Symbolism in FFIX

[gcarev10]

hey,hey,hey we speak simbolik here!

 

[Squall Leonhart]

Quan (Quale's Master and Vivi's Grandfather) used to live in a cave with Vivi. The cave's got a couple of benefits: healing source, chocobotreasure, twice a stellazio, and a secret sequence involving Quina and Vivi.

I have a quick question. If Vivi is a black mage then why does his grandpa look like Quina ?

 

[ShadowHeart]

SPOILER WARNING






Because it's not his biological grandpa? He just calls him that?

 

[Zerlina]

Maybe add a spoiler warning to that.

 

[gcarev10]

Go to a Vivi home and y will find way his grenpa and ext.(but go with Quina and Vivi in y party)..

 

[ave]

when i went to the cave i found a note that sed vivi 12 month still to young to eat so i think that mit mean some thing

 

[necron]

plain and simple, FF9 was the last of the traditional FF rpgs, and therefore it was made as a tribute to its predecessors; that is the reason for all of the references to the older FF games. Not to mention it is my favorite FF (after 7). If you have played the all of the FFs you will also notice A LOT of recycled music throughout the whole game.

 

[Zeon]

although it isnt really symbolism, ff9 is full to the brim with past ff references. (i talked about the pluto knights) like, when youre on the tantalus ship, on the wall is the buster sword, and zidane says,"i used to know a guy with spiky hair who had a sword like this"

correct quote.....wrong location. he actually sees it in the shop in lindblum (weapon shop check it out ) they have "good" weapons............cough cough STEINER cough cough...........

some sybological things like the obvious thing of memories (hello a place called MEMORIA!!) also theres things about terra and stuff (linking to creation of humans ) another thing i saw was the bit with the whole edilon wall thing........cave paintings. maybe.........EDILONS EXIST?!?!?!?!?!...........yer i no......

one thing i did notice though was the link from ff9 to ff5 (the lifa tree!!!) ff5 the source of all bad things is tht tree (Ex-death with extra grow) and then the lifa tree the source of mist (which creates black mages and binds terra to gaia another evil thing ) lots of evil. the kuja taking everyone with him thing makes sense.................fear of death after all is natural....

 

[Yggdrasill]

I might as well post a list of some references:
*Some spoilers*


1. The name "Garland" is a reference to FF1's Garland.
2. The buster sword quote. Although, I can't seem to see the Buster sword on the wall.
3. "Kains lance" is a reference to FFIV's Kain.
4. The 4 chaos guardians are references to FFI's guardians.
5. The Namingway card is a reference to FFIV's "Namingway" who also renames your characters.
6. The dwarves greeting "Rally-ho" is a mis-translation of FFIV's "Lali-ho"
7. Kuja's "Flare-star" attack is also used by Atma in FFVI.
8. FFIX's best weapon "Ultima-Weapon" is a mis-translation of "Atma-weapon". Zidanes best weapon was orginally meant to be named "Atma-weapon" (There was also a awesome weapon in FFVI called Atma-weapon.)
9. Cid's last name "Fabool" is a reference to a town called "Fabul" in FFIV.
10. Moogles are a reference to the first game they were in, FFIII.
11. The biggest reference of them all, Terra, she was a main character in FFVI.

There are tons more (over 100 in all) but I can't post them all.

 

[Avathar]

Haha, I've discovered a new one, I thought I've known all the obvious ones, but:

When In Black Mage Village, there's a baby Chocobo called Bobby Corwen.

Zidane: "Why do they keep calling it by it's full name?"

BOBBY CORWEN (FFIX) - BOCO (FFV)

^^

 

[Zeromus_X]

Oh wow! I've never noticed that before! Good find, Avathar. Boco (or Boko) is also the name of Wiegraf's Chocobo in Final Fantasy Tactics, and it is a common Chocobo name in the series.

 

[Avathar]

^^ Teehee, it's not farfetch'd at all. And knowing FFIX being a tribute to the classics and all, it's mostly to be a reference at first to Final Fantasy V ;D (although, wasn't there also a chocobo in FFVIII called Boko, or am I mistaken?).

 

[Yggdrasill]

Yeah, Boco is from FFV.
I don't think there's a chocobo in FFVII called Boco, I could be mistaken though.

 

[Lyde Lyde]

although it isnt really symbolism, ff9 is full to the brim with past ff references. (i talked about the pluto knights) like, when youre on the tantalus ship, on the wall is the buster sword, and zidane says,"i used to know a guy with spiky hair who had a sword like this" or something.

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You're wrong it's in the weapon shop in Linblum when Zidane says that and another reference is Eiko's background like Rydia from IV Eiko's village of summoners were destroyed and she became the last existence from her village other than Garnet and also Rydia and eiko are both children well until Rydia was sent to the land of summoning.