Title: Another long nail in the coffin of story-driven RPGs.
Product review: If you like your RPGs contrived or if your intelligence and maturity levels are forever arrested at an adolescent age, then you'll surely love Final Fantasy 9. Don't be fooled (though it's obviously too late for that) by this game's deceptive marketing touting a "return to the style of early Final Fantasy" because the only similarity between this game and, say, Final Fantasy 2, was my feeling like an eight-year-old when playing both of them. If you like overt, heavy-handed, overly simplistic dialog (and most of you bought 7 so I assume that you do), then this game will serve it up for you disc after uninspired disc. Get yourself a Vagrant Story or a Suikoden or some well-orchestrated Baldur's Gate for the PC. Or don't. It's your eighty-some-odd hours.
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