Okay, this has me interested!
Even if that was so.... FFVIII's still not getting a series.
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Final Fantasy 9 is getting an animated series by Cyber Group
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The negativity that courses through this site is sometimes crazy. Guess what? If you're posting on this site YOU ARE NOT the target demographic for this game. I'll go further and say you are not the target demo for any final fantasy property anymore. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy them of course.
This will be awesome. Can't wait for my son to be a few years older to get into stuff like this.
This will be awesome. Can't wait for my son to be a few years older to get into stuff like this.
Adventure Time covers these themes several times. So does Steven Universe. Plenty of kids stuff deals with heavy themes.
The Anime adaption was really solid, it's a shame the budget was not higher and had more episodes. The DS game for me is still the best way to experience it.
Really anxious for the sequel, is almost there!!!
Strong input.
Bambi scarred me more than Final Fantasy IX. There's a lot of stuff kids are exposed to that they don't particularly "get", they just see fun colourful characters and don't tend to get caught up questioning their existence. This games message is probably more damaging to people our age!
Good job raising them right. Normal is boring!
I agree with the saying that it's alright to introduce your kids to darker aspects of life, if by stories/books, cartoons or movies. It's healthy for kids to stray out of their comfort zone and experience something scary or disturbing, or sad once in a while (while, at the same time, remaining in a comfort zone because they aren't really in danger themselves). I mean, back in the day, kids were all about Sonic SatAM and those who grew up watching that show as a kid hailed it for its darker themes. Kids could handle it, they are much stronger than many adults like to give them credit.
I like it. The love triangle between Cecil, Rosa and Kain is nice to see. They could work on that.
8-13 could mostly just involve avoiding things like graphic violence and sexuality, along with avoiding swearing. It's still old enough to involve certain themes, though the humour will probably be notably kid-aligned regardless.
Most likely decided based off what targets will give the broadest potential audience base.
Most likely decided based off what targets will give the broadest potential audience base.
overexagerations like this lead me to believe most of you haven't played the game in 15 years, since these are such gross exaggerations it sounds like you all are parroting one another which happens a bit.
Do you think 8 - 13 year old kids back then weren't playing it on release?
I also played GTA when I was 10. I feel like this is not the metric to use personally.
It's more about having to reduce the story so it's suitable for that age group rather than them being fine to watch it as is .
Not sure GTA is a good example to use here, I also have fond memories of renting GTA 2 on my dreamcast for what its worth around that age. Either way, the assumption is that the game was somehow NOT made for that market....just because. Despite it being very popular amongst my demographic at the time and you know, talked about because kids aren't stupid.
If that's the case, I'm not really sure what aspects you're referring to that they wouldn't be able to work with to show. Lot of kids shows these days have no problems flirting with heavy concepts.
Final Fantasy IX was rated T for Teen by the ESRB in 2000. The intended age demographic for the show is 8-13, so at the very least the ostensible ceiling for their show will match up with the ostensible floor for the game.
The game is literally rated T, so I feel like that speaks to what the target demographic of original release is. Nobody is saying kids can't enjoy it, but there are certain connotations that come with something being specifically made for kids for television. It's fine and I don't think it'll necessarily be a lesser show as a result, but I'm not going to go in expecting to see atomos gobbling people to their death in this show personally for example.
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It's like Square picked a random number out of a hat to choose which FF got a show.
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My memories of that game mostly consist of long start ups to battles, fucked up ATB, and having some of my favorite series mainstay abilities significantly nerfed.
FF9 ATB if seriously borked. You spend most of your time in a lot of Japanese RPGs in combat.
Can't argue. It was unfathomably slow. Back then I had all the time in the world to deal with it and did because I adored the trappings and characters. Besides 12, I've gone anywhere from dislike to straight up hating the worlds and design choices since then. 10's battle system was as major upgrade, though. I give it that.
It really feels like the people complaining that FFIX is being targeted to tweenagers have never played FFIX. Even back in 2001 people complained that it was too kiddy in comparison to VIII and VII.
The generations of calling everything Nintendo "kiddy" set some strange expectations for everyone whose mum bought them a Playstation.
I would agree the combat bothered me in ff9 but I maintain that it's got a better written story than 6.i haven't played 8 though
That's literally just because of the artistic style. I'd argue the theming/story of IX is among the darkest in the main series personally. At least more so than VII and what I remember of VIII(though it's been a while for VIII).
X is probably the only one I'd personally rank as darker/bleaker*
*Have not gone through VI or XII which I could see end up being potentially darker.
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Why are people acting like kids 8-13 can only get interested in brand new from-scratch properties. Kids never had attachment to She Ra before the new cartoon and that was popular. Same with Voltron. Toyetic franchises like Transformers or My Little Pony are constantly rebooting for each new generation of kid. It's so weird to act like kids can't get invested in an animated adaptation of something they've never heard of.
I'll give you 5 though, that one probably does have enough material to make a series out of.
1 and 3 don't really have much going on in terms of character and story though. Outside of the little beats of character that you get in 3, you'd pretty much have to wholesale invent a story and characters to make something out of those properties.
I'll give you 5 though, that one probably does have enough material to make a series out of.
I probably would've loved this when I was 9-13. Maybe I will now too. We'll see.
my closeted crush on Zidane at 12 was what got me into FF.
I was too young for FF7 at release. I only discovered the previous two in reverse from 9. Then I played 10.
Really hope they can pull off something good. I've always wanted a good FF series or movie.
my closeted crush on Zidane at 12 was what got me into FF.
I was too young for FF7 at release. I only discovered the previous two in reverse from 9. Then I played 10.
Really hope they can pull off something good. I've always wanted a good FF series or movie.
Wow, pretty random.
Looking at their animated catalog, some got good art, in my opinion.
Whether anime style or not, I hope it'll be good at least.
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Looking at their animated catalog, some got good art, in my opinion.
Whether anime style or not, I hope it'll be good at least.
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I mean, on one hand, it's great to see FFIX getting some recognition. On the other hand, this feels like "Oh, you want to make a kid-friendly FF series? Take FFIX," because Kitase and Nomura aren't interested in doing anything with it and they're dismissing it as the "kid-friendly" one.
But also: it feels to me like most of the entertainment adults consume nowadays is for 8-13 year olds, so it probably won't even make much difference.
But also: it feels to me like most of the entertainment adults consume nowadays is for 8-13 year olds, so it probably won't even make much difference.
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Pretty psyched for this. FFIX is my favorite FF game and it's honestly a good game to adapt to an animated series.
And smh at people here thinking media aimed at 8-13 year olds can't tackle the themes and subject of FFIX. We've had many similar media released already. Hell, Avengers: Infinity Wars had a scene depicting genocide and another scene wiping off half the universe and the heroes. I'm more concerned about this being a cash grab than the company targeting a certain demographic.
And smh at people here thinking media aimed at 8-13 year olds can't tackle the themes and subject of FFIX. We've had many similar media released already. Hell, Avengers: Infinity Wars had a scene depicting genocide and another scene wiping off half the universe and the heroes. I'm more concerned about this being a cash grab than the company targeting a certain demographic.
I'll believe it when there's a final (heh) product. Then again, this is a production company with a better track record than that one company that has the rights to Life is Strange.
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Not even kinda.
Sure, but those were the same people who called Wind Waker "kiddy", which was then and is now a pretty dumb moniker to assign to most games.
The only thing that's coming to mind right now is "not like this".. They better put a lot of effort into whatever this ends up being. Not some cracked kids anime set in the same world.
This doesn't change anything for the original game. Remember Spirits Within?? ....Exactly. lol
I honestly don't hate it haha
Quite honestly most of what adults consume nowadays is kids' entertainment anyway.
Because people don't want to admit that the media they consume has always been made for children.