The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm about 11 hours in and FF9 is quickly turning out to be one of the best in the series. If it keeps it up, it'll be up there not only with CC as the best of the PSX RPGs, but also up there with FF4 and maybe even FF6 as the best in the series</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Better late than never! That's my favorite classic RPG! Though I have yet to play Vagrant Story.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Vivi rocks.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I thought it was one of the better games of the series. And yeah, Vivi rocks.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Also if you know the plot of the original Final Fantasy, then Final Fantasy 9 is a real treat. Seriously, this game is probably the most underated in the series (sorry to say, it's my opinion that Final Fantasy II and/or 4j is the most overated of the series, speaking of the general consensus here at the Shrine, many of you seam to really like this game, yet what qualities are there to like? It's about as fun as Lufia 2 and has no real advantages over any other game in the series). Yeah I didn't like Final Fantasy 7 all that much, but the beginning of it totally rocked and if that was all the game was, then I still would have been more satisfied with that than I was with Final Fantasy II.

Wow, I really should cut back a little more on the essays, all my posts nowadays seam to be rants =P</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Far, far too much menu based weapon switching. Having to change weapons two or three times a room is rather common.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Eh...it's fun to play, but when you're done, you'll say "That was amusing" and forget about it pretty quickly.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Actually, that's pretty much what I did.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow, it would have to finish like FF7 for that to happen 'cause I"m loving the hell out of it right now</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Of course, right now they split my group up into the Gods (Beatrix, Freya, and Steiner) and the Wimps (Zidane, Garnett, and Vivi). What sadistic programer came up with that? I got one group where each character can wipe out anything I face on his/her own and the other were I gotta watch it a little (it's not THAT hard, but you do have to pay attention, unlike the other group which just crushed EVERYTHING).

I also love the characters and how there's actual separation in the classes and their abilities and strengths/weakness, unlike previous games in the series (yes, another jab at FF&)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Zidane? Wimpy? Pfft. Assemble some of the double-bladed weapons for him.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Zidane's Super Saiyan trance stuff are all pretty strong... but not like the game's hard or anything</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You can usually survive with 2 good groups. The only two weapons I used the first time was the Rapier and a Shimshir (standard 1handed sword)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It took forever to get back to Lindblum to get to Synth boy, Now he can actually inflict SOME damage</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>i agree, i barely remember the character names.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Ditto. I bought the game about 3-4 months ago, and haven't touched it yet. Too many fucking games to play on all systems.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Not really worth remembering, anyway. I hated the cast of FF9.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>That boy can get some mad kill skillz.</div>