Bought FFIX; first impressions inside...

So, last saturday I went happily to a shop and bought FFIX; got shocked about the price ( well, it was ONLY 70$, and I thought it would cost more ), and walked home even happier.

I ripped the box open; not too harsh \'tho, had no time to read the manual and put the cd in to my playstation; wich is in my room.

Few boring seconds and the squaresoft -logo appears in front of me aided with this medieval music. I kinda like the tune and continue to listen to it. Suddenly, the logo transforms to beautiful video-clip, and I watch it very interested and eager. I spotted a place called Tifa from the map showing in the video and thought about FFVII a while. Soon the video-clip ended and I wasn\'t so sad about it because I still had to watch the has-to-be-beautiful opening-video, and I was very excited.

So, I pushed the -start game- option from the menu, and the stormy starting-sequence opened before my eyes.

After the very beautiful opening-scene I am introduced to the wonderful characters of FFIX. After the first battle with Zidane and pals I can tell that the system hasn\'t changed ( like I expected ). Good system.

Then I meet ViVi. First thought is; "How cute". Well, ViVi is VERY symphatic character, and the empathy flows from the beginning. Love towards Vivi grows as I play, but I\'ll get back to that later.

The Princess Garnet\'s bodyguard Steiner is really funny character; altho\' he doesn\'t try to be I\'m sure

I won\'t go to the story, as I haven\'t got a big clue of it YET, and won\'t spoil what I have experienced; let me just say I love what I\'ve seen. After playing 7 hours I can\'t stop. The game\'s to my taste. It\'s far better than FFVIII; as I love the old medieval-fantasy theme. The characters are deeper than those in FFVIII, and I can\'t watch Vivi worrying about his existence without smiling every few seconds. I love it! I\'ll post my review when I\'ve completed the game \'tho...

yea we told you it would be cool

see now give it another 15 hours and you to will think that it is better than FFVII

at least i think so...

Well, I\'m deep in FF9 world too....I bought the game last
week, and really begin playing on Friday night...

As Darth Joyda said, Vivi is such a nice an funny character..poor little boy, he seems so weak and sensitive!

The game is awesome and breathtaking...we played it all
weekend long (at least a game that my girlfirend likes,
sometimes she even grab the controller and looks for new
items ; I\'m taking care of the battles).

As time goes on, we are now at something like 18 hours of playing, in the CD2 (Pinapple Rocks). Characteres are now
stronger, that\'s cool !

By the way, did you manage to use the Princess invocations?
Like Shiva and so on...????

And I\'ve got a question for you all :
Did you rename your characters? If so, what are the names?
I renamed some of them :

Bibi = Chapo (means Hat in french)
Princess = Biboune
The hungry lady = Gnïak
Freija = Zarbïë

That\'s all the characters I have for now...

I love this game.

Didn\'t play a PS2 game since I have it....

ummm i renamed my character well some of them

here is a list of all of them:

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• Zidane : Fury
• Steiner : Crack
• Princess : Dagger
• Armarant : BigRed
• Fryea : Freak
• ViVi : Twiggy
• Little Girl whos orignal name i forgot : dang i can\'t remember what i changed it to either - i will edit it whe i remember
• Quina : LikaLot
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but i changed them all but Dagger\'s becuase it sounded cool enough

Hey, by the price i assume your australian...
what shop did you get it from?
My local harvey norman say it\'s being shipped now to the 23rd... when originally it was the 16th or sumthing thanks for ur help..

Oh yeah I forgot Steiner. His name is now Eulgros
(means something like big guy in french...)

So Fryea\'s Freak....that\'s good, she\'s really strange.
The name I chose for her means Strange, very strange !

I didn\'t change names, as I love the names as they are.

Except I changed Zidane to Jose ( my name; it\'s a tradition; I do it in every Final fantasy game )

My characters aren\'t strong, and my collector -level is still beginner ( I\'ve played 7 hours; and I\'m trying to play as slow as I can and collect everything I can and explore places as well as I can ); I have about 180 points. I\'m going to reach for the highest collector-level in the end...

but I think tetra-master isn\'t that bad. It\'s quite addicting as a card-game. But I still loved the simple Triple-Triad from FFVIII even more...

i just bought it today.
it cost £40 but because my friends mum works in WHSmith i got it for £37 with a official memory card!
the game rocks.

I have played it for 1 hour now, this game has the "magic" Square tuch, just like FFVII, only that this one is starting even better.
My wife is looking at some crap now on the Tv, so I cant play right now. I will play all night long, Im going to be very tired at work tomorrow.

Just got it today for my 25 birthday from Foaks oh and my Girlfirnd  handed me a pre-order slip for my PS2 .


Opended like you did put in the first disk and waited, seconds my jaw hist the grownd, " OH MY GOD" i cry as i watch the intro, "BLOODY HELL they have improved it" when i get to play ZiDane and ViVi for the First time.

infact i was playig it soo much the first time , i had en\'t noticed that intro was long gone and i had just smashed my way through the evil forest and now killed the second BLACK WALTZ, my jaw his the deck again as i am later treated to a ariel chase sceen, as the heros try to escape yet another git trying to stop me from seeing the end credits.

infact just stoped playing it for today, i have just got to the bit where you have Zidane, ViVi and Freya and you need to rush to Freya\'s kingdom to stop the black mages, and to defend the king.

have to say i think this is the best FF game i have played, the control system is superb , effects are top notch and the story line grabbed me shortly after the intro finnished.
the main caracter is cool , i like Zidane hes the first main FF character i give a damn about.

Cloud was ok
Squll was a moody git !

plus ViVi has to be one of the all time great\'s you just scream as a monster attacks him.

and as for Steiner, i love the way when you control him you here his clanking armour.

anyway i think ill give it another go before i go to bed .
 

I\'m in the Great Castle, the town ( aargh can\'t now remember the name! ) after the aerial chase! I\'ve been just wandering around the HUGE Castle-town, playing Tetra-master and just chatting with townsfolk...

I love it. This is the best buy I\'ve made this year... Just Great! I\'m happy I didn\'t cancel my reservation, and thanks goes to many of you whom replied to my thread back then.

But I\'m nowhere the end of CD1 yet. And I\'ve already fallen love with the game...

And I agree ooseven; I just can\'t stand vivi attacked... he\'s just so cute ( and I\'m no gay saying this ), so symphatic; yet so powerful...

yeah i am , i have to return to that city your at, because i have run of of supplys and need more potions. i think i could finish the first disk by the end of the week, but i am enjoying it soo much i might just take my time and explore everything first.

P.S.

i am also needing to get a few wins in Tetra-master , because i have just got a basic deck and  want to improve it.

see i told yall it was the best yet and that you would be hooked to that game

don\'t say i never warned you

tell me about it my grilfriend is buzy with the PSX , and i can\'t play tonight.
she is buzy playing FF8 .

I went to my local game shop today and there it was: final fantasy ( in all it\'s glory.
so I checked my wallet, you probably already guessed it, I don\'t have any money to spend on the ****ing game.
So I thought maybe they\'ll let me try the game out to calm down my final fantasy needs, but the stupid playstation is broken, so no final fantasy 9 for me, I\'m really sad now.