As things wear on, of course, they don’t stay so simple, and the narrative rather confusingly widens to involve dark events and Blade Runner-esque themes of identity that culminate in Zidane and crew saving all of existence. The story primarily follows Zidane, a monkey-tailed boy who gallivants around the world with a travelling troupe of thieving actors, and starts out as a fairly lighthearted and goofy adventure centered around a somewhat botched kidnapping attempt. Although it certainly does show its age nowadays, Final Fantasy IX still stands as a testament to Square’s fantastic bent for producing quality RPG adventures it’s a game that no longtime fan of the genre will want to miss out on. Indeed, in the wake of VII and VIII changing things up with their futuristic settings, IX was a call-back to simpler days, but bearing in mind all the things that had been learned along the way. Final Fantasy X was to continue pushing the series towards new horizons by releasing on a next gen console, Final Fantasy XI was to take the series to the realm of online gaming, and Final Fantasy IX was to take the series ‘back to the roots’. In January of 2000, Square (not yet merged with Enix) made big waves in the industry with the official announcements of its next three main Final Fantasy projects, each of which was being developed with different audiences in mind.
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