Let's Play Final Fantasy IX // Part 17: Sidequesting & Leveling Up

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Published on July 5, 2023 11:38:35 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6v_8-QES2Y

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Final Fantasy IX (2000)

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Let's Play

Duration: 1:10:21

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With an airship comes the freedom to eXplore the world, and drop the story line to jump on some sidequesting! We get deep into Chocobo Hot & Cold, digging up a few Chocographs and upgrading our Chocobo along the way. We run into another Friendly Monster and lastly we get the party leveled up while grinding away at some Grand Dragons! Lots of good fun-- 4 1/2 hours of gameplay condensed into just over an hour here!

0:00 Wrapping up in Lindblum
9:02 Finding Garnet in Alexandria
16:15 Airship Hilda Garde 3
29:40 Chocobo Hot & Cold
50:16 Grindin' on some Grand Dragons

Apologies in advance for any cuss words, I will try to keep this series PG. Open to suggestions & things I missed, or any easter eggs you know about, so feel free to jump on the comments!

Playing the 2016 remastered version with the Moguri Mod via Steam on PC, using a generic Logitech game pad. This session recorded 7/4/23.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_IX
Walkthrough by Lassarina Aoibhell: http://www.rpgplace.net/contrib/rina/guides/ff9/

My eXperience with FFIX goes back to 2000. As a young parent who was raised on Atari, NES and SNES, I'd never really carried the video game bug with me into the PlayStation age, I'd moved on to other hobbies (music mostly). Once I'd heard about FFIX coming out, though, it immediately gave me the feels for FFI (NES) but especially for FFIV (FF2 on SNES in the US) and FFVI (FF3 on SNES in the US). I wasn't a gamer at all at the time so I didn't really give a crap that the PSone was a dying console, soon to be phased out by the PS2. I don't even remember how I heard about it, may have walked past it in a Walmart or something, but the visuals for this game are what brought me to it, so I happily bought a new PSone (they were selling for $50 by this point) , a copy of FFIX, and was immediately rewarded with what remains, 20+ years on, as my favorite of all time, which I have played through at least a dozen times over the years.

So join me, if you're down to hang, for a nice chill run (with some sidequests and goodie hunting) through my favorite game, FFIX. No speedrun here. I'll cut out the super tedious & grindy bits and reserve the right to go full 9999 cheat whenever I damn well please-- I ain't in this for any gamer cred-- just for my own (and hopefully your) enjoyment and that's it. :)

Rally Ho,
~Truck

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