The PlayStation era had seen the proliferation of the Final Fantasy series all over the world, and launched Square into a new golden era. While series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi would only be a distant producer for Final Fantasy VIII while we was directing the Final Fantasy movie in Hawaii, he knew that he wanted to oversee another game in the series. The “fantasy” was falling by the wayside, and he wanted to use the technology used for VII and VIII to fully realize the classical style of earlier installments. But with the PlayStation 2 beating the game to market, and international players having a specific idea of the series in their head from VII and VIII, or being feeling let down by the latter, the deck seemed stacked against Final Fantasy IX…
Made in Hawaii by half a team of Japanese people shipped from Japan and half a team of Americans. They used translators to bridge the language barriers.
Must have been an absurd office to work in.
Nearly 25 years alter, I can hear the title theme in my head just as clearly as when I first booted it up. Sometimes the game was cozy, sometimes silly, sometimes exciting, sometimes creepy, sometimes sad, but it always nailed the atmosphere it was going for at any given moment.
5 freaking hours? That’s a Docuseries.
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