Retarded? That wasn't a joke. I might be a little retarded ngl. If you're laughing at me for that, that's on you. Also I didn't make a racist joke about chefs. Did you delete the comment about Quina? Yeah, Protect Girls doesn't work on him because he's not a girl.

People always walk back in platformers and side scrollers and stuff, but you're rarely rewarded for it in other genres. I figured it was worth a try and it certainly paid off. Mick is an absolute brother.

Me too tbh. It's a toss up between 4 and 9, but 9 is better in pretty much every way on an objective level

I think about that a lot. Sometimes it keeps me up at night.

Another victim claimed to a horrible joke :)

They're certainly synonymous, though you can be nationalistic without being blindly loyal, and loyal without being nationalistic. I'd say Steiner is both for sure.

You got it mixed up fam

Hey, at least you learnt something!

Quina always seemed like a dude to me, but he's not even human he's just some big gourmand blob so I guess you're not supposed to think of him like that. Though, I've seen a lot of dudes who'd fall into the same category... Might as well be an alien or a monster. The fact that he can't equip female-only items makes a better case for thinking he's a dude, and he's a bit of a bro, you know. Big tongue, aggressive posturing, eating raw animals, Quina's on a sigma grindset. That said, the requirements for equipping female equipment is that you're explicitly female, so it makes sense that a genderless monster doesn't fit that criteria, which genuinely begs the question of why they'd call Quina female in the Spanish version but not allow him to equip those items. Logically, Quina is an absolute nightmare who makes no sense but that's why I like him. The Qu raise so many unanswerable questions which is why they're a great fantasty race.

That's exactly where I wanna be.

Wait, for real? I must've completely missed both of those. I remember the NPC, I think it was a Red Mage, mentioned Oglop Oil, but i legit never saw the signs. I did not open up my eyes and saw the sign. PART 2 INCOMING LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@@Caspicum Also another thing I've never seen anyone point out, During the 3rd fight vs steiner everyone is telling him to look behind him but he refuses to. Then when you enter treno Blank says something like "whats behind u" and he actually looks. Small character growth.

That's fascinating. I get the same thing with Chrono Trigger. I missed the SNES version, I don't think we got the PS1 version in Australia, and I couldn't emulate it until many years after it came out, but it still gives me those nostalgia chills. Some games just have 'it', which is a testament to their quality.

I legit couldn't disagree if I wanted to

That's a good point. It didn't make much sense to me, as he's a Sealion, not an Icelion, but I guess the Black Mage was likely just blasting that top area with ice and the Sealion could've lived there in the climate transitionary area before he rocked up. Also strange we never see the bell jingling again...

lol

Dude, I'm so there if they do it. FFIX has one of the best worlds and I'd love to see what they could do with new tech, new battle systems, and a heap of added character development for the cast - especially Amarant.

It's Japan in the late 90s. The world hadn't gone insane at that point.

@@DanteWolfwood Define insane for me there bruv.

I think that's something they could address in a remake. It would also just be less awkward to say "they" instead of that "s/he" pronoun in the initial translation.

I haven't heard of this guy, but it's a damn shame when people who make video game stuff go crazy and dive into other topics, or just disappear. I like the Motorhead approach: Play the same song for 40 years and then die, but play it as loud as you can every time. I just wanna talk about games and make some shit jokes, so thank you for being here.

You can't see it, but I am bowing.

Honestly, the solid translation of FF9 does a lot of the heavy lifting, which previous games didn't really get. The only other game I'd say that's even close to 9, would have to be 8 in terms of how many things need to function in the background for the world to make sense. They straight up just have car rental services that magically ward off giant fiends. I appreciate the compliment though, and hope you'll seriously consider taking it slower with games in the future! JRPGs can be tedious at times, but there's also a lot of goodies under the hood.

Oh damn I didn't connect that Lani living with the Moogles and the Inn review. sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit. I thought it wasn't even worth mentioning. 20 years or so for the war seems about right for a generation of people to be lopsided sex-wise. I do remember Steiner lost his parents in a war or something, but I think that was in one of those character lore books Square released, not in the actual game. That would've been presumably 20-30 years before the game began. Beatrix is only 27-28 according to the Wiki, and Steiner is 33, so they would've been kids, but they'd still be able to recount war. I guess that means there've been more recent wars, likely within the past decade as I don't think Beatrix was out there cutting down rats during her teen years, but you never know. There're definitely smaller nations implied on the Mist continent, but we don't see them in-game, maybe they just did a really good job wiping them out.

​@@Caspicum Its weird that her age is stated to be that then. Her entire reputation is about "Oh, I once killed a hundred KNIGHTS singlehandedly". Thats no small scuffle, that's a battlefield. So she was definitely involved in a war somewhere. It wouldnt be a rebellion either. So if she was 16 or 18 during a wartime, that would put a war at.... 10 years prior to the game? Which ALSO wouldnt make sense, because there's no country she could have been at war with: Lindblum and Alexandria were allies for a long time (as Cid and Garnets [adoptive] father were very close friends). So that would leave Burmecia and Cleyra, and we know Cleyra has been sealed off for a hundred years. According to the Wiki, Alexandria and Burmecia had been in a war.. but 40 years before the start of the game, in dummied-out dialogue. Which... would make more sense. The signost you read has the name "Cid VIII", which is the father of the current regent, Cid IX (also a sneaky reference. The 9th Cid in the 9th FF game? Well he would be if FF1 had a Cid, which it didnt.. so uh.. nvm this). I had to backtrack a little through your video and the various hints given for this. We know there hasnt been a war with the current Regent Cid, and he has been in charge for many years (though we dont know for how long, unless we use the wiki). We dont know how long there has been peace, but suffice to say he hasnt been involved in any. His father however "led the airship armada in 1771, and brought peace. died in 1780". We do know that Garnet mentions only knowing "uncle cid" and not his father, so we can assume that for the past 10 or so years, he's been in charge. This would mean if there has been exactly 10 years (garnet arrived when she was 6?), and he was crowned Regent in 1780, there would have been a war roughly 19 year previously Now, if we take the anniversary part as a quote made when peace was established, than 20 years would actually make sense: the quote by Cid VIII is 20 years old, the cable cars are relatively new (though not JUST new, so we can add maybe a minimum of a year to this?). Or.. that was my first thought at least. See, my guess is, Alexandria and Burmecia were at war 20 years ago, and Lindblum just intervened and told both "play nice, or else". But thats a guess. Either way, it would make no sense for Lindblum to be directly in a war with either nation. Alexandria and Burmecia would make more sense due to the border locations (ground level). But even with all of that, Beatrix' story STILL makes no sense. Either her reputation is a lie, or her age is just wrong. The math on this just does not check out. Honestly, the backstory should have just been "she once killed a hundred raiders/bandits/pirates in battle". But Knights? Well, anyway... I absolutely loved your video. Ive been going through some of your vids like the item only BoF3/LoD runs, the Twilight of the Spirits video, etc. And all I can say is... thats quality entertainment. And you are an absolute madlad for the item-only runs. Thank you for all the effort!

To ease your mind, I watched a sick series on the translation efforts of Final Fantasy IX recently, I'll link it below, and I could've sworn he mentioned that the 100 knight line was slightly mistranslated, which would make this whole scenario make a little more sense. Also women do lie about their age but idk to what extent a knight like Beatrix would even care about that. Probably not even a consideration, especially given there're wikis likely based off the word of the designers, and Beatrix is my dream woman who would never do that :^) I appreciate the kind words, I've always come out the other side of videos being like "Man this sucks" so when people dig them, it's a great feeling. It's good to be wrong. Here's your video, I think this is the episode: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y594oJyQpszFg2Q.html

@@Caspicum Thats a great series! I never liked how Beatrix has that dumb "backseat comment" . Like, lady... are you implying you'd feel better if YOU were the one who committed genocide? What?

A few people have criticised the backgrounds, and yeah, some are a bit muddy, but considering the vanilla version square gave us, we're lucky a dedicated team of modders are trying to improve it. It is simply the best version out there. Also the instant-steal option is crazy good.

I didn't make a single racist comment.

People?

8:42 , 19:00 , 21:58 I like you and I like your content, but you just kept sprinkling in comments like this. If you did it once, whatever, but after the one at 21:58 it started to show me a theme. I kinda stopped watching after that. I don't know if you have more. I don't know what your intent is, and sorry for potentially ascribing one to you, but it just doesn't look good to me....

@@Tetsaga Bro I watched at all those timestamps and I don't see anything racist. Are you sure you aren't projecting?

The one at 8 minutes was just a silly little joke where they were denying Eiko food, then ran away calling her their favourite word. I thought it was funny, they don't owe her shit and she is a triflin' ass beggar. 19 minutes was a colourful way of questioning whether the royals of the two major forces employed slaves, or were actually paying the little dudes. Back in the day, African warlords would trade gun powder, and first-world utility for their own men, who would get shipped off to countries like America to become slaves, so it was really just a light-hearted way to question the intent of the rulers, nothing against the little chef dudes. The one at 22 minutes was a joke about head chefs being coke fiends, I just did a race bait and switch. I knew it was risky, but I think it paid off. I wanted people to think I was talking about black people and actually being racist, then subvert it with my real intent. Effectively, I wanted the "Oh thank god" response, keep people on their toes. If I wanted to be racist, I'd just do it tbh, I wouldn't try to hide it in a video about a game. If you still don't like it, that's cool, but the only people I'd actively dunk on are video essayists, they're sub-human.

I have footage of me going through the key item section and reading all the descriptions of everything I got, I didn't want to constantly grind the video to a halt to show it off, but there's no doubt that's one of the least-explored menus in the game.

@@Caspicum I only found out after getting the key item from Baku in the crashed airship that key items could be examined. So it wouldn't be until my next playthrough that I would see it.