Final Fantasy IX for PlayStation 1

Pros: Classic Final Fantasy Elements, Cool Skill/Magic System, Fun Battle System, Nice Balanced Difficulty
Cons: Some Dull Environments

Ever since the series' premiere on the Playstation console, Final Fantasy has become a huge icon of mainstream video games. With the series' rise of popularity in regions outside of Japan it seemed that Squaresoft began to garner to other markets by ...

Pros: Excellent graphics, engrossing storyline, and solid characters make this a winner.
Cons: It's a little too easy overall.

Pros: Character classes, challenging, excellent music, good graphics, engaging plot
Cons: Confusing card mini-game, a bit short

Note: A copy of this game was provided by Square

Some things drive me nuts more than anything else. One of these things is monkeying with a winning formula. Thus, with the past three Final Fantasy games, I was left with a distinct bad taste...

Pros: EVERYTHING.
Cons: Those big heads...oh why??

Squaresoft started with fantasy RPGs like this one, and finished its run on the PSX with a classic. This game is like every Final Fantasy you've played, but at the same time totally original.

Graphics

Total perfection....

Pros: Great storyline and characters!
Cons: Some blotchy screens, but not many

If you told me a month ago that I would be playing Final Fantasy 9, and actually be liking the game I would have laughed right in your face. I used to hate any RPG. I thought that those games were stupid and pointless. I also thought that they...

Pros: Unbelievable FMVs, graphics & music score. Superbly done storyline.
Cons: Weakness in combat system.

When FF9 hit the stores last October, I remembered seeing at least 2 dozen people, mostly gamer-types in their early 20s forming a queue at the mall, anxious to get their hands on the game they had heard & read so much about. In a move to help regain...

Pros: Engaging Storyline, Tons of Weapons and Spells, Great Ending, Cool Characters
Cons: Game Drags in Certain Areas, Final Bosses are Tough

Since the days of Dragon Warrior for the Nintendo Entertainment system, I have long been a huge fan of role playing games. I recently pulled out my old copy of Final Fantasy IX because I was bored and wanted something different to play. Even though I ...

Pros: awesome game play, everything besides...
Cons: it's the last Final Fantasy on the Play Station

History
When I got my Play Station, along with Final Fantasy VII, I was hooked on RPG’s from then on. I played FFVII day and night and couldn’t seem to stop playing.

Then some time later, Final FantasyVIII came out...

Pros: Huge Storyline, Interesting Characters, Funny Cool Villians, Amazing Graphics
Cons: Music Isn't That Great, A Bit Short If Ya Ask Me!

Final Fantasy 9 is basically, Square's landmark game for them this year. It will be their biggest income for the playstation market and it deserves to be so. It's been in development for years only to be released a few days before my birthday,...

Pros: Graphics, story, Characters, triumphant returns, Character classes etc.
Cons: Card Game, dying breed of game:(

After I was a bit unkind to FFXII I thought I would come back to that franchise and review the last FF title that I felt was truly a great game. Final Fantasy IX may have sold less then the 7th and 8th entries in the series but it is in no way an ...

Pros: Beautiful graphics, plot-twists, engaging story line interesting characters
Cons: Music a bit boring

Final Fantasy IX (FF9)
This is probably the longest review I have ever written on anything on Epinions and it’s not even all I wanted to write but Epinions only allows so many words you see… Nevertheless, I’d like to thank all who were...

Pros: good game better then 8
Cons: not quite has good has 7

The first Final Fantasy game I played was 8, while not horrible it made me more then skeptical about buying FF7, if I didn’t get FF7 for just a dirt cheap price I would never have bought it. I loved FF7 and my newly acquired FF chronicles but was still...

Pros: Well-rounded characters, abilities system, Chocobo Hot & Cold.
Cons: Am I playing a video game or a CG movie?

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Pros: Great graphics with character designs by Yoshitaka Amano again, innovative gameplay, a true Final Fantasy setting, mini-games that are actually fun, battles can be difficult
Cons: Longer load time than previous installments, Thorn and Zorn are VERY annoying, Chocobo Hot & Cold is VERY addictive, battles can be difficult

Once upon a time, long before their was a thing such as the 32-Bit era of gaming, the next generation consoles were known as the upcoming Super Nintendo or already released Sega Genesis. Nintendo and its console at the time, the Nintendo Entertainment...

Pros: Classic, easier gameplay; Rounder characters; A valiant final effort.
Cons: Predictable story; Lousy Trance system.

Final Fantasy 9 changes the direction of the series by tapping its roots.

Final Fantasy 9
AT A GLANCE


Graphics = 4.0
Less proportional character models. More color. Better texture...