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Final Fantasy IX
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2000 video game
Game data
Metacritic 84- Released
- 2000-07-07
- User rating
- 4.35 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure, RPG
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PlayStation
- ESRB
- Teen
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Game details · IGDB
Final Fantasy IX is the ninth main installment in the FF series. The title is a return to the series's roots, with gameplay features and references to the past games featuring throughout, as well as a medieval fantasy setting and cartoonish art style as a break from the sci-fi slant style of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII.
- Released
- 2000
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- Final Fantasy
- Developer
- Square USA, Square Product Development Division 1
- Publisher
- Square, Square Electronic Arts, Square Enix
Key facts
- Developer
- Square
- Publishers
- JP : Square NA : Square Electronic Arts EU : Square Europe WW : Square Enix
- Director
- Hiroyuki Ito
- Producers
- Hironobu Sakaguchi Shinji Hashimoto
- Designers
- Kazuhiko Aoki Yasushi Kurosawa
- Programmer
- Hiroshi Kawai
- Artists
- Hideo Minaba Shūkō Murase Toshiyuki Itahana
- Writer
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Composer
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Series
- Final Fantasy
- Platforms
- PlayStation Android iOS Windows PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One
- Release
- July 7, 2000 PlayStation JP : July 7, 2000 NA : November 14, 2000 EU : February 16, 2001 Android , iOS WW : February 10, 2016 Windows WW : April 14, 2016 PlayStation 4 WW : September 19, 2017 Switch , Xbox One WW : February 13, 2019
- Genre
- Role-playing
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Final Fantasy IX is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is the ninth game in the main Final Fantasy series. The plot focuses on a war between nations in a medieval fantasy world called Gaia. Players follow a thief named Zidane Tribal who kidnaps princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII as part of a ploy by the neighboring nation of Lindblum. He joins Garnet and a growing cast of characters on a quest to take down her mother, Queen Brahne of Alexandria, who started the war, while uncovering the various reasons behind it.
Game development occurred in parallel with Final Fantasy VIII. Envisioned by developers as a retrospective for the series, it departed from the futuristic settings of Final Fantasy VI, VII, and VIII by returning to the medieval style of the earlier games. Consequently, it draws heavy influence from the original Final Fantasy and features allusions to the rest of the series. The game introduced new features to the series despite this approach, such as "Active Time Event" cutscenes, "Mognet", and skill systems. Final Fantasy IX was the last game in the main series whose music was composed solely by Nobuo Uematsu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Final Fantasy IX” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.