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JaH Reborn posted...

Didn't people used to hate Final Fantasy IX?

Not really. Even at the time it was released, people loved it because it went back to the style of game that FFVII and FFVIII sort of shat on, and it had a main character who was actually likeable and not an emo douchenozzle. Add to the fact that it went HARD to the nostalgia well and referenced a ton of stuff from earlier games, and it got a ton of praise. Especially from people who hated FFVIII (which may have been part of the reason WHY it wound up being the sort of game it was in the first place).

It was basically positioned to be the last "old school" Final Fantasy before the franchise stepped fully into the "new era" (ie, implying that the PS2 was a qualitative shift beyond what had gone before), and as such, was pretty well-received. And it's reputation only grew even more positive once people started realizing that the "new era" in general was going to turn out to mostly be a bucket of warm diarrhea (ie, pretty much everything post-FFX).


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