Final Fantasy IX is now on Steam!

I got 100 out of 100 on my first try. dang!

There are rumours that they've made the swordfight and other tricky minigames easier (such as the jump rope) in this release. I don't know how substantiated these claims are, equally likely is that everyone's simply improved since they first played the game 16 years ago!

Originally Posted by Fox

There are rumours that they've made the swordfight and other tricky minigames easier (such as the jump rope) in this release. I don't know how substantiated these claims are, equally likely is that everyone's simply improved since they first played the game 16 years ago!

The last time I played was last year though and make it a mission to play at least once a year and then just a couple months ago I lost to Ingo for the first time ever in the horse race.

Can someone help me adjust to swordfight prompts in this? The game is using Xbox buttons and I'm using PlayStation so it just confuses the hell out of me and makes that trout harder. I've never done so bad.

Config, controls, then custom. At least that changes the buttons. I had to switch to X and O.

Yeah, it took me exactly three tries to impress 100 nobles. Either they nerfed the difficulty or I just sucked every other time I played.

I like how they touched up many of the character models, very nice. Everything seems good with the exception of the backgrounds. They are awful, but no worse than they are in the PlayStation version played on a modern HD television. Shame they couldn't hunt down the original renders and replace them with nice higher res versions.



It really is a shame because I always felt of the three PS1 FF titles, IX had by far the most beautiful pre-rendered environments.

Originally Posted by Freya

Config, controls, then custom. At least that changes the buttons. I had to switch to X and O.

Well I already had my controls customized when I started. It took me about ten tries until I could get it without missing one, but that tenth one I had to go really slow in order to get 100% and funnily enough I got 100 out the gate. They did change the ratio for getting 100 nobles. This is the worst I ever did, but I got it when every other time I nail all the QTEs with absurd speed and get 98 nobles at the most. I think SFX usage prior to that factors in too, but really the first time I've ever got 100 nobles in my dozen playthroughs.

Right now I just made it Dali and saved the game.

I think I just discovered a couple things that I never found in my many previous playthroughs. I never saw the extra bit of dialogue you get if you talk to the pub owner in Dali after you walk out the weapon shop after Dagger. I think in all my dozen other playthroughs I just went straight to the inn. I also never saw Dagger practicing alone in the room when you could look through the window.
I recall looking once when no one was in, but I don't think I ever did it while Garnet was already in.

My roommate who is a big FF fan, but has never beaten IX is finally playing through it! I am very excited to see his reactions to everything. I myself am playing too many games at the moment to dive in right now, but I won't wait toooo long.

16 years later and I'm still finding new things. I was just in Treno when I found out this game gives the characters idle animations. I was on Dr. Tot's steps when I put the controller down to browse for a little bit and then saw Garnet flip her hair. Now at Cleyra I see Zidane stretches like when he wakes up. I wonder what the others do. I think I missed my opportunities for Vivi and Steiner in this playthrough.

Finally beat this game!

A very different experience playing this on Steam, but I don't think I'll be playing this again until I get a new computer. I found a breadth of technical issues while I was playing this. Steiner's hand would vanish during his victory pose. On the Condie Petie Mountain Path when monsters would perform their attack animations the camera perspective would be from my character's and then there were loading issues.

I got the program not responding at least twice every time I booted the game up. I'm not sure if some of these issues were Square's fault or all were due to my computer's low specs, but I won't play again until I get a better PC. I did enjoy the upgraded resolution, the boosters, and other conveniences. I disliked Garnet's updated short hair portrait.

Ahhh I had the hand thing too so it wasn't just you on that one and I have a banging computer. So i'm sure some of these really are just the ports fault.