Current Events > The latter half of 2019 has been the real FF9 vindication period

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FF9 has always been a pretty popular entry in the fanbase, but I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the huge amount of FF7 clowns on the early internet kinda skewed the perception of 9 a little bit. Trance sucks, cards suck, battles take too long, bad writing (in relation to 7, naturally), it's a step backwards after 7 pushed the envelope etc. It had its fans and defenders, but for the stretch of time that FF7 was openly touted as the best Final Fantasy game by the vocal fanboys, its stature was diminished to a degree.

9 saw a renaissance about a year before it got ported, all the way through to when the port dropped. It got its fair share of the limelight. But it's only been in the last couple of months that it feels like the game has been spreading its wings in my sphere of influence.

Between the game getting played on Vinesauce, these FF9 threads that have been dropping on CE a lot lately and Austin Eruption dropping a 2 part video series about it, the FF9 love has been real recently.
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