Quote Originally Posted by The Crystal
Zeromus_X said:
"*Iifa Tree
Necron does not have a back story. Why do people feel the need to explain things that aren't supposed to be explained? It's a fantasy RPG, they can have a little lee-way.
Now,
*repeats what was already said before, in the thread*"

In my opinion, everyone that say something like this, is trying to bash the game. People analyse things that don't have explanations, in FFVII and FFVIII, but when they are talking about FFIX, instead of trying to analyse the game(and find some answers to the mysteries), they just say "this is just a plot hole", just because they don't like the game, and try to make the game seem to be crap.
Of course that i can be wrong about you Zeromus_X, but this is the impression that i feel, when someone talk like this about the game.
And about Necron, me and Goldenboco already give the most logical explanation about his existence.
Trust me, I'm not bashing the game. Nor do I think it's a plot hole, I wouldn't see why Deus ex Machina are all plot holes as then you'd have a great chunk of the series that would have 'plot holes'.

Well, to be perfectly honest, FFIX doesn't really require much thought to figure it out. FFVII and VIII were always ambiguous and had lots of symbolism and what-not (and many things answered in the Ultimania guides), but FFIX was pretty straight forward. Seeing as how FFIX is a tribute to the series, it isn't so hard to accept that Necron is just a Deus ex Machina final boss that the creators put in for kicks (see: Cloud of Darkness, Zeromus, X-Death). I'm not really a fan of over-analyzing games, since most information can be taken from the game or from Squre's nifty official guide books. But, to each their own.

Quote Originally Posted by Gilgamesh
Put simply Necron is the true form of the Lifa Tree.
It might be hard to see, but it's really a capitalized 'I'. (FFIX's font doesn't help this much.) It's really Iifa Tree. 'Lifa Tree' would've made the 'Tree of Life' symbolism a bit more obvious though.