word as a kid you found him annoying but as a adult you understand his character.

I always found his rattling armor and sometimes over-exaggerated presentation really funny, especially when he crashed into that tower. So I never despised him, let alone hated. That bears the question, why did you guys hate him?

@@TheMadZocker Maybe because he was a tryhard idk... I never hated him either, not liked but not hated

I didn’t like him because he’s ugly lmao I only liked dagger, zidane, eiko, Beatrix and vivi

@@TheMadZocker I've always liked him a great deal. I think some people dislike him because he antagonized a likable protagonist for a while, and occasionally in an unjustified manner (though not most of the times, since his duty *was* to protect the princess). At first, he also wouldn't see the vices of Queen Brahne. His character growth is awesome, though. From a high maintenance jerk to a loyal friend and comrade.

True!

I disagree. The game's villian and protagonist are clones... Come on.

@@Nope_Datt OK Scoomer

@@recklesflam1ngo968 + Are you saying I don't bathe? Huh?

@Starscream91 kuja is a man....

Roberto XS great point

When you forget Nintendo.

This style to this game is so unique, whimsical and charming. I freaking love it.

they still do, you just need where to look. Hat in Time, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, ULTRAKILL, GRIS and many more are all amazing games with good graphics and gameplay.

@@EpicGamer-fl7fn I think they mean the Triple A stuff. There's no denying that hyper realism has become stagnant in the gaming industry in that regard as they all feel the same.

He has a sad story, but yeah he's awesome!

He's so precious.

Who doesn't? Oh right, Kuja and Elephant queen

My black shih tzu is named Vivi inspired by this game.

I finished the game about 2 weeks ago and yeah now he is my 3rd ore 4th favorite Videogame game character and I would say top 15 ore 20 when it comes to fiction in general.

Me root The characters and atmosphere of this game is unforgettable. The nostalgia is insane 🥲

Me just watched the ending and planning to play the game soon: I 100% agree... xD

Until the 32-bit era devs were battling the technical limitations of the hardware they were targeting, and managed to do really special work as a result.

I never wanted this game to end

I 100% agree!

lol steiner XD

6:11 I never realized how hilarious it is that Vivi just rolls into the poor bastard.

CrappyScrap yeah they need to cut the emo melodramatic bs

You mean like N-Sync...!?

I personally couldn't quite get into 7 and 8 because of their scifi-settings.

Final Fantasy XIV is the one to play then. Sure, it's an MMORPG, but it's among the best to play. With Stormblood about to be released this early summer, now is the time to jump in.

Have to sadly agree with Honey Badger up there, I was delightedly surprised to find out where all the Medieval Fantasy influence hadn't simply ceased altogether. But damn if I'm not a little salty FF7/10 ended up being the blueprint for the main series and not this one. Nine is in its own league. The characters are so well designed and varied and the world truly feels 'fantastic' not just 'reality with fantasy elements' FF14 is free to play up to level 35 now I'd recommend it if you love Nine. Ol' Nobuo Uematsu is the composer of that games soundtrack as well if you need a stamp of quality. The voice acting is the only...lacking element of the game I'd say. So feel free to play the audio in Japanese with subtitles...

Me too. I literally lived in that world long long time ago, somewhat 🥲

I got tears in my eyes. Music and atmosphere of this game is pure nostalgia 🥲

I quote: ''A collection of FF9's FMV cutscenes, recorded from the recently released Steam version.'' (description) You can buy the remastered FF9 Version on Steam ;)

Letfio That's a remaster, not a remake. I want a FFVII Remake kind of thing, where they make the whole game again from scratch and add voice acting, better graphics, remade music and so on.

I actually don't think it can get any better than it already is.

the whole point of ff9 is its a throwback. To remake it is pointless... they could have redrawn the backgrounds though imo.

I agree with you on most area's. the art style is fine and even holds up today just it could use some cleaning up. the music, and graphics are also fine and are on pare with some modern games in area's. in fact most of the game is acceptable by today slandered in most area's only needing some clean up to make it more visualy stunning which we all know they could do. heck nowerday's making high quality cg moves and shorts while time consuming is a simple matter nowadays. take a look at Warcraft cinematic's or overwatch shorts. or even the ff 7 movie or the ff 15 movie. now love it or you hate aside you can't deny honestly its got a lot of good visuals stuff they could use to make the visuals, music and extra better. and not even better just more polished. the only real thing that need major over hauling in my opinion which is completely fine with me if you disagree. but I think the only thing that needs major changing is just the over world. and mostly just the big area's there the camera is all wonky. I mean I have played this game and one of the biggest head aches for me when I tried my hand at it was figuring out what was scenery and what was something that was there to interact with. now I am not hating on the game as they did the best they could for the times. but if I am to be honest if this game got remade from scratch save for the art direction witch only relay needs a touch up job as they say in make up and the music just needing to be made with real interments this time. I would love to see this game with more 3d and over the should camera angles or at the vart least make the environments more fluid and feel less clunky. as if the original game felt less clunk it would be probably my favorite in terms of game play visuals and story. though to be fair you can only realy get on the case of a few ff games for there story at least in the cases of the ones before 10 in my opinion mostly do to the fact that I know presus little about the ones after. but that just becase I was late to the ff part and have not gotten around to playing them. but I would dream of having a remake of this game with bigger area's to explore more stuff to find and more story and cutsceans to enjoy and pleasedon't hate me. but I would like to at least get a sample sheet of voice acting. as if done right it can be amazing. but that's all I got and again its just my opinion and everyone entitled to there own.

It took an alien spacecraft to beat him

Yeah, but these that you are watching right now are from the remade Steam version which has even more improved graphics that is why they look so good.

Well, no they were not running on the PS1. They're just pre-rendered videos that likely took hours to several computers several hours to render at the time.. They would need a console on the level of the PS4 to get anywhere near these visuals in real time.

even today theres not much hardware that can reproduce this cgi in real time.

I'm 20 years old, been playing new games since I was a toddler, and I just started playing Final Fantasy IX this week. And I'M impressed.

When it first came out there was absolutely nothing like it in terms of imagery. It still takes my breath away.

Like reading a good book or watching the finale to a good series. You don't want it to end.

i absolutely adore the cast of characters in this game and the way they were all respected by the development team. this is a more relatable story than anything you will find in hollywood

11:06 When you can almost hear "Oh Shit!" from faceless character in the voiceless cutscene

This goes a bit of topic but facial expresions are one of ther reasons I love certan characters. Fore example Reg from Made in Abyss. His expresions are cute, funny and very intense at times.

It really makes it stand out from the rest. It's so charming.

They actually cared due that it made it a better selling product. Now it's more about the microtransactions AND the addictive gameplay.

That's because a lot of games nowadays are like 60% cut scenes and 40% gameplay. When cut scenes happened in games like Final Fantasy 7/8/9, it felt special because they only happened every once in awhile, so they felt special and important to the story.

The theme of the game is classic black and white silent films older generations believe that films are better when theirs no voice and it's just music, gives off a more emotional impact as u you can see in the cutscenes, characters portray emotions heavier than when you have them speak

Anthony J. Well have to said that FF series always have a dramatic cut scene and perfect CG. Even most of the people don’t like FFXV, but the cg cutscene and music of XV still keeps the perfection of the game.

For me they were. People put more fantasy into their games back then and made cut scenes to be special part of the story while now games are like watching a movie. No fantasy at all because people try to make them more realistic. 4K graphics just make games more like simulations while games that have a great story don't need that. People have to realise that making games using a lot of fantasy will make them better(this depends of course). For example final fantasy has many different unique stories and timelines. And Mario and Luigi also have unique gameplay and thats why they are considered as one of the best RPGs. Cutscenes usually controlled the feelings of the player. That's what I believe at least.

Sadly they never kissed in the game. :(

I replay it every two years or so, and it never loses that magical immersion for me

@@StoneyWoney I played ff9 at least 20 times from 2001-2006. I no longer have access to PS1 after that so I didn't played it again. I still have FFX and ff12 in my PS2 until today, I play them at least once every year. But if there's a way to play ff9 again, I'd buy a unit to play this game again, the nostalgia is real 🥲

@@taroupriapus9760 I'm playing it on Steam. Mixed with the Moguri mod, it turns this version easily into the best-looking FFIX version. The cinematics in my video were recorded before Moguri was a thing, though. So there are no increased frames per second to be seen here.

me too .🤗

@sp33dy10 I also felt I lived in the settings of FFX (especially Besaid, Bikanel, and Calm Lands). And also in FF12 (feels like home at Rabanastre, Zertinan Caverns, North Bank Village of Estersand and Balfonheim 🥰).

Ff9 and FFX are the best rpg. Orher great games ill always cherish are resident evil 2&4, god of war, The last of us, Prince of Persia, devil may cry, and crash bandicoot

Omg I had never seen these details before. Seeing Zidane blowing a raspberry and then shaking his butt made me laugh. He's such a troll haha

Oh my freaking God, I never noticed that before. My eyes were always on the queen when watching that part. That is so like zidane. 🤣🤣

I think this game would be amazing if it gets a Remake, the world is so vivid, beatiful and complex, there is a lot to explore, best final fantasy for me aside from 7. Maybe in a far away future

Poor Garnet, after all she'd been through I hated to see that. But at least she got a happy ending.

But Buzz is more confident and competent. I guess it all comes from that spiral from his chin.

Best moment in the whole fuckin franchise! I still get emotional watching that, it's so perfect and hype. The music that plays on that scene is my favourite FF track of all time. It's the same kind of epic and tear inducing as watching The Lord of the Rings, watching the characters on their last struggle for victory with amazing music in the background

I'm a freaking sucker for moments like that. When everyone, Alexandria, Lindblum, and Burmecia all come together to fight a common enemy.

That industrial sound that kicks in gives me FF7 Turks vibes. So awesome!

Truly

Charming is the best way to describe FF9

He also walks kinda in a stop motion-ish type of way too.

Blank getting petrified was one of my most emotional FF moments.

I have to stop watching this. I don't have 60-70 hours to spare at the moment! :(

FFX is equally unforgettable, loved everything in that game too🥲

Ff9 and FFX ... Can't decide 🥲

probably not remastered, i'm sure they rendered the clips in close to native resolution but had to down-size to fit the psx cd format

FFX and ff9 - top 2 in my books

Pink Panda I think it would be a OVA if the game is really long.

*XI

poor Vivi 😥😥

One of the most touching moment in a video game...I always shed a tear...

They literally changed completely post FFX and its so obvious the enix takeover had an effect

That's the eidolon Alexander. Can only be summoned by the combined powers of garnet and eiko, never seen on actual gameplay

We have waited 21 years for more. Kids or not I’m going to watch it!