/vr/ - Retro Games

FFIX is my favorite game. I love the opening. From Alexandria to Lindblum, it's probably one of my favorite opening segments in video games. It just feels like such an adventure.

The daring thief who wants to kidnap the princess, and the princess who, as it turns out, wants to be kidnapped; the quiet, young magician who's just discovering the world, and the old, cantankerous knight, who in many ways is also just discovering the world. It's such a good combo and you have them all together and it just stays so humble while hinting and leading to bigger things. It's not about a war, though it will be eventually. It's not about the fate of the world, though that happens later. It's just about a heist that goes, not wrong, but right, cause the girl they wanted to get wanted to be got.

It's a classic, but just off kilter enough that it comes into its own. I love FFIX.