Why FFIX is the Worst FF EVER!

[Jack]

Some more discussion points.

AMARANT (Spoilers)
Amarant isn’t a “don't talk to me" "I don't care" "too-cool-for-school" character with a nifty weapon. He’s a silent, unlovable character who tries to be a rebel. Squall & Cloud had problems (Squall lost his “sister”, adopted to fight, and has a pressuring rival. He doesn’t know his parents, and can’t remember his childhood at the orphanage.) And (Cloud tried to join SOILDER, failed, became a lowly guard, killed Sephiroth and lived a lie. He was also warped by Jenova, Hojo & his rival.).
Hell, even Kimarhri in FFX siad somthing, and the rerason why he was silent because his WHOLE race wasn't big on talking.
Amarant had no problems. He just wanted to be cool. I felt he was just added to fill in an empty space in the roster. Also, his story has gaps in. Why did he become a thief? When did he meet Zidane? About that bit in Ispen’s castle. Why was he trying to be a rebel? What did he have to prove? If was SUCH a rebel, why did he join a bunch of miss-matched guys on saving the world. Cloud got wrapped up in it, thanks To AVALAUCHE and Squall had a mission that went wrong (He should have assinated the Sorceress)

KIDNAP
Yes, Zidane acting cheeky WAS funny. But, why act that way. A knight with a big sword was threating a street rat, with a tiny dagger. Obvoisly, Zidane must be a prick if he’s gonna be a idiot like that. Also, why didn’t he explain himself to Stenier. It would have caused less commotion, and might have got to Lindblum without getting shot down. (I understand it was there for the game to be exciting, but it was a kinda weak way of getting the plot going)
Kidnap is a big crime, even bigger if it’s the Queens daughter. Surely, if a petty thief was going along with this, he’d be VERY nervous. But Zidane wasn’t. That either means he is a stupid risk taker with no fear of death, or he KNEW that the king was behind it and knew that he would back them up should hey need it. Or maybe, they were blackmailed into it by Cid.

STORY (Spoilers)
Thanks for the heads up on some parts of the story. Heres some more bits that I felt, didn’t make sense.
· When you find out Garnet’s real name, why doesn’t Garnet find out, or Zidane tries to protect the truth from her? In FF8, Selphie his the truth about her from Squall and Co (In Trabia Garden)
· Why could Kuja make Black Mages out of Mist?
· If you can see Gaia from Terra, and you can see Terra from Gaia, why didn’t anyone know (Except Kuja & Garland) about the two’s existence. Why didn’t anyone mention, “Terra’s looking rather Red tonight” or sumthing. Noone mentions it!
· Why do Genomes have tails?

TERRA (Spoliers)

AmericanBadass:

How could you miss this part of the story? Ok, Terra was once a thriving planet. But, for some reason, Terra started to decline in prosperity. The scientists on the planet did everything they could to prevent it, but ultimately, could not stop the process. So, in desperation, the Terrans created Garland and left him in charge of assimilating Terra into the thriving Gaia while they slept. Garland attempted to assimilate Terra into Gaia by force, but succeeded in only a psuedo-assimilation, meaning that the assimilation was incomplete, but that they were still signs of Terra on Gaia, most notably Oeilvert, Ispen's Castle, and more than likely, the four shrines.

After his failed assimilation, Garland went for a more roundabout, but effective way of assimilation. He figured out that Gaia's cycle of life consisted of souls being born out of the crystal, living life in a corporeal body until the body dies, at which point the soul returns to the crystal. Garland designed the Iifa tree to act as a block for the Gaian souls returning to the crystal. That's why he wanted Kuja to get wars raged on Gaia, so that the cycle can be accelerated. At the point in which the last soul on Gaia left to return to the crystal, the Iifa tree would then cycle the Terran souls (who were in hibernation since their civilization fell) into the souless Genomes, who would then in habit Gaia which would be completely be assimilated by Terra since there were no new Gaian souls being transferred to Gaia.

Ok. I believe all that happened, but I have a few questions with it.
· What did Terra once look like? Was it bit like Gaia?
· What do you mean decline? Am I right in saying that the WHOLE planet was falling apart, with would explain the almost skelaton like layout and style of Terra.
· If Garland was created, does that mean he is a Geonome as well?
· Why was assimulating into gaia the only way?
· What did Terraen’s look like? Wouldn’t it been cool if Garland showed his masters as they slept.

Oh yeah, if Kuja and Zidane were dolls, why did they have names> Did Garland give Kuja that name and Baku give Zidane that name?

Another problem with Terra. (This is just a personal thing) If it was a planet, wouldn’t it been better to have a world map. FF5 did just that. I feel that would have been better then just making it a FIELD map.

MOGS
I love mogs, and I was disappointed when FFX didn’t have any living breathing Moogles. However, there were far too many Mogs. It just got a bit sickly sweet after a while. Also, why aren’t any Moomba’s in it. I no, they are from F8’s world. But Moogles & Chocobo’s are in almost all the FF worlds, so why not Moombas? That would have been a great reference to a previous FF, and since they are great creatures, would have been a nice addition. But no, they add those Qus.

QUIENA (Spoilers)
I hate this character. Toatlly unlikable, sice all it does is obsess with food. Fat, Ugly, terrible weapon (A FORK!!!!???) and altogether hideous appeareance. I’m not saying characters have to look nice, but other then his blue magic, was a pretty appaling character. His story (Or what little there was) was weak. Something to do with a dude in a cave near Treno? What story is that?

MUSIC
Since someone brought it up again, I’ll carry on. I feel the music for FFIX is under par, and isn’t original. When the FF went to CD, I felt the muisic quality would get higher. And I wasn’t diaspointed.

FF7 had moody tones, but they were still cartoonish.
FF8 had dark, menacing songs & tunes. Good Piano bits, and for the fierst time, a theme song with words!
FF9 had some really plinkt tunes, some fair piano bits, Hardly any grown up dark, powerful songs & a not-as-good theme song with words
FF10 had some annoying tunes (Dire Thunder Plains, but some FANTASTIC ones and two great songs (Suteki da Ne & song of prayer)

So I see FF9 as the weakest link there. It’s just the music wsn’t inspiaing. Have you seen Donnie Darko? The music fits the tone, and makes some good scenes great. However, some FF9 ones didn’t fit the scene, and that’s why I didn’t like it. The tune I didn’t think fitted the scene was Alexandria when Vivi wanted the ticket.

WEAPONS (Spoilers)
I like the weapons. (Ruby, Omega & Ultima) They were cool if bloody hard. Plus, if this is a look back to previous FF's then having the weapons would be a clever idea. Even if as something you see in a painting, or a book.
Oh yeah, Ultima & Omega Weapon in FFX are VERY EASY.
Ultimate & Diamond & Emerald in FF7 are also Easy (If you have the Underwater Materia for Emarald).m It's only Ruby (ff7) & Omega (ff8) that are F***Ing Hard. i haven't beaten Omega, but I Have beaten Ruby.

MAGIC
why reduce Ultima to THAT? I like FF7's, FF6's, & FF8's version of Ultima then this one. This one was poor. Although, it looked like APOCLYSPE from FF8 a bit (Lasers)
Some of the Magic attacks looked a bit lame I must say. Still, Square were trying a "new" style so I can't complain. Ho hum.

Like I’ve said before. I just didn’t feel that FFIX was a bad FF. Not a bad GAME. But a BAD FF