3837706
Love it, my favorite.
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Anon09/02/25, 13:55No.3837722
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Anon09/02/25, 14:47No.3837754
IX is my favorite, possibly due to nostalgic reasons, but I wish it was more open. You don't really get free reign until you get the Blue Narciss, and even that is somewhat limited until you get the Hilda Garde 3. It's a shame it takes three discs before you can freely choose your party and go around the world at your leisure.
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Anon09/02/25, 14:56No.3837762
I think most titles feel very janky to play but it was good for its gen
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Anon09/02/25, 15:16No.3837782
It is the best one, it is a high note.
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Anon09/02/25, 19:54No.3837948
6> 9 > 11( if you played pre abyssea) > 10 > 7 > 11(post) > rest of the series which isn’t worth discussing
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Anon09/02/25, 20:31No.3837963
>they're still arguing about sales
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Anon09/02/25, 23:17No.3838022
I'm a "fanboy," I love this game.
But I agree gameplay and story are significantly worse than VII and VIII. Materia and junctioning provided more interesting options and keep you more involved with party management. IX ultimately turns into "spam the character's one OP ability" despite there being a plethora of other options. Once you get auto-regen you basically can't die.
I enjoy the atmosphere and treasure hunting / exploration but I have no delusions about the gameplay or story being as good or better than the previous 2 FFs.
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Anon09/03/25, 14:13No.3838283
>Final Fantasy IX is a game you either love or hate.
No, it's a game that many of its fans massively overrate. They make a lot of really retarded claims and this provokes a lot of reaction.
But as a whole it's not terrible if you can get past the obnoxious characters and other downsides.
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Anon09/03/25, 14:51No.3838306
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Anon09/03/25, 17:43No.3838408
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Anon09/03/25, 21:48No.3838602
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Anon09/04/25, 07:24No.3838858
It’s impressive what kind of garbage takes retards itt are coming up with to explain why they don’t like this game
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Anon09/04/25, 10:05No.3838892
i would respond but i'm unfortunately waiting for the random encounter battle to finish
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Anon09/04/25, 14:48No.3839019
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Anon09/04/25, 14:53No.3839023
I've realized that a major problem (possibly the principal problem) of attempting to discuss FF on this board is not only that there's a ton of youngsters who weren't around when the games came out, but most didn't even play the original versions at all. I'd wager that most of this board played the sundry ports/remakes/etc on different platforms, with all kinds of shit added, removed, or changed, which makes them difficult to discuss.
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Anon09/04/25, 23:23No.3839272
I'm honestly just glad they fixed the mistake of 8.
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Anon09/05/25, 05:59No.3839442
Love it. I can acknowledge it has a few legit flaws like battle speed and a few I consider to be stupid complaints but come down to opinion like cast design but I think it's positives are great.
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Anon09/05/25, 08:33No.3839482
the truth as to why video games will never be treated as art is actually very simple: it is because gamers do not understand the idea of subjectivity. they go "thing function in way that me not like. 1/10. bad video game." and try to argue which children's toy is closer to their vision of what is closest to being objectively the "correct way to make a video game" and any deviation takes points off of that. and also you're all retarded and gay, full offense.
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Anon09/05/25, 15:36No.3839612
General Beatrix
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Anon09/05/25, 17:38No.3839663
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Anon09/05/25, 19:42No.3839714
I thought it had good writing as a teenager. But after I replayed it recently I realized that it was hard carried by the amazing music. Everything else is just decent unfortunately.
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Anon09/05/25, 20:23No.3839731
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Anon09/06/25, 07:55No.3839931
>very comfy game
>everyone gets upset
very strange
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Anon09/06/25, 14:47No.3840037
Im in both
Love the music, story, characters, setpieces
Hate the gameplay and the card minigame
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Anon09/06/25, 15:01No.3840049
When kuja capttures you the game kinda goes to shit for 10 hours
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Anon09/06/25, 15:08No.3840053
>Final Fantasy IX is a game you either love or hate.
Is it really? I think people who would hate FFIX are people who don't like JRPGs to begin with. Personally I like it a lot but it's not on my FF top 5.
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Anon09/06/25, 15:12No.3840055
Its almost unplayable because of how slow the combat is even for ATB standards
I wish the remake was real
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Anon09/06/25, 21:24No.3840189
this is the objective top 5 Final Fantasy list
>#1 - Final Fantasy IX
>#2 - Final Fantasy X
>#3 - Final Fantasy VIII
>#4 - Final Fantasy VII
>#5 - Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
I would play X-2 over anything XII and later, at least I get to visit Spira again despite some of the cringe the game has to offer
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Anon09/06/25, 22:01No.3840203
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Anon09/07/25, 13:30No.3840503
It's a fine swan song to FF, but I don't love it that hard.
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Anon09/07/25, 13:39No.3840507
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Anon09/07/25, 16:45No.3840593
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Anon09/07/25, 20:40No.3840687
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Anon09/07/25, 22:25No.3840713
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Anon09/07/25, 23:30No.3840762
Unironically, any game that returned to the God inspired system of using MP instead of spamming Draw like fifty times would have been better than FF8, which had the BEST concept (magical commandos was based). I don't know who came up with the inferior subhuman draw system, but if I had a time machine, I would skip stopping the Holocaust and instead beat the man who pitched the idea of defying MP to death in front of the other Japs in that pitch meeting and said to them, "if you don't do MP for the rest of your games for eternity, MacArthur's descendants will firebomb you twice as hard as he did."
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Anon09/08/25, 07:33No.3840950
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Anon09/09/25, 04:43No.3841483
Why did mist only exist on the starting continent at the beginning of the game? Why not everywhere?
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Anon09/09/25, 06:59No.3841506
just post the sex rats toes already.
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Anon09/09/25, 09:24No.3841539
>people who play jarpigs sperging out bcuz their attention span can't tolerate waiting a few seconds for a battle to start
pottery. fucking unbelievable pottery. This thread is full of the kind of people who click on YouTube Shorts and have to keep spamming the "replay" button because they couldn't pay attention to 30 full seconds of clickbait the first time around.
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Anon09/09/25, 15:30No.3841684
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Anon09/10/25, 03:23No.3841990
its ok. Kind of falls apart at the end
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Anon09/10/25, 13:17No.3842215
its bad. But the ending is kind of great
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Anon09/10/25, 13:51No.3842232
I played this game for the first time just last year on original hardware and the load times didn't bother me at all *shrugs*
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Anon09/10/25, 14:40No.3842259
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Anon09/11/25, 03:06No.3842729
It's better than 8, and maybe as good as 10, but 6 and 7 are still better.
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Anon09/11/25, 15:44No.3842961
Wasnt there a mod to make stealing 100% chance? I think I heard of such a thing, that would make it playable
Most I remember about FF9 is sitting on bosses for an hour to steal shit
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Anon09/12/25, 13:42No.3843364
Your autism to collect every possible item in the game is not a failure of game design, its a failure of your genetics
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Anon09/12/25, 14:54No.3843403
I love it but I've also only ever beaten it once because I tend to fall off during disk 3. It's not the best-paced FF
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Anon09/15/25, 08:49No.3844602
>hate
what do people hate about it, other than ditching the sci-fi settings of the previous few titles.
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Anon09/15/25, 15:19No.3844710
I've never finished a Final Fantasy game
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Anon09/15/25, 15:43No.3844728
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Anon09/15/25, 15:50No.3844738
I've tried many times to get into FFIX and I just can't do it. I don't think there is a single thing I like about the game. The battles are atrociously slow, the story and characters do not grab me at all and the art direction is ugly imo. Which is kind of frustrating because I always see FFIX praised and highly ranked. I know FFVIII is quite divisive, but I honestly think it does everything better down to the card game.
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Anon09/17/25, 22:07No.3845937
Best one along tactics advance, ffvi and ffvii
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Anon09/19/25, 23:49No.3846970
I'm in neither. Just found it boring for some reason, even though I like a lot of the other FF games. Tried playing through the game about 3-4 times now. Every single time I get up to somewhere around Blackmage village and unlocking summoner girl then start feeling so bored I lose all motivation to keep playing.
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Anon09/21/25, 04:36No.3847535
Don't hate it. Dropped it about 30% into disc 1, even when a tried to replay it at various points in my life. It is fanatically boring in every respect. Garnet is a cutie though.
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Anon09/21/25, 06:23No.3847569
Were we robbed?
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Anon09/24/25, 05:24No.3849221
Why is Quina so useless?
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Anon09/24/25, 06:44No.3849238
I'm in the meh camp, it's not bad, but I prefer 7 and 10 over 9
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Anon09/24/25, 08:47No.3849252
>equipment skill grinding is boring
>minigames all suck
>party swaps force you to lower levels and more skill grinding
>late character addition far too late
>story kind of whatever
>trance is useless
I've tried playing it so many damn times but I just cannot push through to the end it's so annoying to play.
>7 straight shoot of just pure fun
>8 short game and far too easy but cool in spite of this
>9 pure slog and the combat feels so fucking slow
I don't know what went wrong
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Anon09/25/25, 21:39No.3849998
I really don't like FFX would I like FFIX
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Anon10/02/25, 23:39No.3853092
I'm genuinely surprised there's no mod that fixes the combat.
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Anon10/03/25, 17:25No.3853399
fucking hate it because im a sperg and i feel compelled to 100% everything, which includes those stupid as fuck play and mini game shit right at the start. fuck me what a tedious piece of shit.
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Anon10/03/25, 18:11No.3853421
I really enjoy the beginning of the game and the game steadily loses steam right after you leave the Mist Continent.The Mist Continent is so vibrant, many different towns, tons of conflict, wars, etc. etc. Queen Brahne is the little engine of villainy that keeps things moving. Then you get to the Outer Continent and it's basically barren by comparison. We also kill of Queen Brahne who has so much more villain star power than Kuja ever had.The Lost and Forgotten Continents manage to be even more barren than the Outer Continent.It's such a unnecessary flaw with the game. It is one thing when you get to the end of the game and all the NPCs start saying the same things that the world starts feeling dead and empty, but FF9 manages to feel dead and empty before the 3rd Act because of how sparse things are in the other continents and you're given that this is the extent of the entire world of FF9.... There's no reason why any of these locations have to exist on an entirely different continent. We could've just had an Ivalice situation where we have all this same continent, but presented on a smaller scale so that the world feels so much bigger, that there is life outside the boundaries of the Mist Continent, instead of playing on a dead planet.So I'm "Meh" camp.
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Anon10/03/25, 18:21No.3853424
i'm playing blind and 24 hours in and this is still ass
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Anon10/04/25, 14:18No.3853735
I always thought it was as good or better than 7, you can't fuck with that level of presentation. It is the king of ps1 jrpgs, just people don't say that because it's a boring answer when there's so many games.
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Anon10/06/25, 13:39No.3854750
Meh. It's OK. There isn't much I like about it, and there isn't much I hate about it.
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Anon10/06/25, 18:13No.3854892
I thought it was alright
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Anon10/11/25, 16:10No.3857365
I played it when it was fairly new and I must have finished it, but I have almost no memory of the plot of the game or most of the characters. I only remember the black mage dying, and that its name is Vivi.This is from a relatively big FF fan that has played most of them and I can recall much more about 6, 7, 8, and 10. I think I can even remember more about 1, 5, and 12.
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Anon10/14/25, 22:28No.3858746
I used to think it was comfy but the way zoomers treat it as some profound philosophical treatise made me hate it
>VIVI IS CONFUSED AND AFRAID JUST LIKE ME
fucking cringe
normalfaggots ruin everything
dropped
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Anon10/15/25, 15:12No.3859149
Unironically the best Final Fantasy game
steampunk fantasy>cyberpunk fantasyI'll admit maybe the story isn't that fantastic, but the characters, cities, the music of Nobuo Uematsu, everything in this game is iconic and grandiose.
I love it
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Anon10/16/25, 09:42No.3859563
like the game, hate the fans. absolute losers
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Anon10/18/25, 14:39No.3860634
For me it was the last good FF game