Final Fantasy VIX: Fans/My Reveiw



Game Producers

Squaresoft Entertainment Games
Created and Produced: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Executive Producers: Tomoyuki Takechi, Hisashi Suzuki
Main Program: Hiroshi Kawai
Director: Hiroyuki Itou
Producer: Shinji Hashimoto
Art Director: Hideo Minaba
Image Illiustration: Yoshitaka Amano
Original Score & Music: Nobuo Uematsu
Event Design: Kazuhiko Aoki
Real-Time Graphics: Akira Fujii
Battle Design: Yasushi Kurosawa
Battle Program: Takayuki Niwa
World Map Program: Tatsuya Yoshinari
World Map Graphics: Masahide Tanaka
Field Design: Nozomu Yamagishi, Takeshi Endo
Field Data: Hidetoshi Kezuka
Field Graphics: Shinichiro Okaniwa, Jun Sakurai, Kazuyuki Ikumori
Character Design: Shukou Murase, Toshiyuki Itahana, Shin Nagasawa
Character Modeling: Hiroshi Arai, Tomohiro Kayano
Character Animation: Jun Urui, Tatsuya Kando
Computer Graphics Movie: Hiroshi Kuwabara
Sound Effects: Teruaki Sugawara, Eiji Nakamura
Sound Program: Minoru Akao
3D Character Programmer: Thomas Shih-Ta Peng
Production Manager: Akira Kashiwagi
Project Manager: Kenji takemoto
Publicity Producer: Michio Okamiya
Supervisor: Satoshi Tsukamoto
Director: Hiroshi Kuwabara
Manager: Niromichi Kurosawa
Music: Nobuo Uematsu
Sound Programmer: Minoru Akao
Production Manager: Kensuke Matsushita
Conductor: Koji Haijima
Executive Producer: Hiromi Masuda

Review - By Vega

Over the span of several years. The former: Squaresoft, gave to us a wide variety of Final Fantasy games, each with it's own taste... so to say. Yet, with the release of a more, mediocre Final Fantasy VIII, FF gamers were not the least bit prepared for the masterpiece that was, Final Fantasy IX, and in my opinion, is the best Final Fantasy released.

Previous Final Fantasy's, all had one thing in common (excluding the use of Moogle's, Chocobo's and Cid). They all held that 'futuristic' appeal, yet, on the release of Final Fantasy IX, to the instance that you put the disk in your playstation, you'd find that there is no aspet of being 'futuristic' no, this game took afew steps down in the ages and now looks like what perhaps the late 1800's had to offer. The game is in no shortcomming of the word "Excellent" From the magnificantly crafted magical abilities, the majesty each weapon, even from the most basic, had to offer, and not to mention, the absolute splendor of the summon spells, here on regarded to as; Eidolons.

I can honestly sit here, and write this review without doubting Final Fantasy IX the slightest, I've yet to find some sort of a fault in the gameplay, I've yet to discover a flaw in the soundtrack, I've yet to find a negative in the game so far (And that's saying alot considering I've completed the game atleast 10 times). Anyway, back to the game, It's systems have been changed once again, to give it that classical Final Fantasy appeal, the individual learning of abilities depending on what equipment you have on your character, the 'Tetra Master' card system, which in my opinion is the most enjoyable sub-game that any final fantasy has ever had. Heck, this game is easy to get a hang of, simple to master and is the most enjoyable I've played so far, due to it not giving me these agonising tutorials.

The game starts with an absolutely awe striking opening FMV sequence, the arrival of the thief group 'Tantalus' into Alexandria, however, you do not start off with use of the main character 'Zidane' no, first major control is given to the local Black Mage of the group, Vivi. This allows you to explore the extent of Alexandria, and the goal of Vivi to begin with is to sneak into Alexandria castle to view the play 'I want to be your Canary' that Tantalus is there to perform. But wait, what does a thief group have to do with simply performing for Alexandrian royalty and Treno nobles? Simple, the goal of this group is to abduct the lovely Princess Garnet Til Alexandros, here on regarded to as; Garnet.

So now, we have Zidane needing to sneak into the castle, in which he executes infront of the eyes of all, they of course completely oblivious to his true intent, Blank too there for help, now. Further on in the castle we have Garnet wandering around beneath the concealment of a simple hood, looking for her ways of escape... this conflicts, and thus the disappearance of Garnet occurs, Zidane following closely behind. But what of that armored man that has been seen earlier on eh? Well, control soon is offered to Captain Aldebert Steiner (Spelt something like that) who's goal is simple, find Garnet and bring her back to her mother, Queen Brahan. However, all doesn't go too smoothely for the captain, after all, he does have to deal with Zidane and his Tantalus buddies, as well as a rebelling princess who does not intend to return... It all goes to bad, then to worse for our captain, as Vivi is soon brought onto the ship, which he fled to of free will to escape from Alexandrian Pluto Knights. Which is another burden on our Brave, Sir Knight. Anyway, here's the default party, all assembled on the deck of the Theatre ship, we have Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, Steiner, Blank, the rest of Tantalus... mission complete dispite the extra weight. So, their focus is fleeing Alexandria now... to avail or not? Brahan launches an amassing 'bomb' at the theatre ship, capable of destroying the ship, the party... And Garnet, who for some reason, has inactive Eidolons in her combat window's... What's this all mean, why would the queen put her own daughters life in harms way? I guess you'll have to play on and find out.

Staff Ratings

Storyline: 10.0
Graphics: 9.1
CG Effects: 8.0
Battle System: 7.3
Sound: 7.6
Music: 10.0
Characters: 10.0

Fan Ratings

Storyline: 8.0
Graphics: 8.1
CG Effects: 7.9
Battle System: 8.0
Sound: 6.4
Music: 9.8
Characters: 9.0

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