Final Fantasy IX/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Fashion Victim Villain]]: Kuja

* [[Faux Symbolism]]: For people who really pay attention to the plot, it's obvious what Necron is ''supposed'' to be; the real theme of the game is death and dealing with its consequences (with everyone dealing with it in their own way), and so Necron literally is death (in case the name didn't give it away) and so as the final boss, the player and characters literally have to "fight death" to resolve the core issue of the game. The developers might have thought this was clever, but it's unfortunately about as subtle as a brick to the face. (The ending is still awesome {{spoiler|and tragic}}, though.)

* [[Fridge Horror]]: Upon first viewing the ending, many players do not realize that {{spoiler|Vivi is the only character who could be delivering the final monologue, and is heavily implied to have expired some time after the final battle. Needless to say, it's [[Player Punch|quite a punch in the gut.]]}}

** When Blank and Zidane first mug the Pluto Knights for their outfits, both are still recognizable and two naked Pluto Knights appear later... but when Zidane mugs the Lindblum guard, he (by way of reusing the 3D model) has somehow replicated the guard's eyes and nose peeking out of the helmet, while the real guard is never seen again...

* [[Game Breaker]]: Take the time to learn Quina's spells and ''you win''.

** Same deal with any attack that you can power up, such as Zidane's Thievery, Freya's Dragon Crest, etc. Also Steiner's Shock, which doesn't get a unique power-up method, but is ungodly powerful from the get-go.

* [[Needs More Love]]: This is probably the most underrated game in the main series. If you like modern ''FF'' (''VII'' - ''VIII'' onward), you'll dig the dark story, the well-developed characters, and the [[PS 1]] performing at the height of it's graphical capabilities. If you like old ''FF'' (''VI'' - ''VII'' and older), you'll like the brighter look of the game, the return of a more familiar character customization interface, and the well-developed characters. If you like the series in general, you'll dig the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|fantastic music]], and [[Rule of Three|well-developed characters.]]

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Atomos's rampage on Lindblum, Meltigemini, a good portion of the song "Last Battle", etc.

** According to the localization team, Zorn and Thorn's speech-patterns were a conscious choice -- in the original Japanese dialogue, they spoke with a very specific phrasing that's next-to-impossible to translate sensibly into English. As a compromise, the localized dialogue was written in the nearest English equivalent, which was 'Yoda'-style speech for Thorn (while Zorn speaks normally).

* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: Trance mode. It fills up ''very'' slowly, and is activated automatically. After the battle that Trance was activated, it wears off no matter how long the duration was!

* [[Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer]]: Chocobo Hot & Cold. The fact it has [[Ear Worm|incredibly catchy music]] to it doesn't help.

** There's also the fact that the best armor for half your party, which absorbs damage from the Darkness element (used by pretty much all the hardest bosses in the game plus the strongest spell you learn in the game), is the best prize to earn from it. It only takes a few hours of it to give you [[Game Breaker]] levels of power.

** The battles with Beatrix can be intensely annoying due to how difficult it is to steal all her items, two of which each time are powerful equipment pieces you can't acquire by other means yet so you have incentive to get them, and it's a [[Timed Mission]] so you only have so many turns to try and get them before she gets bored and deals a [[Total Party Kill]].

* [[That One Puzzle]]: The "red light, green light" game where Cid has to evade the notice of a Hedgehog Pie enemy.

* [[Tier-Induced Scrappy]]: Character-wise, Amarant is relatively popular; maybe not as much as Vivi or Steiner, but he has his fans. Gameplay-wise, not so much. Of course, it doesn't help that you get him [[Can't Catch Up|towards the end of Disc 2]].

* [[Toy Ship]]: Many shippers interpreted Eiko's bossiness and Vivi's nervous compliance as cute enough to warrant one. {{spoiler|Which, canonically, would end in tragedy.}}

* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Kuja, very infamously.

* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: The Chocobo upgrading scenes. You open a treasure chest and suddenly a white mist consumes you. The next thing you see is your Chocobo walking through a field of stars to arrive at a planetoid topped by a temple full of various-colored Chocobos and ruled over by a giant Chocobo who grants him new powers, then suddenly the sequence ends and you and your powered-up Chocobo are back where you found the chest.

 

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