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About Us This site started in the year 2000 as Zidanesff9 Kingdom, which was unbelievably rubbish. It had 3 pages each with a different background colour. Over the years, it has had many layouts and lots of content added. Hits and visitors have risen significantly and it wouldn't be the site it is now without them. "We as a site, strive to provide the best Final Fantasy content and media on the net to help gamers and to provide them with the latest news and details of upcoming releases." |
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As with the other games in the series, Final Fantasy IX has
the ability to grab your attention from the time you fire it up
until the last boss is put down. Previous entries into the game's
lineage took a more dramatic cinematic route to do what a
role-playing game does best--tell a story. That style led to some
complaints from headstrong fans and role-playing gamers alike. In
response to this, while not sacrificing what new technology
they've built into the series, SquareSoft has backtracked a bit.
To put it simply, they've gone back to their roots. 
But even players with no experience in this series can pick this
up as a new game. Final Fantasy IX's story follows a group
trying to stop Brahne, the evil Queen of Alexandria, in her quest
to rule the world. Zidane, a skilled thief, teams with a young
mage, a royal knight and a princess, who all soon discover that
the queen's threats are fronting an even more sinister plot
involving a powerful sorcerer named Kuja. It's your job to control
the eight playable characters--each of whom begin the game with
one weapon, one piece of armour and one special power--and to
uncover Kuja's motives before he carries out his deadly plan. 
The game's opening sequence sets the stage for what's to follow
and, as we've come to expect from the CG wizards at SquareSoft,
what is an utterly amazing visual scene. Long-time fans will revel
in SquareSoft's decision to return to the
disproportional-character look of the past.
Like VII and VIII, Final Fantasy IX uses the
ATB (Active Time Battle) system. With each character learning the
abilities and commands appropriate to his or her job class. 
An Active Time Event (ATE) lets you see events that are happening
elsewhere. For example, while you are controlling the main
character in a town, you can view what the other characters are
doing in another part of the same town. This function provides
additional information and behind-the-scenes details about the
story and the characters.
The game's visual splendour touches even the most ordinary scenes,
such as shadows in the street alleys and the mazes of
cobblestones. Final Fantasy IX's colour palette does a
remarkable job in creating interest on every single object,
location and person. 
This will be SquareSoft's last venture on the PlayStation for the
Final Fantasy Series, with its awesome graphics, a good
story, and random battles that reveal curious bits about each
character, Final Fantasy IX is an epic adventure that'll
have long-time fans of the acclaimed series beaming with pride and
joy. As for everyone else who has yet to experience the Fantasy,
now is the time.
February
16, 2001
July
7, 2000
November
14, 2000
