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I know, I'm happy for Vivi but still wish he could've gone on more adventures :( And Black Mage Village will now be empty of black mages, though the genomes (and Bobby Corwen) will still be around I guess. I do think they could've made it a bit less ambiguous that it's Vivi speaking at the end, maybe they didn't want the little kids playing to realise that he'd died.

Giggsalot posted...

I've always liked the theory of Kuja's Ultima killing the party (and maybe destroying the crystal too), and Necron being the soul-sorting function of the Iifa Tree trying to send their spirits to the afterlife. There's lots of circumstantial evidence for it too - supposedly, Hades was originally the final boss instead but the creators thought that was too "obvious", plus the hell-like location Zidane and co wake up in. The "refusing to die" idea shows up again with the unsent in FFX, and its use here would tie perfectly into IX's overall key theme of life and what one does with it - for the final boss of the game to be the party members choosing to live by literally defeating an embodiment of death is a pretty perfect climax thematically. But it's definitely open to interpretation, which I also don't hate!

Yeah I do quite like this theory. It works thematically, makes more sense than Ultima not killing us, and makes Necron a bit less 'oh hey there I'm the final boss, well see ya'.

And I beat Ozma before going to bed last night!
The team: Steiner constantly using Shock with Auto-Reflect equipped to ignore Berserk.
Dagger technically working as the healer, but purely by using Ark and letting Auto-Regen do its thing. She had Boost.
Quina on support, casting Auto-Life whenever there was a chance and crucially casting Angel's Snack to offset Curse. This was the most vital thing!
Zidane was pretty useless but I couldn't get rid of him. He used Elixirs/Ethers when needed and attacked otherwise. He died at one point and I didn't even bother reviving him.
Everybody had Auto-Regen (sooo OP in this game), Auto-Haste (as always) and Auto-Life at the start. Thanks a lot for the 'select attacks while Ozma's in its animation phase' tips, that helped me a lot. It wound up killing itself using Doomsday lol.

I think that's about everything now? I'll talk about my overall thoughts on the game later today.

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Currently playing: Final Fantasy IX!