One Hit Pixel's Phillip Costigan takes a look back at one of the PlayStation's greatest RPGs; Final Fantasy IX.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
You need a reason to fight the good fight. In video games, some of the best antagonists have been female perpetrators.
One of the most memorable fights I ever played. I almost didn't want to pull the trigger at the end.
one of my all time favorite games!!
After the steampunk futuristic settings of FF 7&8 it was a nice change to see the game go back to its roots. This game is still considered one of Sakaguchi's fave in the series & it shows in the development of this game.
Game was fun, moving, exciting, gripping, funny, heartful, chaotic, grim, & whatever adjective one can come up with to describe the epic scale of the story. The characters were not as memorable other than Vivi but they still had charm & likable.
A great game, underrated but worthy of the Final Fantasy name & a fitting end to the Final Fantasy saga on PSone.
definitely the best ff ever made. the characters and gameplay made it a masterpiece
Final Fantasy IX is completely amazing a true classic in my opinion. Loved every second of it, it completely just blew me away. Even today this is still my favorite Final Fantasy game
One of the best games ever made indeed.