LMAO. ALmost spit out my drink.
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Thirteen years after its release, a new sidequest is discovered in Final Fantasy IX
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LMAO. ALmost spit out my drink.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Why does the best Final Fantasy have the worst official guide? Fuck Playonline and it's bullshit hoops.
13 years ago I bought the guide and still ended up printing off like 200 pages from gamefaqs on stuff the guide never covered.
Thanks for the paper and Ink college! ^_^
13 years ago I bought the guide and still ended up printing off like 200 pages from gamefaqs on stuff the guide never covered.
Thanks for the paper and Ink college! ^_^
They probably didn't intend it as "good design." They probably intended it as "secret that only the hardcore would discover."
Wrong, VIII is one of the best in the entire series.
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
This is going to be really difficult now to the resist the temptation to buy the PSN version..
FFIX <3
Replaying it right now, and oh yeah, now I remember why I never beat Ozma.
Chocograph hunting drives me up the damn wall haha. I get legit mad at the game.
This is really neat! I love things that get discovered years and years later. You know you'd all probably pee yourselves if the Triforce was found in OoT.
Replaying it right now, and oh yeah, now I remember why I never beat Ozma.
Chocograph hunting drives me up the damn wall haha. I get legit mad at the game.
This is really neat! I love things that get discovered years and years later. You know you'd all probably pee yourselves if the Triforce was found in OoT.
Exactly. It's not like it's part of the main story or anything, just something neat for big fans of the game to find.
I discovered this on accident when the game first came out. I forget what sequence I must have been following, but I fell into the hole covered by a shrub right by the river, and landed in the secret room. None of my friends believed me.
jacksepticeye
Member
I keep telling everyone it's the best ever
FunkyPajamas
Member
Oh what?Is there a link or thread about that?
It's a secret to everybody.
FinalFanXtreme
Banned
I don't understand why people have to be negative about this. It's an optional side quest with an optional item. If it was a -key- item then maybe the bad comments and ugly words could be made but this is pretty bad ass. This was the first game I played on my launch PS2... I was so stoked Love the game...
Love the game...Kung Fu Grip
Banned
Oh how I miss pre-rendered backgrounds.
.la1n
Member
No fun allowed
hydrophilic attack
Member
This is one reason I love FFIX.
So much detail and so many obscure things to do!
So much detail and so many obscure things to do!
Yep. By far.
Manmademan
Member
He's not wrong. RPGs are notorious for this- being packed with content that is literally impossible to find for the purpose of selling strategy guides.
Ok, wait a minute there...
Because, well, if this is indeed in the Ultimania guide, I would hardly call it "discovering a new sidequest"... It's cool that we finally take notice of this, though.
... so, basically, Japan knew about this all along, it's just that us westerners didn't notice up until now?
Because, well, if this is indeed in the Ultimania guide, I would hardly call it "discovering a new sidequest"... It's cool that we finally take notice of this, though.
Its ok all modern games are just linear corridors you have nothing to worry about as it won't happen again...
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Agree 100%. This kind of stuff is awful.
Good hidden secrets are things like the Bald Bull Punch Out camera flash.
Unlike this side quest, though, that was for the ultimate weapon of the game, and yes, that was poorly designed. However, you can complete FFXII perfectly fine without the Zodiac Spear. Still, it was dumb to make a powerful weapon like that missable, especially since Square Enix knew most people would want to obtain it.
It's called Chris Houlihans secret room in Zelda LTTP. It took many years for someone to find it.
revolverjgw
Member
Make up some other random quest and see if he "knows about it"
KojiKnight
Member
I'm curious what happens if you force event flags all the way through the second time... if the chest refills, or if it's empty or what. Curious and all that.
legacyzero
Banned
I often wonder how much devs randomly put undisclosed secret shit in games like this, only for it to be discovered generations later.
This is fascinating.
CEASE YOUR BLASPHEMY.
This is fascinating.
CEASE YOUR BLASPHEMY.
The Chris Houlihan room has been known since... over a decade. It's definitely not something that was discovered "recently".
Heck, I remember reading about the Chris Houlihan room in a Nintendo magazine before the N64 came out.
to be honest I wouldn't mind that kind of things if there was some kind of new game + at least for the level, grinding your way agian for like 60+ levels is really a bother (and that is why I love the chrono games or the recent tales of games, lots of endings and secret stuff but the new game + lets me visit the game again without minding the grind)
That guide was kind of shitty.
I'm amazed to see something like this stay hidden for so many years, but I'd imagine that's how they get people to guide the guides.
Oh what?
tiggerkiddo
Member
Haha, that's pretty awesome...it's not a super complicated and it's kind of tedious to do since it requires you to backtrack a lot so I'm not shocked it went hidden for so long but that's an awesome find.
Darn, I feel like listening to my FFIX soundtrack again...
Darn, I feel like listening to my FFIX soundtrack again...
Tizoc
Member
I hate to be "that guy", but this has always been known -- at least since the Ultimania came out around 2002 or so. At the time, reading about it, I remember being a little upset that they would make something so ridiculously obscure and figured that it was another part of the PlayOnline scam.
You mean no Western media have ever mentioned it?
You mean no Western media have ever mentioned it?