Final Fantasy IX - A Poorly Drawn Summary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Hey everyone. Final Fantasy 9 is one of my favorite games of all time and holds a special place is my heart due to how deeply the story resonated with me and my own personal struggles. Also Vivi is cute. That's equally as important.
I've had an idea for a series like this for a while but learning how to write a script, draw, edit, record audio, and everything in-between took waaay longer than I expected. But now that I've got my foot in the door I plan on making a bunch more of these type of videos so stay tuned.
Any sort of feedback is appreciated, good or bad.
Most backgrounds are taken from the HD Moguri mod upscale.
Tracklist:
FINAL FANTASY 9 OST -
Prelude
Aloha de Chocobo
Terra
Tetra Master
Kuja's Theme
Madain Sari, Village of the Lost Summoners
Memories Erased by a Storm
City Treno
A Place to Call Home
Vivi's Theme
Lindblum
Unforgettable Silhouette
Battle 1
Game Over
Vamo alla Flamenco
Quina's Theme
Black Mage Village
Eiko's Theme
Faerie Battle
Something to Protect
Esto Gaza
Mount Gulug
Ipsen's Castle
Not Alone
Pandemonium
Memoria
The Darkness of Eternity
Star-Crossed Lovers
A Song from Her Memory
Behind the Door
Melodies of Life - เกม
The amount of Vivi appreciation is acceptable.
BEST BOY BEST BOY
IMO he is the second best character of the whole franchise, being Laguna the No. 1 ( ironically from one of my least favourite FF, but still love it ).
there is no such thing as too much appreciation for Vivi, our sweet baby boy
Vivi!!!! *cries in anguish* He was only little!
He is a precious bean
This game was gifted to me by a friend in middle school who knew I was in an abusive home. He said I'd really like Vivi. I would sneak around at night to be able to play this game, silent and terrified but full of so much wonder. My abuser broke all four disc's one by one. I was only at the Tree. I was absolutely devastated to not finish it. Nearly 15 years later and the Switch edition made me sob to see. I finally got to finish it and it felt so different to finally hear the music in game. This game ment so much to me.
Wow. That’s heavy.
Amazing 💖 And I hope you're in a better place today.
Abuse sucks, but there are at least one person there for you, and your friend seemed to be a good friend to have.
i cant read this im crying to mush can someone translate it into tears for me?
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I never realized this until now, but every single one of the characters in this game (except for Zidane) is somehow isolated or separated, in other words, they are ALONE. Zidane adopts every one of these characters (including Rusty) into his party and makes them feel wanted, validated, and a part of a new family of misfits. This makes the sequence in Terra that we all know and love just THAT much more powerful for me... He finally learns about his origins and decides to leave his family and become isolated and separated himself, as all of his friends once were, but they won't allow him to leave the group and they all beckon him the same way that he did for each of them. This game is literally unbelievable.
lol that almost made me cry
You know it hits hard when the guy who's always happy and encouraging falls into despair
'A Place to Call Home' is the title track. When I heard the intro when I booted this game up for the first time, I knew this game was going to be great.
Hironabu sakuguchi was the God of story telling , RIP
Zidane started his journey alone too......he's an orphan adopted by the Trope but always felt alone due to how he looks and constantly searches for somewhere and someone he belongs with
I remember seeing someone else talk about how war is another major theme in FF9, and how the game letting you revisit certain cities even after the were destroyed made her cry, especially the part where you can encounter an NPC who, prior to the cities destruction, was selling things, who has now been blinded by the debris and laments that she can no longer see her granddaughter's face.
Dang. I never realized they were the same
Oh man it was the same for me, I was really sad to read that textbox about her now blinded.
Good writing is lit 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I am glad to have finally seen what the fuss was about
@@customer325 that b**** ought to be f****** grateful she didn't get swallowed up by the f****** dragon thingy
Tell her she's a pussy, it's a videogame, who gives a fuck.
"That have the power to destroy city's, or do 500 damage... depending if you are in a cutscene,"
I almost spat the water I was drinking
Generally, for every extra summoning ability equivalent accessory you collect in your inventory, the corresponding eidolons attack will become stronger. Try 99 amethyst atomos.
I feel like you can always argue that it's scaled back for battles deliberately. You summon probably shouldn't obliterate you while attacking the enemy.
@@Doncornuto
Too bad that rule doesn’t apply to spells! *Doomsday intensifies*
@@Doncornuto unless its the doomsday spell lol
@@WiiSage im late but actually if you have gear that absorbs dark it can be a full party heal with damaging the enemy
No one gonna talk about the line saying " they can summon eidolens which can destroy towns or deal 500 damage depending on wether or not you're in a cutscene"
like fuck summons, who needs them when my swords and knives do max damage
Yep that's rpg's in a nut shell. Logic out the window, but I still love them.
I generally just use standard attacks for most rpg's, FF9 has some of the weakest summons and magic ever, I havent used a summon since my first playthrough. At least FF8 had GF's like doomtrain which were a great help with status effects. Most bosses in FF9 can be severely fucked up by throwing a tent on them. I always boost stats towards physical attack through equipiments and levelling up, this is the way to get through random battles the quickest.
I imagine that the cutscene versions are the actual god/beast being summoned. In battle, you're just quickly summoning a much weaker extension of the summoned's avatar
Well, in game Eidolens do damage based on how long their summoning animation is. In combat, the animation is normally only a few seconds long. Cutscenes last minutes.
That moment when you realize Vivi died thinking Zidaine was still dead
Why do you tell me this. 😢
And just like that, I’m ruined
I could've gone the rest of my life without knowing this
Oh no.
i like to think when Zidane escaped the tree he spent the remaining time with Vivi and that was why he was so late.
Vivi's biggest fear was death, yet despite that he would constantly put himself im harms way to help his friends. true bravery right there.
It wasn't death, it was to be forgotten. I believe it's the quote he gets if you have access to the game book
@@jmc154 no, that was freija's fear, the whole thing with flatrey explains it
Part of why this game is so good is how excellent Zidane is as the glue that holds the team together. Zidane is one of the more unique protagonists in the series who already knows "who he is," when you get him. He doesn't really get too much character development throughout the game if you pay attention, but instead is the one who shows the rest of the cast what they're missing. He's the anchor and the development of the rest of the party members is because of him. It all culminates in the "you're not alone" sequence in Bran Bul where Zidane is caught in a moment of existential crisis; the party whom he has helped throughout the game, now return the favor. It's really a powerful sequence.
well said!
One thing I really liked about Zidane being such a cocky and outgoing character was that it actually made an impact when he started to doubt himself and have that existential crisis nearing the end because it was such a notable change from how he usually acted.
Some of the later Final Fantasies and a lot JRPGs in general opt to have a protagonist that's surly and angsty the entire time, so when something goes wrong it doesn't make as much of an emotional impact because the character was never happy to begin with.
That sequence always got me in tears. It's so powerful the message there. Friendship and loyalty will always be on your side when you most need them, that is in your worst moments.
Before i clicked ''show more'' i was going to write he is the anchor because his character stands for virtue. (Each character in ff9 stands for a certain trait, Vivi for example stands for sorrow, Garnet for devotion, etc etc.)
@@YorkJonhson I feel like vivi had alot of character development. He went from a stuttering coward to a full on warrior. After seeing the deaths of the free black mages he realized there is nothing to be done about death and begins the second half of his story arc.
"Capable of destroying cities or dealing 500 damage, depending if you are in a cutscene or not"
Awesome line!!
Atomos! XD
Vivi to me is a metaphor for the series (and the end of the 'classic' FF games), and a metaphor for all of us who spent our childhood years playing these golden era FFs. That time came to an end for all of us, but it was worth the adventure and the memories of those games will stick with us.
Idk man final fantasy X is pretty great
FFX is by far the best FF ever made.. The “golden era” was one game long, everything before it is propped up by nostalgia
@@Primitive01 FF4-12 were good.
@@alchemistofsteel8099 I know, I was just talking shit.. The guy was trying to say FF has gone downhill since 9 which just isn’t true, X was the pinnacle of FF, 12 was great too..
@@Primitive01 Opinions are great, aren't they :) It can be true for "the guy", and not for you. X was interesting, XII dropped the ball for me (in both combat, and a story focusing more on countries than people). The switch to voiced lines also is a double edged sword imo. You can put your own spin on written lines, so they can still be okay, but the typical dubs sound cringe as hell to me.
Now that i think about it.. i never actually beat 12.. i tried multiple times, but the story just isnt there... maybe some day (naw)
Why am I still crying 22 years later about the ending of this game? This was great, thank you. This will always be the best game in the series for me. I'm glad I stumbled upon this video
I can't believe this game means as much to other people as it did to me when I was younger. I'm shocked by that. I have a lump in my throat watching this lol
The end is the first time hearing the full version of Melodies of Life with Vocals with the credits and the floodgates just poured
For me this is NOT favourite game in the series. It is my favourite game of all time :)
@@Alexriga oh it's my number one, for sure! Harvest Moon back to Nature is a close second, but I will take FF9 forever.
"Can we not talk about seven for one god damn second"
I felt that in the core of my soul.
same lmao
@@Pacman-9312 not same lmao siimmpp
It's almost like people want to talk about the good one and contrarians insist upon that other one they played during *their* childhoods.
In your... CRISIS CORE?
@@varsoonhks3211 good is a matter of opinion. And as far as it stands Eight was my childhood game, but good try my guy.
FF9 is like reading a fairy tale. This game is an amazing achievement
Perfectly said
No, YOU are an amazing achievement!
@@Potato-pn8sg that's breathtaking
I've always thought of it more as a play, telling a fairy tale.
Yes. My favorite ever.
It's crazy how this game was mocked back at his released, it's clearly the most complete and harmonious ff to me even when replaying it two decades later. The childish aspect is really just in appearance, the further you go the darker and deep the scenario gets.
The only flaw I can find is the fact it's a bit too easy combat wise
Honestly though this is basically the same for all the PSX-era Final Fantasy games outside the "ultimate" level optional bosses.
The best strategy ends up being just spamming attack and throwing out the odd Healing spell.
I feel like FF9 did a good job splitting the difference between FF7's and FF8's combat and equipment systems, but it basically ends up the same way.
@@KotCR I agree, the only way I found challenge was to stop myself from using Eiko/Dagger her best healing spell and using only potions but it's a pity they didn't take the opportunity for strategy here like you said with that job system. Or you just never level up but then the abilities take ages to complete
@@alexeiharp7676 Quina was my white mage of choice.
White Wind can be learned really early on.
On the PC version they have an update / Mod to increase the difficulty and change some mechanics called Alternate Fantasy, I recommend checking it out
@@averybomb2 thanks for the info
This is so true. Of all the FF games, this one is literally burned into my soul. This game resonated with me when I was trying to find meaning and love in my own early teens. Another VERY different aspect of this game that the others did not, was a system that fully developed every character and their story, even if you didn’t use them. You had the opportunity to see them do their things while Zidane was off doing his. It really connected me with the ENTIRE story instead of just the linear character of the hero. Still to this day, the game makes me cry and feel the warmest of emotions at the same time, all the way down to my core and back to my early adolescence. This game will always be my favorite of all time.
That was IV( II as I knew it then) for me. 14/15, not feeling like I fit in anywhere. Just watched an uncle in his 30s die after a 2 year battle with cancer. Realizing I didn't believe the religion I was raised in. Feeling like I failed a girl I briefly felt a connection, but was too insecure to help or try to reconnect. Etc., etc. ... I was pretty depressed at that time. I know it sounds cliche to many, but for those couple years music and RPG/Adventure games really got me through those few years. FF IV had aspects that I could find parallels with in my life.
the entire "You're not alone" section is one of my favorites in gaming. Shit is tight.
"It's powerful!"
That part has the best music
It's even better when you know how he would cheer up his friends no matter how depress they got up till that point in the game
this should be top comment
Oh god I loved that bit
I can't believe that even this poorly drawn summary brought me tears at the end
Anything remotely related to FFIX ending is tear inducing.
tbh it's not poorly drawn, i love it bcs it's really detailed and unique ^^
i don't remember 70% of the plot although i played thru twice, yet the ending gets me everytime
I have discovered, along my best friend regarding Vivi's death, years later (I was like 13 when I first played FF9). I am amazed by the depth of this;game , it is my all time favourite one, along with Terranigma.
How could you not cry at Vivi's death. The kid gone through so much shit and still had the worst outcome out of all.
FF9 is arguably the best rendition of what the essence of a Final Fantasy game is. Highly underrated release.
Isn’t it just!!
I keep saying ff7 was the best …. Then I think about ff8 …. Then I think about ff9
And then ff10 😂🤣
They was all amzing at the very time they were released
For some reason though it’s between 8 &9 and maybe 10 …. Or maybe 7 god knows 😂🤣🤣
@@jerome8670To me, 9 is completely out if the discussion. I know it’s just me, but to me it’s really the worst entry in the whole franchise.
@@Livingtree32 really …. To be fair I don’t remember it that much but can just remember it being amazing!
Along with 8 and 7 and 10 😂🤣😂
I think being 10 years old when ff7 came out I probably rode the wave with my age!
@@Livingtree32wdym it's one of the worst?! I just beat it yesterday and it was incredible! I would say it's better than 7 (although I still like 7 more) what makes you think it's that bad??
@@pogethedoge I think the story is absolutely bland and generic, I don’t like any of the characters and the gameplay is boring as hell. In what reality is it better than VII, pleeeease? 😅
12:30 To be fair, Eiko lives alone with a hundred Kupos, making her the cat lady of the world. So she is probably very, very lonely and starving for social interaction.
"Miraculously, he somehow develops emotions and becomes sentient."
No one ever told me Vivi was The Hollow Knight!
A Perfect vessel
hollow mage
born of god and magic
@@leggomyeggo5773 He has the power of god, magic, AND anime on his side.
yes
I don't think "abandoned as a baby on a foreign planet and raised by bandits" qualifies as "convenient plot amnesia." He literally couldn't have known about Kuja or his own purpose for existence.
Yeah, I don't think they talk about amnesia anywhere. It's more like, too young to remember clearly. All he remembers is a blue light, like a feeling.
Also weird they call Zidane a Goku echo, when this is Terra’s origins actually. Zidane is a combination of Terra, Cecil, and Clouds story. Cecil being he is from another world with great magical power, Terra since he was taken as Baby to a new world, and Cloud with his need to find his identity.
I will always remember the scene when Freya asks Beatrix if she remembers killing her husband and she replies "i cannot possibily remember all the rats i've killed"
Ice cold
or when she says Bitch don't make me break your ass down to 1 HP.
Even being a 32 year old grown as man the ending brings a tear to my eye. Just like ff10 at the end. Such wonderful games
Memories is another huge theme in FF9. The importance of remembering the good times, the bad times, close friends, lost loved ones, moments of hope and moments of despair. The game explores that people are not the product of their makers, but of the memories they choose to create.
This theme of memories is one of the reasons I think the game has stood the test of time so well. Every time you play through the game again you revisit those memories. As you develop more nostalgia, the story’s themes become enhanced over and over again. It really is a masterpiece.
Likewise, everyone in your party, and many NPCs, is/are enduring an existential crisis of one variety or another--Zidane confronted with being a genome, Vivi with being manufactured, Freya with the loss of her homeland, Garnet with the monstrous nature of her mother and the lies concerning her birth, Eiko with the loss of her family/isolation, Steiner working through his conflicted loyalties, etc---FF7 attempted to achieve the same result but the end product was far less believable, and incredibly forced with the notable exception of Cid--building on what you've noted, they're successful in staving off depression, self-loathing, despair, etc by banding together and serving as an emotional support network for one another--Zidane is there for Garnet, Viv, and Freya--Eiko for Garnet, Garnet for Eiko--Steiner helping Beatrix through the same conflicted loyalties he overcame himself. It's so good... so so good. :D
AINT NUTTIN WORTH 'MEMBRIN BUT THE ALAMO
the final dungeon is literally a manifestation of their memories too!
This. The whole game is about life and memories, and ofc those 2 pretty much entail anything that will ever happen to someone. So it's all very relatable and if not, at least still intriguing and as realistic as a fantasy world can be
I mean the second to last dungeon is literally called Memoria.
“Cid noclips out of his cell.”
I snorted on that one.
Me too !!! I fucking remember that x'D
I full on nose exhaled for a good 3 seconds, it was really funny 😊
Never understood why people dislike Quina. He/she is happy despite her/his looks, knows what she/he loves to do and does it without a care. In a cast full of internal conflict and a bleak world, you have Quina, just happy for being able to do what she/he loves to do, which is to eat and discover new dishes and foods.
No matter the complexity or simplicity, focus on what you love and make that your life goal.
I still love this game.
Vivi will always have a special place in my heart.
Favorite FF character of all time IMO.
“And Garnet is having Eidolons sucked out of her by two Kefka cosplayers.”
BRAZZERS
FF9 is the game that accompanied me during my childhood and will forever hold a special part in my heart
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Nice
Mine was dragon quest sentinels of the starry sky loved that game
Good it is a really good game
Same here brother, best ff for me
Didn't have that kind of game when I was a child but I have it now , it's nier and nier automata ... Damn those games are incredible
FFIX is the only FF I’ve ever played to completion. I’ve played a lot of them but never got around to completing them. I’m almost 30 now and the ending to this game still brings me to tears 😭 and Vivi is a special little bean that is my favorite fictional character and it ain’t even close.
I feel that. I've finished 10 and 6 and never played 9, but so many of them get so far up their own asses, it's hard to get through, which is part of the reason I have hesitated to play 9. Maybe I'll give it a try, though.
I love the dichotomy of this game looking cute but having the absolutely most horrific, dark events AND themes.
Ah yes, Bahumat. The slightly less cooler cousin of Bahamut.
That pronunciation was triggering me the entire video.
What @drewlil said... the whole time listening I was like... BA HA MUT! 🤦🏾♂️
Not as bad as him not being able to pronounce 'Zidane'. Z-DAN.
@@SSJfraz I don't know but people has a lot of variations on how they pronounce Zidane. But yours is right, zee-dahn. The Japanese version wrote it as ジータン (Jiitan ---the Japanese pronunciation of Zidane, in English it's like Gee-Tahn). He made the video pretty nice and great, almost crying watching it, but the mispronunciation just pulls me suddenly from the feels immersion, back into the reality.
Honestly I thought he said Bakugan everytime he was talking about Bahamut.
"Convenient plot Amnesia". Wasn't he a baby when he was found?
Well Goku was a baby too when he was sent to earth but got his amnesia from a bonk on the head that somehow didn't kill him
Still funny
right like you cant blame a baby for not remembering anything
@@professorchaos5058 I think they're both clearly inspired in sun wukong (monkey aliens) maybe there's amnesia in the original story
Wu story stars with him popping into existence when lightning hits a egg shaped stone ontop of a hill.
I just love how everyone is doing an epic pose on the cover art, and Vivi is just...standing there.
Vivi was my 2nd favorite, right behind Zidane.
Meanwhile Steiner is staring right at the player like "Buy this game or ill kill your family"
Brothers from different mothers them two boys. Good times..
初投稿の動画で数あるffの中で7や10じゃなくて9を選んでくれているの個人的にめちゃくちゃ嬉しい…
I remember back when FF VII came out, one of my dad's friend was playing to it at his place. A few years later, I was like "dude wtf I want that game too it's super hype". So I went to a local gameshop with my mom, and was looking for it. Sadly the vendor dude told me "sorry it's too hype it's really hard to find. But here's, like, FF IX. It's cool and stuff". I looked at the jacket and was like "that looks chidish as fuck... but ok I'll try". Around 17 years later my eyes still got wet just from hearing you mention Vivi's letter. My fucking FEELS man. FF IX is the one game that made me realize video games aren't recreation, they're fucking ART.
The creator of -yak- -yuk- YIIK disagrees.
-Let's give him a controlled shock.-
Dude I'm with you on the tears just mentioning vivis letter. I got 9 first, then 7 later. Both have brought me to tears, but the nostalgia and the feels from the games, damn
Same exact scenario except I went looking for linkin park hybrid theory and got given meteora, never looked back. Rip che be
I never got over it..
I couldn't get past the cover art having played FF Xviii on PC. I didn't own 7 but I watched a friend play it. Sounds like this game has a good narritive though.
Vivis character arc is one of the saddest in any game Ive played.
His story arch is beautiful. He learned something that a lot of us never do. How much time we have left isn’t important. It’s how we spend that time that matters. He knew he wouldn’t be around for a long time and still went through everything they did, still saved the world and his friends because they were important to him.
He's kind of a like a Dark Souls boss, except not giant and deformed.
@@parzival_35f32 I agree it finishes beautifully for him.
But for someone who is essentially a child found and raised by Quan, his journey is brutal and the philosophical realisations he needed to come to terms with is some shizz most adults couldnt handle. What does it mean to be 'real'? To a child, that is hardcore.
One of my fave FF chars of all time.
I honestly never really understood the origins with the two planets and crystals and such, so thank you for getting the general backstory out of the way at the very beginning. That was more or less completely new to me.
I had no idea what he was talking about with that honestly either, it all flew over my head as a kid I guess.
Vivi is a precious baby and deserves more love and affection
I think I sobbed when I realized that letter was from Vivi.
My dumb ass didn't even realize that was the case until I watched this video.
@@ltb1345 me too bro, me too.
Yeah I missed that first time too >_
elephant march read god emperor of dune
I figured it was vivi but my dumbass was too busy sobbing to read it!
Vivis death and the main theme of ff9 will always be enough to make me cry
Thanks for the spoiler asshat
@@eldaxx13 Why would you be watching this video if you are not already finished the entire game or looking to learn the story anyway. Lame
@@user-tg4nc3un1k Thought this was a video review and not a summary maybe? Why do you even care in the first place? Lame.
@@eldaxx13 The youtuber literally says that he's gonna explain the whole script at the beginning of the video.
@@eldaxx13 weirdo
I DIDN’T EVEN REALISE THAT LAST SPEECH WAS VIVI WTF I’M SOO SAD WHYYYYY- 😭😭😭😭
Thanks for this video. I could never fully comprehend (or remember?) what the whole genome and Garland stuff was, and especially Necron at at the end, but I always get teary-eyed whenever I think about Vivi's story.
“Chivalry requires a knight to look after his comrades-in-arms. I will not abandon you!”
Steiner’s line to Zidane in Pandemonium gets me every time.
Michael Cabello especially since it’s a far cry from the detest and contempt he had for Zidane at the beginning. It really means something
DeathInCarn 8000 yes! Actual character development happening organically in the plot!
Michael Cabello shame we don’t get that in most new stories like we used to
@@rollrcoastrbacon2725 Every time I play through the game I always hate Steiner for being such a nucklehead. But then he always ends up being one of my favorites.
I like how there’s the Lost Continent, and then there’s the *Forgotten* Continent
A very creative naming with deep philosophical meaning
A very creative naming with deep philosophical meaning
A very creative naming with deep philosophical meaning
@@amidysiregar4468
Sorry mate hahaha!
Dunno what happened when i type that comment.
@@fajaradi1223 haha, i copied the guy below you...
Yeah I won't lie, this game had quite the impact on me. The themes of life and death gave me a fairly existential crisis at 12 years old. That being said, it is an incredibly powerful game, and I will forever respect it for that.
I played 7,8,9,10 and 13 when they were contemporary. Going back to 7, 9 and 10 in recent times their thought provoking themes have aged so well. Somehow I never understood 10 when I played it first time round, but when I replayed it recently it knocked me to the floor at times. I misunderstood it so badly back in the day 😅
Play 12. It is a lot better than people think it is.
6 - 10 for me . 10 being by far the best! Love that game. I still dream of zanarkand, the music, the story is unforgettably the best game experiences you can ask for
I’ve name my dog vivi who has given us his most happiness and passed away last month after 15 years. They both so similar, didn’t know when their life will be ended but never stop embracing their life to us. R.I.P. Vivi
My oldest male cat is named Vivi after Vivi. People often thought he's a female because of the name Vivi, unless they are FFIX fan. 🤭
Quina in a way represents the character with a fully realized purpose in life: to eat. While most of the other characters go through an existential crisis/angst there is Quina who has a known purpose and it's a good foil to say, someone like Vivi who is still trying to figure all that out and his purpose in life. Which makes it all the more interesting that they do have some wholesome interactions in the plot!
honestly I sorta liked Quina. He's the character that is so basic he can only be happy, because if you don't think you can't have sad thoughts.
I really like that interpretation. Vivi, who can represent the thoughts we face regarding purpose and fulfillment, is countered with Quina who abandons that worry with quick and easy gratifications. Then, when the two get married, it could be seen as symbolic, having ours concerns about purpose and of simply being, merge into one, where both are considered and accounted for.
I... so happy
I used to know someone that only felt safe when they were eating. It was the only time their mother didn't abuse them.
People that keep eating and get unhealthy represent depression. You are prey. Learning to be a predator. Learn to hunt or be too weak and get fat until you learn to take care of yourself. If you can learn to be fat and happy then great. Make the best from the worst. Just don't die at 55 when you eat yourself to death.
It's actually kind of funny that everyone in your party is on some path of self discovery dealing with existential dread, internal conflict, identity, and a whole host of other dilemmas. Except of course for yours truly.
Love how you played "you are not alone" during that scene.
Loved that song.
More than twenty years later and I still get goosebumps when I play it from time to time... FF7 can't be replaced, but surely this chapter was one of the best ever made! Soundtrack is superb (main theme and Oeilvert theme are the best)
"So the party is split into pairs and, of course, Quina is stuck with the player, because the game needed a reason to make you use him."
Someone didn't catch frogs.
AMEN! Enemy skill, especially frog drop is broken AF... if you put in the hours.
@@ekajikabos6728 agreed. Started on this entry in the series earlier this week, and I’m currently towards the end of disc 2, but I went from hating having to use Quina to missing them dearly when I was forced to use two healers when I only need one.
@@FragmentedR_YT blue magic is underrated. While it can be a dragging mechanic, eating your enemies has got to be the most hilarious method of gaining spells ever.
@@cannibalisticfawn5895 agreed there, I think what also helps with IX’s method is that there aren’t a whole lot of spells to learn, so it doesn’t become boring or annoying to eat things. Before I realized it I only had like 5 spells left to learn. It also helps that most of them are pretty useful.
Quina is my strongest characters, he and zidane can deal 9999 damage easily.
Zidane use steal most of the time and quina have other strong spells (magic hammer and mighty guard)
fun fact, alexander isn't the castle.
if you look closely alexander is a giant steam powered mech that's like twice the size of the castle.
his wings sprout from the castle, close and then reveal the whole thing.
he looks like ff7 alexander but with 10000x the budget.
I like that an Alexander corrected his Alexander oversight.
I just wanna mention FFIX's alexander is my favorite and I want to mention also that FFXIV's representation of Alexander is very well done IMO. I wish we got to see more of Alex as a summon in FF stories.
Yeah, in fact the castle is a safety mechanism. When Alexander is being controled the castle react and destroy it, that's why the bad guys don't get it like they did Bahamut.
Check Type-0's Alexander. This is getting out of hand!
yep. He was the one sealed away 500 years prior when the summoner crew lost control so boated to the outer continent. its also why theres a summoner circle in the basement. tho we never got an explanation as to why there's one in a long dead underground Mole city o.0
also ff9 alex was so cool they used it as a base for FF14's Alex and boy do i love that fight :3
Man this game always made me cry at the end, even just watching this I still teared up.
Loved this video you put out. This game has meant so much to me throughout my life since being introduced to it. I've always felt it deserved more appreciation and this went a long ways towards that end. ❤
I was a really depressed 15 year old when the game came out and the games dark exssestential tone pushed me to quit within hours. About a year later I tried it again and beat it and I can easily say that it's a masterpiece. It's basically a love letter to the origins of final fantasy and it has maybe the best final fantasy soundtrack which is very high praise indeed.
"has given up writting random crap to you"....."writting random crap to you, has given up"
I can never get over Vivi's last letter.
I know 😭😭 even though his “sons” are there... it just isn’t Vivi 😭
And so little people that play it catch that it's his final letter :(
Perfect explaination..
Final fantasy 9 is my childhood!
Dude what a fun video. Awesome summary of a heavy plot covering deep subjects. I appreciated your humor and pacing as well. Great job!
Ah, what a wonderful retelling of the story of ZyeDain, I particularly like the part with Bahoomaht.
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Had to scroll down to find someone reacting to those pronunciations. Crazy. :D
I was expecting him to pronounce it "Queen Brain" lol
🙏😂
this guy played dissidia
This was my first final fantasy and it set the bar so damn high for me that every other game in the series never even came close.
Same for me, FF9 will forever be my favourite FF, I like others too but nothing comes close
Same, but not just for the games in the series, for me it also set the bar so high for other fantasy games outside the Final Fantasy franchise.
This was my 4th FF and it is by far my favorite so yeah.
My first FF game was the very first one on the ol NES, it was just called Final Fantasy. Of all of the entries since then that I've played, my top 3 are easy to pick-FF3, FF7, and FFX. I also really liked 8, but it wasn't quite good enough to be in that top tier. FFIX may have been good enough, but my copy kept freezing on a certain cutscene, it was either when i was about to switch to the last disc or right after, i can't remember which, but either way i could never get it to play through it so i never got to finish the game. I really wish i could have, though. I was really enjoying it to that point.
@@josephdillard9907 my first one was the original as well, but due to the weird release order in the US I didn't play any others till 7 then 8 then 9.
I was inspired to go back and finally finish my first real adult play through of this after a roughly 3 year break. I was late in disc 3. This made for a great refresher.
I went through the game during a bad case of depression. I have bipolar disorder and sometimes it really makes you think if live is even worth living when you suffer mentally from time to time and in worst cases can’t even enjoy the things you love. First time I played it through I really felt like it was written for me. It didn’t cure me but it made me think about all the positive things in life and all that hardships are also part of it but that doesn’t mean your life needs to be suffering or meaningless. It gave me a push to go and seek help that I had felt too weak to do before, just like people around me who cared for me.
Now over 8 years later I’m in a good situation, my illness is fairly stable and I’ve found a person that I truelly love. I played the game through, finishing it today and I am still moved by it’s message.
I like how you captured the goofiness and randomness of it all in the video while still capturing the message of the game. And yeah, Amarant can F off.
Vivi deserves a nice rest that makes him feel energized, pancakes and eggs with a side of bacon for breakfast, a nicely sized sandwich and a bottle of coca cola for lunch, and some chicken alfredo with toasted garlic bread and a cold glass of water for dinner, and makes so much chicken alfredo he has leftovers.
This is quality content on the internets. Hearing an FF story told aloud really emphasizes how bizarre and convoluted the storylines are of these games. But we love them anyway. The drawings in this video are 10/10
More so the journey, the cities, and the pals you meet along the way.
Bizzare and convoluted aren't necessarily negative things. The events that happen are literally bizzare and convoluted.
Vivi is Final Fantasy IX's true protagonist.
This is AMAZING! You are a great story teller and animator, very entertaining 🙂.
The best RPG story game I’ve ever played. Nobody actually mentioned that they put more humor jokes in this game than any other FF games
And they needed to put the humor in to keep it from being too depressing. ^^
Not just that. The humor moments were tolerable. Those are hard to find in games
Its the worst one, really boring
Zidane grabbing Daggers ass is still hilarious
@@Walamonga1313 Oh God FFX Tidus: HA HA HA HAAAA! Ultimate cringe overkill.
saying "people willingly listen to eminem" implies that people are now forced to and i just imagine someone being strapped down in a chair with slim shady or monster in the background while they are just begging for this to stop
Thats legit nightmare fuel
This is an accurate representation of mainstream music.
@@FlameHunterZero that's showbizz baby *reveals a stage with torture devices setup for guests*
why am i having X-play flashbacks of the intern forced to watch pokemon?
.... you found my basement? What were you doing in my basement.... are you subject 12 that escaped?!
I played the game multiple times when younger and once during the pandemic, I always somewhat of a completionist so got 99% percent of content each time, but it took your video for me to finally make any sense of the backstory.
As a huge fan of this game. You nailed it with the story. Would love to see more Final Fantasy game covered this way.
Fun Fact: Ramuh's "Fanfiction" is the exact story about Josef from Final Fantasy 2
Wait what, I never realised it! Wow. Wow!!
so you are saying that espers already exist Before 3 and after 1? da hell
This is literally the first time I've heard of ff9 and I gotta say, I would die for vivi
Have you played it yet? You should!
Yeah it's a great game!
You shouldn’t die for Vivi since he represents living life to the fullest.
Me 2
Did you Play it yet?
I finished the game 5 years ago and I remember none of this.
Thanks for putting the effort into this video. I love it!
I’ve played this so many times back in the day and I never clearly understood the story. I remember getting so confused once I was in Terra. This vid helped me so much!! Now I want to replay it
Man I LOVED the part of Zidane realizing who he is and friendship saves the day. You're right. It sounds corny but the execution in it is so rewarding and satisfying. You basically BECOME a party member rooting for Zidane to come to his senses. So good.
Thank you for making this video. Incredibly under appreciated game. Favorite for life.
Final Fantasy 9 gave me such an existential crisis. I'll never forget the adventure I took through this game as a child. This game taught me good from bad, right from wrong, that life has meaning, and the soundtrack... One of the best in the Final Fantasy soundtrack. Five stars for FFIX!!
Yassss 🤎
Thought this was just gonna be a really long Ark summon, but this video turned out super well. The true plot points along with your comedic style brings this video together so well! Glad you were able to finish school and can work on putting out more videos, I look forward to many more!
I'm still playing this game so many years after my first encounter. It is a remarkable piece of gaming history with so much to show and give. Thank you for the nice summary =)
It's a legendary game. I've loved this game since I was 8 years old and I've periodically played it at least once a year ever since. I'm 29 now. It just resonates me in a way very few games ever have. It truly is the magnum opus of FF.
It's sad to see how bad FF has fallen since this. If this gets a remake I'd probably die of excitement.
You and I
I think all the games from 6 to 10 were great and 11 was the best MMORPG with the most helpful community I've ever played.
I still played everything after that, but none of it remotely came close to the quality of the PS and PS2 Final Fantasy era respectively.
Then again, there's alot of polarization and bad faith within the FF community going on that I never understood. No, FF7 is not overrated. No, FF9 is not underrated (check the metacritic score). Every FF up to the PS2 since the SNES was objectivity great on the innovation and execution metric.
The words these people are really looking for are over and under appreciated, which is a point of view I can agree with.
Feuerbringer couldn’t agree with you more man 👍 Its too bad though, I hated 11 because neither me or any of my friends had internet back then so we never got to play it, and I always saw it as the killer of the franchise. I bet it was fire though!
Just wanna jump in and say that FF14's latest expansion, Shadowbringers, is genuinely one of the best JRPG stories I've ever played through and is my favorite FF game since 9 (14 in general is a super good game as a whole now as well). Highly, highly recommend looking into it.
@@stellezen I'm really interested to play FF 14 but I've never played an online fantasy before. Do I have to buy a load of extra expansions along with the base game. If I am offline can I still explore its world and stuff? Am a complete beginner with MMORPG
Ba-Who-Mat!
That actually hurts to hear.
Yeah this one was the final straw for me. How did he manage to mispronounce practically every name in this game?
@@yuckqi What do you mean? You don't like Mayko reactors and summoning Idoolans? He can't even pronounce Nihilism correctly. This whole thing was... really hard to listen to.
Pretty sure he mispronounced most proper nouns in this game.
KNock knock. Who's that. Bah! Who? Matt?
Yeesss, came to the comments to see if anyone else was bothered by this DX
This was the first game that I really connected with as a kid. Thanks for making this!!
thank you for this absolute video, you're the best for bringing up my childhood memory in such a funny way and catching the best parts of this game. I was like 10 years old the first time playing this, there wasn't google translate and english is not my first languange, so i was kinda played the game without really understood the story line. When i was older i decided to play it again and enjoying the story line. The first time i finished the game I didn't realize that Vivi died in the end. The second time i finished the game and knew Vivi died, i was crying so hard like i was losing a family. Damn, that hit me hard.
I haven't even played this game, but Vivi's letter made me so fucking sad...
Lot of great moments like that throughout. I was kind of uninvested for much of disc 1, but once I heard the black mage village leader talking about those that stopped working, and Zidane’s backstory which is revealed super quickly either after or before that, I realized I was playing a masterpiece.
@@FragmentedR_YT focus. Focus. Flare.
Vivi is a nuke
Vivi best character
I actually cried during the ending cutscenes. Most especially when I just realized that Vivi died after the final battle.
iamfatmed mm FUCK YOU I DIDNT FINISH THE GAME YET
@@bonjolor8298 dude this is a 20 year old game, you can't complain for spoilers lol
Wait what... NOOOO why did you post this :( I wanted to think he lived a long life especially long enough to meet a woman he loves and was able to watch his kids grow up :(
I played the game as a kid and never noticed that he died ;_; wtf
Captain Butt it’s kinda subtle how he says it
This is the BEST video i ever saw about FFIX.
Please make MOREEEE
Ahh, every year or so I'm watching this video because it inspired me to play now one of my favorite games and because it's the first video from you that I watched. Thank you for showing me this wonderful game (you won't remember this, but I actually also thanked you 4 years ago on Twitter haha)
"You're Not Alone" is the best track in the game, tbh
And on the list for best track in any game ever.
I liked that one a lot but Over the Hills was the best imao. They are kinda hard to compare being so different.
Roses of May or Place I Will Return To anybody?
@@joshchidester1256 Also fantastic. It is a soundtrack filled with some of the greatest gems in videogame history. "You're Not Alone" stands a bit taller than the others for me, but I can listen to the entire soundtrack on loop.
Kaegan Rumsey ahem... melodies of life
Although you are not alone is a close second. Or maybe third behind the place I’ll return to someday
Freya is still to this day my favorite character of the entire FF series.
She had a lot of potential as a character and faded basically to nothing in the later game. They could have build her character a lot more than that.
@@redX111t Indeed. They could have had a side story going to find out what caused Fratley's amnesia. It's hinted that it was a near-death experience with the rumors of his death, but putting in a side quest for that would have extended her story further.
Wow dude, thanks for making the video! FFIX is one of the Final Fantasy series that has a special place in my heart. I was pessimistic about the game when I first played it (coz I find the chibi designs for the characters a bit weird, at least for me) but later it kinda grows on me and I kept going for the story and I'm glad I did. I'm 39 y.o and can't believe it's already passed more than 2 decades since the game released. I was reminiscing about the game and randomly searching for the summary and stumbled upon your video. Glad to say I'm thankful for the summary. Cried at the end as I slowly recalled the story, yet happy to re-experience the story once more in a compact format. Thanks for the nostalgia! :)
One of the best videos i've seen in my life.
Cheers !
"The game needs a reason for you to use Quina" BUT HE'S ONE OF THE STONGEST PARTY MEMBERS WHAT DO YOU MEAN?! D:
Frog Drop all day
Frog Drop, Pumpkin Head, White Wind, Angel Snack, Level 5 Death, 1000 Needles
I’m so glad I’m not the only one lmao
I beat the game the first time with him literally because I had holy absorb on him xD idr if it was from a cloak and vivi had the better cloak but with no absorb but still
Not to mention even the supporting characters are super memorable
I can just quote that chick from Broklyn 99: "This is [Vivi], I just [controlled] him for a [minute] and a half, but if anything would happen to him, I'd kill everyone in this [city] and then myself!"
Ya mean Rosa
That you’re not alone scene was so damn good love this game
I love this so much... Thank you for posting this upon the face of the earth.
One of the other big themes in this game that I loved beside 'life and death' was also about finding yourself and place in life
every character when you first meet them more or less exists in a 'fake it till you make it' sort of existence, no one has defined personal goals or really understand what they want out of life.
Steiner is in love with the Ideal of what a knight is, but only becomes knightly when he abandons the ideal and starts to fight to protect others and for a cause he believes in
Vivi is aimlessly existing at the start of the game, and not until he understands the limitations of his own existence does he really begin to live
Garnet is trying to run away from allot of things but has nothing to really run towards, and through the adventure sheds her naivety and romanticised world view in order to become a ruler
Zidane is playing the part of the 'rogue' and more than anyone else he's just there for the lul's, it's not till he discovers the horror of his roots that he finally has direction, dropping the idea of 'chasing tail' in exchange for embracing his alien heritage and reconciling with the plots villain because he's family.
Freya begins by existing as an extension to her 'love' defining herself as only auxiliary to him, overtime learning to live for herself as an individual with her own legend to write.
Eiko, when you first meet her is in an utter state of self delusion, playing at some notion of 'house' and rejecting the truth of her age, and the loss of her people, while she never really gains a proper motivation outside of 'kill those clowns' she does come to terms with her own reality and her place in it.
hell even quinna to an extent has an arc of chasing food for his own pleasure before learning to share that culinary knowledge with everyone else as head chef,.
Amerant, as late as that arc is introduce, gets to learn that no one is an island unto themselves, which quite impressively is reflected in his Trance by gaining the ability to affect all allies at once with his support skills rather than just 1 at a time.
Kozag I completely agree. I find that theme to be much more beautiful
@ムスタファ perhaps I was a bit too hyperbolic with Eiko, without the exaggeration I still believe there is something distinctly unhinged with her behaviour, something of a lost childhood and acting WAY above the age she appears, In fairness it's the moment she looses mog that she suddenly lets all that loneliness in, to fit with my earlier theme, I think it's about grief, and not being able to move forward with her life (quite literally still living in the ruins of her former home, having not moved on in a very real physical sense) until she allows herself to grieve over her losses.
Wow
This comment gets it.
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
And that's why FF9 is my favorite in the series.
I'm fairly intelligent, and i played this at my friends when eleven, and when emulators became a thing on pc and when they did on phones. I never got the crystal mist shebang. Am i dumb, or is it never really explained, except during the final boss monologe? It's still my fav ff!
I had the exact opposite reaction. It's by far my least favorite, even including early ones like 1 and 2. I've really tried, but I've never been able to force myself to finish it despite starting it up again several times in the last couple of decades.
6 is my fav
@@jaythomas1010jt I wasn't a big fan of 6, to be honest.
@@grey7987 maybe you played the others first and got to love 'em before ff9... because what happened to me was I played ff9 first, loved it, then never got to finish the others... but now when I replayed 'em, I appreciate them more, but first love never dies.
the intro expalantion was really useful! i used to think Terra was a different dimension. didnt realize its actually within Gaia
This one is my favorite of the final fantasies. Thank you.