We begin tonight with a warning: this is going to get really bloody technical and in-depth.
As I’ve mentioned a couple of times – and in part in Louise Blain’s episode this series – I got into the Final Fantasy series with Final Fantasy 13 and not the earlier installments like 7, 8, etc. Despite all the hype for it – and that’s just for me – it turned out to be a big sodding disappointment, with 13-2 being a minor improvement, but not by much.
VG247 writer and RPG Site co-founder Alex Donaldson, however, got on the train around the same time as everyone else back in the hayday just after 7 with 8, but it would be 9 that would go on to be a much more meaningful game in more ways than one. It’s, therefore, with that in mind he talks of Final Fantasy 9 as his favourite game.
Join us for the next hour-ish as he goes in depth on the game (seriously, he went on at one point for twenty minutes without interruption on the game!), comparisons between my dev hero Hideo Kojima & Alex’s dev hero Hiroyuki Ito and the future for the series in the wake of September’s news that Final Fantasy 15 has had an internal shake-up with Nomura out, Tabata in.
