Yatta!
I finally completed Final Fantasy IX. It's also the first numbered FF game that I've completed. Poor Kuja. *sobs* Hopes he finds a wonderful, hot and sexy afterlife with Sephiroth. Strangely, my team of Zidane, Steiner, Vivi and Dagger has less problem with Necron than with Kuja.
If Squeenix does intend to port a numbered FF game to the PSP, please let it be this one (*runs away from horde of diabolical FFVII fans*). It deserves more love. The plot is great, the characters are lovable (*hugs Vivi*), Zidane makes a worthy hero, and the game has so much charm overall. I can't say I've encountered another game that just strikes me the right way that FFIX has done. Ok, perhaps there wasn't much to satisfy the yaoi fangirl, though I guess we could pretend that Kuja isn't dead and is hiding in Zidane's cabin. Come on, tell me honestly that last scene in the roots of the Iifa Tree wasn't steaming with Zdane/Kuja love. Oh yeah, Kuja is probably the only one with the technical know-how to replicate Vivi's "children", anyway.
Of the numbered FFs that I've played: FFI shows its age and is an absolutely boring grindfest from the very start; FFVIII was dour and dry; FFX was long interactive movie with a jock lead that I could care less about; and while FFXII scores for its medieval setting (just like FFIX), it was oh-so-serious, and I had problems getting past the dull Vaan (yep, I was too bored running around to even bother with the Tomato Man quest, and that was the first quest!) and the junk battle system (Squeenix, it should either be real-time or turn-based, so stop pretending to be both when you only took the worst bits of either systems).
Anyway, I can now proceed to Spectral Souls on my Plump & Heavy PSP. Bye Zidane...and Kuja. Until we meet again in Final Fantasy Dissidia
If Squeenix does intend to port a numbered FF game to the PSP, please let it be this one (*runs away from horde of diabolical FFVII fans*). It deserves more love. The plot is great, the characters are lovable (*hugs Vivi*), Zidane makes a worthy hero, and the game has so much charm overall. I can't say I've encountered another game that just strikes me the right way that FFIX has done. Ok, perhaps there wasn't much to satisfy the yaoi fangirl, though I guess we could pretend that Kuja isn't dead and is hiding in Zidane's cabin. Come on, tell me honestly that last scene in the roots of the Iifa Tree wasn't steaming with Zdane/Kuja love. Oh yeah, Kuja is probably the only one with the technical know-how to replicate Vivi's "children", anyway.
Of the numbered FFs that I've played: FFI shows its age and is an absolutely boring grindfest from the very start; FFVIII was dour and dry; FFX was long interactive movie with a jock lead that I could care less about; and while FFXII scores for its medieval setting (just like FFIX), it was oh-so-serious, and I had problems getting past the dull Vaan (yep, I was too bored running around to even bother with the Tomato Man quest, and that was the first quest!) and the junk battle system (Squeenix, it should either be real-time or turn-based, so stop pretending to be both when you only took the worst bits of either systems).
Anyway, I can now proceed to Spectral Souls on my Plump & Heavy PSP. Bye Zidane...and Kuja. Until we meet again in Final Fantasy Dissidia