one of the songs that somehow slipped my memory, likely due to how quickly i usually go through the place XD. a somber feeling often found in dig sites...

Another one of those tracks that you'd be surprised they exist because they were used in a missable location

This is where we meet Amarant for the first time!

0:00 This cave system connects to a whole other continent (and it even has miners working in it!) and yet the writers are still going with the idea that the Outer Continent is "unexplored". This is where I will fully address IX's shoddy world building: Apparently the rest of the world is "unexplored"… Despite a great library called Daguerreo being on a part of the Forgotten Continent where you can find Mist Continent characters. The Mist Continent's postal network HQ, Mognet Central, is on a part of the Outer Continent. Ipsen's Castle, that's on the Forgotten Continent, is named after a famous explorer from the Mist Continent, Ipsen, who found it, and there is even a random tourist attraction in Esto Gaza on the Lost Continent (which comes out of nowhere, after never being mentioned before and apparently people from Lindblum take vacations there), making all of the "unexplored" statements to be complete bull. Also, the other continents are mostly empty, with the Lost Continent just having Esto Gaza and the Outer Continent having the dwarf village of Conde Petie (The Black Mage village is a very recent edition) both of which are small. Shouldn't a lot of settlements from the Mist Continent have been made on these other continents by now? Cid even has a map of the entire world of Gaia, which, as he just stated, is "ancient", meaning that the geography of the whole world was known for quite a while, and Alexandria and Lindblum even have harbours and a ton of ships, shouldn't they have sailed to these other continents by now, explored them and build more villages and towns there? This is all poorly constructed world building. (Want to look at real masterful world building? See 'One Piece') 1:00 Lani "Geez... That didn't do much good." So Lani was the one responsible for the Armodullahan monster chasing you? Where did she even get that creature and also those swinging axes that tried to slow you down? Heck, how did Lani even find us and know we'd be coming here to Fossil Roo? This is never explained. 1:23 Lani "I'm Lani. I'm under order by the queen to find you, Princess." Dagger "My mother?" "What does my mother want with me?" "I am not returning to Alexandria." We are literally just repeating the Black Waltzes plot, and Dagger's statement is pointless since she already returned to Alexandria before anyways and the damage was already done. Lani "Retrieving the pendant far outweighs the safety of the princess." Zidane "...What do you mean by that?" Lani "I meant exactly what I said." "My orders don't include Princess Garnet's safe return." That and the "assassination of Vivi" which Brahne apparently put on the same level as the retrieval of the pendant… for no real reason. But Lani never brings that up. In fact, she doesn't even show any interested in Vivi or Zidane in this whole scene and is only concerned with getting the pendant back, making that whole assassination order even more pointless. Dagger "What...? My mother would never order that." …Are you freaking serious? How dense are you? Your mother said that she was going to cut off your head earlier on the Red Rose in plain text. Or did Zidane stupidly never bother to tell you that? (Not to mention everything else that has happened since you returned home like a dummy) Or are you still in your dumb and implausibly naïve denial? Dagger just keeps getting more and more flanderized. 2:00 Lani "What a drag." "I'll let you guys go for now!" What about getting back-up from Amarant? (Whom was strangely not here, which makes no sense because he and Lani are supposed to be working together. The game designers probably just didn't want him to join so early because of the party limit, even though they could have just had the switch playable party members option on the menu. The designers were just too lazy to do what FFVII, VIII and X did, which had you being able to manually switch party members much earlier in the games than with IX)

アーモデュラハンに追われている時はバトル2、 ラニ戦の後のマップからはガルガン・ルーが流れるので聴くタイミングが短い曲

Fun fact: the girl Amarant encounters in the ending scene is Lani dressed up to be more lady-like.

Mysterious.

Vivi is the Best a mag😂

I wish this track was used more in the game, probably the most underrated on the OST

Was this one in the Japanese version only? As I don't remember this one at all in the Europe version

Awesome [Video Soundtrack] Fossil Roo [FINAL FANTASY IX] Video.