Man, I know not everyone loves FFIX as much as I do, but I don't think I've ever encountered any Final Fantasy fan who actually hates it... First time for everything, I guess.
Man, I know not everyone loves FFIX as much as I do, but I don't think I've ever encountered any Final Fantasy fan who actually hates it... First time for everything, I guess.
The dialogue and direction in this game is spot-on. Probably the best in the series, or at the very least the best from the first 10 games. They'd been trying to nail world-building and writing in this way since VI, but only in IX did the detail, creativity, and actual ability to translate into flawless English come together.
VII and VIII come close, although VII has its well-known disability with actually speaking coherent English though the setting and story are probably the best in the series. VIII comes even closer, but doesn't quite hit the nail on the head when it comes to sharp dialogue and world building.
So IX and XII are the pinnacle of non-cringe worthy writing in the series, although completely different in their respective approaches.
How is Quina offensive? Quina isn't even human. Nothing about Quina's ambigous sex is offensive.id have to go with or what, the start of the downfall was the rat with chicken legs, wtf?, then when it got to the character of Quinna (a huge FU to the LGBT community) i just could not stay interested or take the game seriously anymore, first it patronizes then insults me so FU <acronym title="Final Fantasy IX">FFIX</acronym>, you werent supposed to be a numbered <acronym title="Final Fantasy">FF</acronym> in the first place...
because Transgendered and/or intersexed people being reffered to as "it" is degrading by reducing them from a living, thinking, self aware being to just a thing... Quinna is humanoid with speach, reasoning, opposable thumbs, and so forth... yeah no one even considered Quinna might be intersexed huh?
but in the end this is all silliness and maybe thats not what the creators implied and i took it the wrong way, maybe they just thaught they were being clever by keeping the gender of Quinna a secret from even the main characters, as my little brother pointed out to me after he read my post (and he hates FFIX more than me), so i guess it was prolly just a bad joke that bombed horribly with me...
But Quina is neither intersex or transgendered. Quina either has an ambigous gender or is ungendered. Besides, in most versions of the game, Quina is given definitive gender pronouns. In the English and Japanese version, Quina is referred to as "s/he" as opposed to "it".
Many things about Quina is supposed to be funny, the ambigous gender really not being among them.
yeah maybe im looking too deep into it and should to just go with it, it is fantasy after all and i shouldnt be nitpicking it, besides discussions like that are best left to the Eyes on Each Other board, sorry i braught it into your game guys, i mean no disrespect, truly...
So yeah, about that writing......DOPE.
I remember a year or so ago I tried to start a fandub for this game. It didn't go anywhere, but I'm still interested in doing it people are interested. xD
Also, Freya doesn't have chicken legs o.o Her feet are wrapped in a type of leather for her shoes. She is a rat after all, she can't have normal shoes cause she doesn't have normal feets ^_^ If that's who you were referring to when you meant the rat with chicken legs.
Unless you mean Puck, and again those are just his legs and strange shoes he's a rat they aren't gonna have human legs o.o
even if they're just their shoes, Freya and Puck both being rats, the real question is why anyone would want a rat in their party theyre filthy disgusting animals that live in garbage and carry disease, thats just gross to me... even if i suspend disbelief, after all most of the game is anthropomorphic animals that talk, when animals are used that way in traditional animation the rat is still a representation of the dirty, grimy underbelly of society, thus filthy disgusting animals...
I wasn't quite convinced you were trolling until that post.
And because of that I have to say, knock it off.
not trolling just stating my opinion, but ill stop posting it here where my opinion on this particular game is unpopular... if i offended you i apologize, as my intent was not to offend but to provoke thaught, the characters are after all part of the literary work that comprises the games narrative...
Didn't you know, Freya. Freya the character is disgusting garbage, and Quina is an offensive tranny.
Next thing I know Zidane's offensive because he's party monkey and flings his poo, Steiner's offensive because he's fat, Garnet's offensive because she's anorexic, Vivi's offensive because he's black, Eiko's offensive because she's got a disfigurement on her head, and Amarant's offensive because he's a ginger.