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wpot posted...

I would agree with your assessment. I don't think FF9 is bad, but I don't think it quite reaches the heights of the other two.

My opinion at the time was that it was mostly hugely popular and led to all the "best FF evar!" praise it got mainly because it was a huge nostalgia bait game referencing all the prior FF games, coming on the heels of FFVIII which a lot of people hated at the time. It was also actual fantasy, after the growing steampunk and sci-fi that slowly crept over everything in the prior three games.

My opinion hasn't really changed. Though I think people today are less into it mostly because younger gamers don't really have the early FF nostalgia that it panders to, or have forgotten what it felt like at the time.



Cashier posted...

8 is best ff though

That's an odd way to spell "worst"!



Garlands_Soul posted...

8 I couldn't get very far because I didn't like how any of it worked

I beat the whole game, but spent most of that time hating it, hating everyone who made it, and hating myself for feeling compelled to finish it out of a sick sense of obligation to the franchise (and it's a very large part of why I no longer feel any sense of obligation to or fondness for the franchise at all).

The terrible mechanics didn't help, but I was far more turned off by the terrible characters, the terrible story, and the bland summons. Even the music was bland. (And I hated the card game as well!) About the only positive thing I can say about it was that the graphics looked nice (which has basically become the main selling point of the franchise ever since).

I still debate whether FFVIII is worse than FFXII, because I'm not sure which is the worse response to a game - apathy or hate. But those are still easily my two worst FF games ever made, without question.