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[The Spoony Hou]

The first offender is the lengthy camera rotation before the battle starts.

That's something called loading.

What can I say against it? Sometimes games should look worse.

 

[Fedora Royale]

I don't disagree with the slowness of battles, but I can forgive it since the overall package is so great. It's definitely my favorite PS1 FF (aside from Tactics).

 

[Beautiful Ninja]

I recently finished FF IX after having it sitting in my backlog for well over a decade at this point, thanks in part due to frameskip by playing it on an emulator.

I think the general mechanics of the game are fine, but as others have said the battles are too slow. I also really don't like any of the characters in game. Zidane to his credit is different from your normal brooding antagonist in a FF game but I don't think having the MC being a goofball worked any better. I think my favorite character ended up being Steiner, but only because I pretended he was Scott Steiner when I turned him into a rampaging kill beast. Vivi and Dagger were OK, didn't care about Freya, Eiko and Amarant and actively avoided Quina until I was forced to recruit her.

I think my favorite modern FF protagonist might actually be Serah from XIII-2.

 

[Rolf NB]

They were thinking "let's do flashy graphics" without noticing or caring about how it encroached on playability.