I always found his rattling armor and sometimes over-exaggerated presentation really funny, especially when he crashed into that tower. So I never despised him, let alone hated. That bears the question, why did you guys hate him?
@@TheMadZocker I've always liked him a great deal. I think some people dislike him because he antagonized a likable protagonist for a while, and occasionally in an unjustified manner (though not most of the times, since his duty *was* to protect the princess). At first, he also wouldn't see the vices of Queen Brahne. His character growth is awesome, though. From a high maintenance jerk to a loyal friend and comrade.
I wish they still made games adorable like this. Everything is so hyper-realism anymore to show off the system's graphical capability but all subtlety and imagination is lost.
they still do, you just need where to look. Hat in Time, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, ULTRAKILL, GRIS and many more are all amazing games with good graphics and gameplay.
@@EpicGamer-fl7fn I think they mean the Triple A stuff. There's no denying that hyper realism has become stagnant in the gaming industry in that regard as they all feel the same.
I finished the game about 2 weeks ago and yeah now he is my 3rd ore 4th favorite Videogame game character and I would say top 15 ore 20 when it comes to fiction in general.
This is just great honestly, I remember playing this and getting so excited when a new cut scene started, this was one of the best games in FF history in my opinion. Really lived up to the name of the game and just made you so invested in the characters and story. You didn’t play this game just to beat it like games now, you played it because you were living in that world when you played it. Amazing and all without a single word in the scenes
Until the 32-bit era devs were battling the technical limitations of the hardware they were targeting, and managed to do really special work as a result.
Final Fantasy XIV is the one to play then. Sure, it's an MMORPG, but it's among the best to play. With Stormblood about to be released this early summer, now is the time to jump in.
Have to sadly agree with Honey Badger up there, I was delightedly surprised to find out where all the Medieval Fantasy influence hadn't simply ceased altogether. But damn if I'm not a little salty FF7/10 ended up being the blueprint for the main series and not this one. Nine is in its own league. The characters are so well designed and varied and the world truly feels 'fantastic' not just 'reality with fantasy elements' FF14 is free to play up to level 35 now I'd recommend it if you love Nine. Ol' Nobuo Uematsu is the composer of that games soundtrack as well if you need a stamp of quality. The voice acting is the only...lacking element of the game I'd say. So feel free to play the audio in Japanese with subtitles...
i absolutely adore the cast of characters in this game and the way they were all respected by the development team. this is a more relatable story than anything you will find in hollywood
This goes a bit of topic but facial expresions are one of ther reasons I love certan characters. Fore example Reg from Made in Abyss. His expresions are cute, funny and very intense at times.
I quote: ''A collection of FF9's FMV cutscenes, recorded from the recently released Steam version.'' (description) You can buy the remastered FF9 Version on Steam ;)
Letfio That's a remaster, not a remake. I want a FFVII Remake kind of thing, where they make the whole game again from scratch and add voice acting, better graphics, remade music and so on.
I agree with you on most area's. the art style is fine and even holds up today just it could use some cleaning up. the music, and graphics are also fine and are on pare with some modern games in area's. in fact most of the game is acceptable by today slandered in most area's only needing some clean up to make it more visualy stunning which we all know they could do. heck nowerday's making high quality cg moves and shorts while time consuming is a simple matter nowadays. take a look at Warcraft cinematic's or overwatch shorts. or even the ff 7 movie or the ff 15 movie. now love it or you hate aside you can't deny honestly its got a lot of good visuals stuff they could use to make the visuals, music and extra better. and not even better just more polished. the only real thing that need major over hauling in my opinion which is completely fine with me if you disagree. but I think the only thing that needs major changing is just the over world. and mostly just the big area's there the camera is all wonky. I mean I have played this game and one of the biggest head aches for me when I tried my hand at it was figuring out what was scenery and what was something that was there to interact with. now I am not hating on the game as they did the best they could for the times. but if I am to be honest if this game got remade from scratch save for the art direction witch only relay needs a touch up job as they say in make up and the music just needing to be made with real interments this time. I would love to see this game with more 3d and over the should camera angles or at the vart least make the environments more fluid and feel less clunky. as if the original game felt less clunk it would be probably my favorite in terms of game play visuals and story. though to be fair you can only realy get on the case of a few ff games for there story at least in the cases of the ones before 10 in my opinion mostly do to the fact that I know presus little about the ones after. but that just becase I was late to the ff part and have not gotten around to playing them. but I would dream of having a remake of this game with bigger area's to explore more stuff to find and more story and cutsceans to enjoy and pleasedon't hate me. but I would like to at least get a sample sheet of voice acting. as if done right it can be amazing. but that's all I got and again its just my opinion and everyone entitled to there own.
A voice from the past, joining yours and mine Adding up the layers of harmony And so it goes, on and on Melodies of life, To the sky beyond the flying birds--forever and beyond
To this day this is my favourite FF of all time. The story is amazing... When you think you are finally understanding the game, bam! You are thrown something that blows your mind. Another thing that I love about this game is that literally every character matters and has it's impact on the overall story. I mean, you get to play with pretty much every group of characters very early in the story; the time events just made this really enjoyable since you got to experience the story from pretty much every angle. Also, the way characters develop relationships with one another is great, and how they evolved and grow gives you a strange sense of satisfaction. It is also amazing that every character found its closure and made peace with their past, present and moved on to their future. By the time you know you are heading to the final battle, you just don't want to end the game. Only FF that brings tears to my eyes everytime. The music and the scenarios, along with the way the characters are designed makes this a jewel.
This game changed my life so much it made me so happy I used to play it all the time when I was a kid Steiner was my favourite character and my parents let me be Steiner for Halloween. thanks square
Holy shit I forgot how much shit they threw at Alexander. Also that cinematic where it destroys Bahamut is the absolute most amazing cinematic ever from FF.
That's because a lot of games nowadays are like 60% cut scenes and 40% gameplay. When cut scenes happened in games like Final Fantasy 7/8/9, it felt special because they only happened every once in awhile, so they felt special and important to the story.
The theme of the game is classic black and white silent films older generations believe that films are better when theirs no voice and it's just music, gives off a more emotional impact as u you can see in the cutscenes, characters portray emotions heavier than when you have them speak
Anthony J. Well have to said that FF series always have a dramatic cut scene and perfect CG. Even most of the people don’t like FFXV, but the cg cutscene and music of XV still keeps the perfection of the game.
For me they were. People put more fantasy into their games back then and made cut scenes to be special part of the story while now games are like watching a movie. No fantasy at all because people try to make them more realistic. 4K graphics just make games more like simulations while games that have a great story don't need that. People have to realise that making games using a lot of fantasy will make them better(this depends of course). For example final fantasy has many different unique stories and timelines. And Mario and Luigi also have unique gameplay and thats why they are considered as one of the best RPGs. Cutscenes usually controlled the feelings of the player. That's what I believe at least.
These graphics were run on the PlayStation 1... This game took my breath away as a youngster. To this day they are impressive, especially considering the tech at the time.
Well, no they were not running on the PS1. They're just pre-rendered videos that likely took hours to several computers several hours to render at the time.. They would need a console on the level of the PS4 to get anywhere near these visuals in real time.
Playing it really slow I've noticed things I've missed before, like Zidane making faces and shaking his butt at the queen, and Vivi rolling into Rusty right as he just about gets Sarah back right at 6:12. This is great!
The amount of destruction and hurt in this game is what made it so special to me. It really made me feel the gravity and importance of the quest you were on. Best game ever I want a remake.
I first played this game less than a year ago. The arriving at Lindblum cutscene literally took my breath away. I can only imagine how I'd react if I played the game when it first came out.
I think this game would be amazing if it gets a Remake, the world is so vivid, beatiful and complex, there is a lot to explore, best final fantasy for me aside from 7. Maybe in a far away future
Best moment in the whole fuckin franchise! I still get emotional watching that, it's so perfect and hype. The music that plays on that scene is my favourite FF track of all time. It's the same kind of epic and tear inducing as watching The Lord of the Rings, watching the characters on their last struggle for victory with amazing music in the background
Ff9 and FFX are the best rpg. Orher great games ill always cherish are resident evil 2&4, god of war, The last of us, Prince of Persia, devil may cry, and crash bandicoot
One of the things I like a lot about the characters design is that you can tell Zidane is different from everyone else by just his face (amongst the humanoid characters, of course). The way his face is structured stands out amongst the rest. I'm pretty sure we would notice the difference even without the tail. Also, 4:53 that's the perfect expression for "good grief...".
@@StoneyWoney I played ff9 at least 20 times from 2001-2006. I no longer have access to PS1 after that so I didn't played it again. I still have FFX and ff12 in my PS2 until today, I play them at least once every year. But if there's a way to play ff9 again, I'd buy a unit to play this game again, the nostalgia is real 🥲
@@taroupriapus9760 I'm playing it on Steam. Mixed with the Moguri mod, it turns this version easily into the best-looking FFIX version. The cinematics in my video were recorded before Moguri was a thing, though. So there are no increased frames per second to be seen here.
@sp33dy10 I also felt I lived in the settings of FFX (especially Besaid, Bikanel, and Calm Lands). And also in FF12 (feels like home at Rabanastre, Zertinan Caverns, North Bank Village of Estersand and Balfonheim 🥰).
I like how none of the cutscenes have ANY voice acting, yet they managed to tell a fantastic story just showing these "movie scenes" with some music and ambient sounds at the background.
No voice acting, but you can still relate to the scenes. Especially if you regularly check the ATP (or something, I forgot). I still think that this one is better than ff viii. In ff ix, every character ability is unique and adorable. Not to mention that there's no weird love triangle (or even rectangular) like in ff viii.
Man, what a fantastic game! Steiner used to be my favorite male character. I nicknamed him as my name and Zidane as my brother's name. Also I had an extreme crush on Garnet. Never finished this game unfortunately but I played almost all DISC 1 and loved it, but couldn't pass a certain part. I wanna play it again so badly and finally finish it!
If you compare FF9 with other Play Station games, you must say it at least had a story unlike other games. And it's a long, better created story, not that other garbage we had to endure. And it's not the worst story I've seen, the story of Star Wars Episode 2 is worse in any direction you look at it. So I'd rather call the story of FF9 a soap opera with some bright moments. It's just a wonderful game, everyone likes it, it's even more fun to replay this game than FF7. The graphics were just awesome, they hid so many secrets alongside the game, it doesn't have any glitches, they thought about everything, the music was great most of the time, and it's always again fun playing it. I wish they made games like this today! - I wouldn't recommend watching the story too close, however. The story itself even made a fool of itself when Kuja destroyed Terra, meaning everything we saw was actually a waste, which is why it totally became crazy at the end. The game was actually like FF7 about the Gaia-hypothesis, but it was Gaia against Terra. In this game, however, the story made itself useless because Kuja just destroyed Terra, meaning now it's something else and this real story came to no conclusion and was just nonsense. So just enjoy the game and don't look too direct at it, it could lower the fun to play it, actually.
Recently got the Mugori Mod working on my Steam Deck and its like a whole other game. This is the remake we need because this game is as close to perfect as a game can get. It was charming and beautiful as a child and is even more awesome as an adult.
How can I get the observatory scene in Lindblum fmv 12:20 download? I've been looking and the sites that have the FMV's to download, this scene isn't available.
Used to love the PS1 era Final Fantasy games especially 7 and 9. You knew you'd be getting a game you could spend 100 hours in and get a great story as well as great characters. After FFX the Final Fantasy games went downhill although the 7 remake was very good. Now they just try and squeeze money out of it. Final Fantasy XV was a perfect example. They expected you to buy a movie and then the downloadable content to understand the story. They need to go back to the PS1 era formula: you start off facing a bad guy or corporation but in reality there is a bigger threat; a bit like Thanos in the Marvel films. Over 50 hours you go on a big quest and learn about the characters and a love story usually happens.
I got the game when it first came out on disc and couldnt get into it but now I have it on my switch and play it non stop...just as addicting as when I played ff7...TRUE ART this game is..the story line is unbelievable the graphics on the switch lite are TOP NOTCH for this older game...battle speed is a tad slow but doesent bother me to much ...Vivis story is amazing yet heartbreaking as he is such a cute charachter and so innocent...steiner you want to slap...a game before its time
Fun fact: most of FF9 concepts are inspired by stuff which humanity had in its stolen history. Underground tunnels with maglevs, flying ships on aether steam engines, even Odin is inspired by ancient weapon which destroyed most of American, Siberia and North Africa cities inhabited by almost destroyed race. It's all is still available in akashic records, which are accessible by subliminal consciousness, inspiring artists all over the world.
This must be gaming nirvana, it has to be. I have not beaten all the games (7,8,13) Mainly just because of how daunting they are, but it is by far one of my favorite franchises if not my favorite. I am currently playing 15 and loving it! I plan on playing 9 in the future. I love final fantasy.
the characters in 9 are treated with such care and the story is really about them when it comes down to it. sure it is a crazy fantasy world with a lot going on, but if you are paying attention the whole thing is really about how the cast of characters feel about the world and the situations they are in, rather than the world itself. i think the dev team totally knew what they were doing and this is why there is so much focus on the acting segment at the beginning of the game.
@@nabildanial00 Some may not believe it, but there are some people who never felt anything for Aerith, or even despise her. ...I'm one of the latter ones. Mainly because I dislike her atrocious design / clothing style. :^)
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I used to hate Steiner as a kid. Now he is completely relatable. I hate getting old.
I always found his rattling armor and sometimes over-exaggerated presentation really funny, especially when he crashed into that tower. So I never despised him, let alone hated.
That bears the question, why did you guys hate him?
@@TheMadZocker Maybe because he was a tryhard idk... I never hated him either, not liked but not hated
I didn’t like him because he’s ugly lmao I only liked dagger, zidane, eiko, Beatrix and vivi
@@TheMadZocker I've always liked him a great deal. I think some people dislike him because he antagonized a likable protagonist for a while, and occasionally in an unjustified manner (though not most of the times, since his duty *was* to protect the princess). At first, he also wouldn't see the vices of Queen Brahne. His character growth is awesome, though. From a high maintenance jerk to a loyal friend and comrade.
Same, but replaying this when I got older he is not that annoying to me and relatable.
In the cinematics alone, the emotion the characters are feeling is expressed perfectly without say a word. I loved this game so much.
This game is a masterpiece.
True!
I disagree. The game's villian and protagonist are clones... Come on.
@@Nope_Datt OK Scoomer
@@recklesflam1ngo968 + Are you saying I don't bathe? Huh?
@Starscream91 kuja is a man....
I wish they still made games adorable like this. Everything is so hyper-realism anymore to show off the system's graphical capability but all subtlety and imagination is lost.
Roberto XS great point
When you forget Nintendo.
This style to this game is so unique, whimsical and charming. I freaking love it.
they still do, you just need where to look. Hat in Time, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, ULTRAKILL, GRIS and many more are all amazing games with good graphics and gameplay.
@@EpicGamer-fl7fn I think they mean the Triple A stuff. There's no denying that hyper realism has become stagnant in the gaming industry in that regard as they all feel the same.
This game is a MASTERPIECE. One of the best story games ever. It easily would be converted in a great movie.
I love Vivi.
He has a sad story, but yeah he's awesome!
He's so precious.
Who doesn't? Oh right, Kuja and Elephant queen
My black shih tzu is named Vivi inspired by this game.
I finished the game about 2 weeks ago and yeah now he is my 3rd ore 4th favorite Videogame game character and I would say top 15 ore 20 when it comes to fiction in general.
This is just great honestly, I remember playing this and getting so excited when a new cut scene started, this was one of the best games in FF history in my opinion.
Really lived up to the name of the game and just made you so invested in the characters and story.
You didn’t play this game just to beat it like games now, you played it because you were living in that world when you played it. Amazing and all without a single word in the scenes
Until the 32-bit era devs were battling the technical limitations of the hardware they were targeting, and managed to do really special work as a result.
I never wanted this game to end
I wish the series returned to the fairytale-like style :/
CrappyScrap yeah they need to cut the emo melodramatic bs
You mean like N-Sync...!?
I personally couldn't quite get into 7 and 8 because of their scifi-settings.
Final Fantasy XIV is the one to play then. Sure, it's an MMORPG, but it's among the best to play. With Stormblood about to be released this early summer, now is the time to jump in.
Have to sadly agree with Honey Badger up there, I was delightedly surprised to find out where all the Medieval Fantasy influence hadn't simply ceased altogether. But damn if I'm not a little salty FF7/10 ended up being the blueprint for the main series and not this one.
Nine is in its own league. The characters are so well designed and varied and the world truly feels 'fantastic' not just 'reality with fantasy elements'
FF14 is free to play up to level 35 now I'd recommend it if you love Nine. Ol' Nobuo Uematsu is the composer of that games soundtrack as well if you need a stamp of quality. The voice acting is the only...lacking element of the game I'd say. So feel free to play the audio in Japanese with subtitles...
the best FF ever made seriously.. like these cutscenes are more impressive than A LOT of modern day games...!
I 100% agree!
5:09 will never get old :)
lol steiner XD
6:11 I never realized how hilarious it is that Vivi just rolls into the poor bastard.
2022 and still get the emotion. This game is part of my life, I get older but when I see that, the feeling are still real
2019, and this is still the best game ever ! Truly a timeless masterpiece !
Me just watched the ending and planning to play the game soon: I 100% agree... xD
21:30 When you realize a look on a character's face does more to express emotion then any voice acting could do.
i absolutely adore the cast of characters in this game and the way they were all respected by the development team. this is a more relatable story than anything you will find in hollywood
11:06 When you can almost hear "Oh Shit!" from faceless character in the voiceless cutscene
This goes a bit of topic but facial expresions are one of ther reasons I love certan characters. Fore example Reg from Made in Abyss. His expresions are cute, funny and very intense at times.
FF9 is favorite in the whole series! I hope it gets a remake like FF7 is getting right now. :D
I quote: ''A collection of FF9's FMV cutscenes, recorded from the recently released Steam version.'' (description)
You can buy the remastered FF9 Version on Steam ;)
Letfio That's a remaster, not a remake.
I want a FFVII Remake kind of thing, where they make the whole game again from scratch and add voice acting, better graphics, remade music and so on.
I actually don't think it can get any better than it already is.
the whole point of ff9 is its a throwback. To remake it is pointless... they could have redrawn the backgrounds though imo.
I agree with you on most area's. the art style is fine and even holds up today just it could use some cleaning up. the music, and graphics are also fine and are on pare with some modern games in area's. in fact most of the game is acceptable by today slandered in most area's only needing some clean up to make it more visualy stunning which we all know they could do. heck nowerday's making high quality cg moves and shorts while time consuming is a simple matter nowadays. take a look at Warcraft cinematic's or overwatch shorts. or even the ff 7 movie or the ff 15 movie. now love it or you hate aside you can't deny honestly its got a lot of good visuals stuff they could use to make the visuals, music and extra better. and not even better just more polished. the only real thing that need major over hauling in my opinion which is completely fine with me if you disagree. but I think the only thing that needs major changing is just the over world. and mostly just the big area's there the camera is all wonky. I mean I have played this game and one of the biggest head aches for me when I tried my hand at it was figuring out what was scenery and what was something that was there to interact with. now I am not hating on the game as they did the best they could for the times. but if I am to be honest if this game got remade from scratch save for the art direction witch only relay needs a touch up job as they say in make up and the music just needing to be made with real interments this time. I would love to see this game with more 3d and over the should camera angles or at the vart least make the environments more fluid and feel less clunky. as if the original game felt less clunk it would be probably my favorite in terms of game play visuals and story. though to be fair you can only realy get on the case of a few ff games for there story at least in the cases of the ones before 10 in my opinion mostly do to the fact that I know presus little about the ones after. but that just becase I was late to the ff part and have not gotten around to playing them. but I would dream of having a remake of this game with bigger area's to explore more stuff to find and more story and cutsceans to enjoy and pleasedon't hate me. but I would like to at least get a sample sheet of voice acting. as if done right it can be amazing. but that's all I got and again its just my opinion and everyone entitled to there own.
Strange. There is 35 mins of video and i see only tears in my eyes
Me root
The characters and atmosphere of this game is unforgettable. The nostalgia is insane 🥲
A voice from the past, joining yours and mine
Adding up the layers of harmony
And so it goes, on and on
Melodies of life,
To the sky beyond the flying birds--forever and beyond
I love Vivi, he's so precious.
To this day this is my favourite FF of all time. The story is amazing... When you think you are finally understanding the game, bam! You are thrown something that blows your mind. Another thing that I love about this game is that literally every character matters and has it's impact on the overall story. I mean, you get to play with pretty much every group of characters very early in the story; the time events just made this really enjoyable since you got to experience the story from pretty much every angle. Also, the way characters develop relationships with one another is great, and how they evolved and grow gives you a strange sense of satisfaction. It is also amazing that every character found its closure and made peace with their past, present and moved on to their future.
By the time you know you are heading to the final battle, you just don't want to end the game. Only FF that brings tears to my eyes everytime.
The music and the scenarios, along with the way the characters are designed makes this a jewel.
This game changed my life so much it made me so happy I used to play it all the time when I was a kid Steiner was my favourite character and my parents let me be Steiner for Halloween. thanks square
2:38 20 years later and I still get goosebumps
I got tears in my eyes. Music and atmosphere of this game is pure nostalgia 🥲
2:44 When that music hits. 😢
I'll never forget this game as long as I live
Me too. I literally lived in that world long long time ago, somewhat 🥲
Holy shit I forgot how much shit they threw at Alexander. Also that cinematic where it destroys Bahamut is the absolute most amazing cinematic ever from FF.
It took an alien spacecraft to beat him
is it just me or were cut scenes and overall storylines in videogames better back then?
That's because a lot of games nowadays are like 60% cut scenes and 40% gameplay. When cut scenes happened in games like Final Fantasy 7/8/9, it felt special because they only happened every once in awhile, so they felt special and important to the story.
The theme of the game is classic black and white silent films older generations believe that films are better when theirs no voice and it's just music, gives off a more emotional impact as u you can see in the cutscenes, characters portray emotions heavier than when you have them speak
Anthony J. Well have to said that FF series always have a dramatic cut scene and perfect CG. Even most of the people don’t like FFXV, but the cg cutscene and music of XV still keeps the perfection of the game.
For me they were. People put more fantasy into their games back then and made cut scenes to be special part of the story while now games are like watching a movie. No fantasy at all because people try to make them more realistic. 4K graphics just make games more like simulations while games that have a great story don't need that. People have to realise that making games using a lot of fantasy will make them better(this depends of course). For example final fantasy has many different unique stories and timelines. And Mario and Luigi also have unique gameplay and thats why they are considered as one of the best RPGs. Cutscenes usually controlled the feelings of the player. That's what I believe at least.
@@beyer_the_burger I assume it was how he treated Zidane
These graphics were run on the PlayStation 1... This game took my breath away as a youngster. To this day they are impressive, especially considering the tech at the time.
Yeah, but these that you are watching right now are from the remade Steam version which has even more improved graphics that is why they look so good.
Well, no they were not running on the PS1. They're just pre-rendered videos that likely took hours to several computers several hours to render at the time.. They would need a console on the level of the PS4 to get anywhere near these visuals in real time.
even today theres not much hardware that can reproduce this cgi in real time.
I'm 20 years old, been playing new games since I was a toddler, and I just started playing Final Fantasy IX this week. And I'M impressed.
When it first came out there was absolutely nothing like it in terms of imagery. It still takes my breath away.
Playing it really slow I've noticed things I've missed before, like Zidane making faces and shaking his butt at the queen, and Vivi rolling into Rusty right as he just about gets Sarah back right at 6:12. This is great!
Omg I had never seen these details before. Seeing Zidane blowing a raspberry and then shaking his butt made me laugh. He's such a troll haha
Oh my freaking God, I never noticed that before. My eyes were always on the queen when watching that part. That is so like zidane. 🤣🤣
I decided to play this game while quarantine
I already have been playing 40hours and still exciting
I don't want to finish this game so bad
Like reading a good book or watching the finale to a good series. You don't want it to end.
10:26
Zidane: Why don't you do that more often?
Vivi: Because it blew half our CGI budget!
The amount of destruction and hurt in this game is what made it so special to me. It really made me feel the gravity and importance of the quest you were on. Best game ever I want a remake.
That moment when Zidane finally got a hug from Garnet.....
Sadly they never kissed in the game. :(
This was the best FF.
This IS the best FF.
20:36 still my favorite cutscene, my precious Garnet 🥰💖
I first played this game less than a year ago. The arriving at Lindblum cutscene literally took my breath away. I can only imagine how I'd react if I played the game when it first came out.
I think this game would be amazing if it gets a Remake, the world is so vivid, beatiful and complex, there is a lot to explore, best final fantasy for me aside from 7. Maybe in a far away future
20:35 the music with this scene made it my favorite. Just gave you tons of emotion s to process!
30:22 When the Armada came out of fking no where to help cut a swath to the tree. My personal favorite Cinematic from this game.
Best moment in the whole fuckin franchise! I still get emotional watching that, it's so perfect and hype. The music that plays on that scene is my favourite FF track of all time.
It's the same kind of epic and tear inducing as watching The Lord of the Rings, watching the characters on their last struggle for victory with amazing music in the background
I'm a freaking sucker for moments like that. When everyone, Alexandria, Lindblum, and Burmecia all come together to fight a common enemy.
That industrial sound that kicks in gives me FF7 Turks vibes. So awesome!
12:57 'Buddy you're a boy, make a big noise. Playin' in the street, gonna be a big man some day...'
Blank getting petrified was one of my most emotional FF moments.
I have to stop watching this. I don't have 60-70 hours to spare at the moment! :(
This game is my favorite Final Fantasy game and one of my favorite games of all time.
Ff9 and FFX are the best rpg. Orher great games ill always cherish are resident evil 2&4, god of war, The last of us, Prince of Persia, devil may cry, and crash bandicoot
Words cannot describe the beauty of this game. You have to see its cutscenes!
The art direction is supreme
It really makes it stand out from the rest. It's so charming.
25:36 Dagger use a dagger to cut her hair
The scene where Zidane parts way to enter lifa tree made me cry like a little bitch. It's been 16 years!
Poor Garnet, after all she'd been through I hated to see that. But at least she got a happy ending.
Being a kid, the song and her made it so attached
One of the things I like a lot about the characters design is that you can tell Zidane is different from everyone else by just his face (amongst the humanoid characters, of course). The way his face is structured stands out amongst the rest. I'm pretty sure we would notice the difference even without the tail.
Also, 4:53 that's the perfect expression for "good grief...".
He also walks kinda in a stop motion-ish type of way too.
11:15 gives me such Miyazaki film vibes. Even the soundtrack has the same feel.
Everything about this game is a work of art.
Ff9 is one of the best games for me,the story and characters hit me hard. I felt like I somewhat lived in that world long long ago 🥲
I replay it every two years or so, and it never loses that magical immersion for me
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I played ff9 at least 20 times from 2001-2006. I no longer have access to PS1 after that so I didn't played it again. I still have FFX and ff12 in my PS2 until today, I play them at least once every year. But if there's a way to play ff9 again, I'd buy a unit to play this game again, the nostalgia is real 🥲
@@taroupriapus9760 I'm playing it on Steam. Mixed with the Moguri mod, it turns this version easily into the best-looking FFIX version. The cinematics in my video were recorded before Moguri was a thing, though. So there are no increased frames per second to be seen here.
me too .🤗
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I also felt I lived in the settings of FFX (especially Besaid, Bikanel, and Calm Lands). And also in FF12 (feels like home at Rabanastre, Zertinan Caverns, North Bank Village of Estersand and Balfonheim 🥰).
man, as a game developing and 3d artist aprentice, I never stop being charmed by this piece of art
Charming is the best way to describe FF9
An era of games with the greatest stories.
ever since,,, for me,, among all the FF games that i played,, this is the best FF story line so far..
There was a time when game development was driven not by demon of lie and greed, but by muse of creation and inspiration.
Steiner always looked like Buzz Lightyear.
But Buzz is more confident and competent. I guess it all comes from that spiral from his chin.
Played all the ff games since i am a 80s kid😉 but never get bored of this one no matter how many times i play.
I like how none of the cutscenes have ANY voice acting, yet they managed to tell a fantastic story just showing these "movie scenes" with some music and ambient sounds at the background.
Ending FMV is one of the finest CGs still, art direction and camera work
Well this made me cry once again, I really love it so much ❤️💘💗
Aw mans watching Garnet fly into Zidane's arms with that heart-tugging music got me in instant tears T T Beautiful T T
first rpg i ever played on a playstation,. and the only Final Fantasy I love until today ! thanks for uploading this, awesome quality too.
FFX is equally unforgettable, loved everything in that game too🥲
FF 9 has the best cut scenes in all the FF games!
Ff9 and FFX ... Can't decide 🥲
When garnet cuts her hair, i cried.. 😢😭
*Watching Steiner make an ass of himself is the best thing ever.*
11:06
I can't be the only one who always lul'd so hard at that "Oh boy, I dun goofed" face. xD
Thank you for this! FF9 is my second all time favourite game,and I'm am so happy to see this remastered! -
probably not remastered, i'm sure they rendered the clips in close to native resolution but had to down-size to fit the psx cd format
FFX and ff9 - top 2 in my books
I know I've said it before, but it's worth repeating; VII, VIII and IX were the Golden Age of Final Fantasy games.
Truly
when ix came out i forgot the other 2 existed 😂
I just finished playing through this game for the first time, I really enjoyed the story and cutscenes.
7:44 Vivi running like Eggman?
No voice acting, but you can still relate to the scenes. Especially if you regularly check the ATP (or something, I forgot). I still think that this one is better than ff viii. In ff ix, every character ability is unique and adorable. Not to mention that there's no weird love triangle (or even rectangular) like in ff viii.
I love FF9 so much....
I used to play this game again and again more than 20 times
I barely remember what happened in these scenes. I just really remember liking them alot along with the music.
Man, what a fantastic game! Steiner used to be my favorite male character. I nicknamed him as my name and Zidane as my brother's name. Also I had an extreme crush on Garnet. Never finished this game unfortunately but I played almost all DISC 1 and loved it, but couldn't pass a certain part. I wanna play it again so badly and finally finish it!
If you compare FF9 with other Play Station games, you must say it at least had a story unlike other games. And it's a long, better created story, not that other garbage we had to endure. And it's not the worst story I've seen, the story of Star Wars Episode 2 is worse in any direction you look at it.
So I'd rather call the story of FF9 a soap opera with some bright moments.
It's just a wonderful game, everyone likes it, it's even more fun to replay this game than FF7. The graphics were just awesome, they hid so many secrets alongside the game, it doesn't have any glitches, they thought about everything, the music was great most of the time, and it's always again fun playing it. I wish they made games like this today! - I wouldn't recommend watching the story too close, however. The story itself even made a fool of itself when Kuja destroyed Terra, meaning everything we saw was actually a waste, which is why it totally became crazy at the end. The game was actually like FF7 about the Gaia-hypothesis, but it was Gaia against Terra. In this game, however, the story made itself useless because Kuja just destroyed Terra, meaning now it's something else and this real story came to no conclusion and was just nonsense.
So just enjoy the game and don't look too direct at it, it could lower the fun to play it, actually.
Still my favorite final fantasy game in 2018.
yet i 25 years old... but these scene still the best part of my children memories ... i had enough. thanks god.
10:45 I find it strange that Vivi never developed an intense fear of flying after this
This was perfect to pull screenshots from for reference for my Garnet cosplay
The art on this game is very unique i think is much better than any final fantasy i've played before
Recently got the Mugori Mod working on my Steam Deck and its like a whole other game. This is the remake we need because this game is as close to perfect as a game can get. It was charming and beautiful as a child and is even more awesome as an adult.
9:20 i remember that :(
poor Vivi 😥😥
One of the most touching moment in a video game...I always shed a tear...
Man the higher resolution renders look so goddamn great.
10:00 is my favorite
I always cry when I watch this😭❤️
How can I get the observatory scene in Lindblum fmv 12:20 download? I've been looking and the sites that have the FMV's to download, this scene isn't available.
At this game in middle school. Sadly I never got to play it. the CD was scratched and it would freeze at this exact frame every time. 0:36
That happen to my version also, but it either skip to the start (Vivi' scene) or I open the cover and close it to skip the MV.
Used to love the PS1 era Final Fantasy games especially 7 and 9. You knew you'd be getting a game you could spend 100 hours in and get a great story as well as great characters. After FFX the Final Fantasy games went downhill although the 7 remake was very good. Now they just try and squeeze money out of it. Final Fantasy XV was a perfect example. They expected you to buy a movie and then the downloadable content to understand the story. They need to go back to the PS1 era formula: you start off facing a bad guy or corporation but in reality there is a bigger threat; a bit like Thanos in the Marvel films. Over 50 hours you go on a big quest and learn about the characters and a love story usually happens.
4:26 yass brahme werk that fan thworrp it like you mean it hunteeyyy~~~~~
yes i had to.
Final Fantasy golden era Final Fantasy VI to X.
*XI
Such a fantastic game, I wish the final fantasy would go back to these type of games
Back when Square/Enix was just Sqaresoft and still had a soul..
They literally changed completely post FFX and its so obvious the enix takeover had an effect
22:16 is phenomenal
That's the eidolon Alexander. Can only be summoned by the combined powers of garnet and eiko, never seen on actual gameplay
These graphics were unbelievable for ps1. They still hold up decently well today
I got the game when it first came out on disc and couldnt get into it but now I have it on my switch and play it non stop...just as addicting as when I played ff7...TRUE ART this game is..the story line is unbelievable the graphics on the switch lite are TOP NOTCH for this older game...battle speed is a tad slow but doesent bother me to much ...Vivis story is amazing yet heartbreaking as he is such a cute charachter and so innocent...steiner you want to slap...a game before its time
The way they did just like a movie !! Best game's cutscene in ps1 console.
Fun fact: most of FF9 concepts are inspired by stuff which humanity had in its stolen history. Underground tunnels with maglevs, flying ships on aether steam engines, even Odin is inspired by ancient weapon which destroyed most of American, Siberia and North Africa cities inhabited by almost destroyed race. It's all is still available in akashic records, which are accessible by subliminal consciousness, inspiring artists all over the world.
I like how all the female soldiers wear a one piece bikini as their armor
This and Chrono Trigger are in leagues of their own. Will never be matched.
Can you believe that graphic is came form PlayStation 1 in 2000?
I love the imagination and creativity even though nobody talks.
LOVE FF9.
I love the characters in ff9! Such a wonderful game!
This must be gaming nirvana, it has to be. I have not beaten all the games (7,8,13) Mainly just because of how daunting they are, but it is by far one of my favorite franchises if not my favorite. I am currently playing 15 and loving it! I plan on playing 9 in the future. I love final fantasy.
justin morris ive played all except 11 and 12. 9 is my favorite. Hands down. And the only one to make me almost cry. Lol
the characters in 9 are treated with such care and the story is really about them when it comes down to it. sure it is a crazy fantasy world with a lot going on, but if you are paying attention the whole thing is really about how the cast of characters feel about the world and the situations they are in, rather than the world itself. i think the dev team totally knew what they were doing and this is why there is so much focus on the acting segment at the beginning of the game.
Guard Passer You didn't cry when Aerith died? You monster
@@nabildanial00 Some may not believe it, but there are some people who never felt anything for Aerith, or even despise her.
...I'm one of the latter ones. Mainly because I dislike her atrocious design / clothing style. :^)
@@punisher00109 You difn't cry for Celes? How?? That scene was absolutely gut-wrenching. And I only first played the gane when I was 19!