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Hehehe just finished this game after 55 hours, one part i didnt recall was the crystal dagger had around her neck, it fell off her neck in the end fmv, and it is in the title of the game, whats that about?

I think this game was pretty good, only got my guys to around level 77 or so though, and i dont think i wanna do all the sidequests, since ive got like 15 other rpgs to play. Does anyone know where i can download the fmv’s for ff9?

SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED THE GAME!!

The crystal which Garnet wears throughout the game is the Royal Pendant of Alexandria, one of the four Crystals which when combined, can be used to summon the Eidolon Judge Alexander (the other three are Lindblum’s Falcon’s Claw; Cleyra’s Desert Star, and finally Madian Sari’s Memory Earring, which Eiko posesses).

Hence the real reason for Brahne’s war – it was actually a front for Kuja to steal the Four Crystals so he could summon Alexander and use it in his vindictive battle against Garland. But perhaps I’m getting a little too far ahead of myself.

The reason Garnet left the pendant on the ground where it fell in the final scene, is because of all the heartache and pain the pendant had caused her and her friends and family. To her, it represented the painful past, and as Zidane was waiting on the Prima Vista’s stage for her, she had to let go of that past in order for her to face her future and her responsibilties.

However, the Royal Pendant and the crystal in the logo are not the same thing. The game’s logo is actually the Crystal of Life; the origin of all life and existence. It appears in the game right at the end of Memoria/Crystal World, where Kuja, aware of his finite life span, threatens to destroy the Crystal, and therefore the universe, along with it, after coming to the insane conclusion that if he is to die, then the rest of the universe has no right to exist without him.

When Kuja threatens the Crystal, it inadvently triggered the arrival of Necron, the Crystal’s antithesis if you will. Where the Crystal gives life, Necron destroys it. Accordingly, beating Necron sends it back to whatever dark hell it came from and the Crystal is saved. That is the meaning behind the Crystal in the logo – it symbolises life and existence; the game’s main ‘theme’.

As for the FMV scenes, I think they can be found at RPGamer.com, but I’m not too sure about that. Otherwise, if you have a reasonable PC, you could always view the FFIX FMV files on your PC direct from the game discs with a Playstation media viewer like PSMplay orPSXmc (which can be found at Zophar’s Domain at http://www.zophar.net/utilities/psxutil.html ).

One word of caution about PSXmc though. Don’t use the Shareware version, as it’s a 30 day trial which locks up and becomes unusable after the trial period is up. Get the Freeware version instead (both versions can be found via the above link). I use the Freeware version of PSXmc all the time to play FMV movies and certain music files from PSX/PS1 games and it works very well.

That was great insight, I didnt know half that stuff.

I think im starting to like FF9 more… dunno, I can say more about FF8 than any other game..

Bah! FF9 owns FF8. That is all

Hehehe just finished this game after 55 hours, one part i didnt recall was the crystal dagger had around her neck, it fell off her neck in the end fmv, and it is in the title of the game, whats that about?

I think this game was pretty good, only got my guys to around level 77 or so though, and i dont think i wanna do all the sidequests, since ive got like 15 other rpgs to play. Does anyone know where i can download the fmv’s for ff9?
* Pats on head *

Good boy, there’s a good boy, have a doggy biscuit

Bah! FF9 owns FF8. That is all
That’s a pretty blatant statement, explain why FF9 ‘owns’ FF8.

Bah! FF9 owns FF8. That is all

Oh c’mon, by my standards FF9 and FF8 meet the same point. FF7 overrode all of them, and now im playing FF6 and its pretty good also =)