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| Aka: | Final Fantasy 9 [Greatest Hits] |
| Console: | Sony Playstation |
| TV Standard: | NTSC-U |
| Developer(s): | Squaresoft |
| Publisher(s): | Square EA |
| Release Date: | 2000-07-07 |
| Players: | 1 |
| Co-op: | No |
| ESRB: | T - Teen |
| Type: | Role-Playing |
Final Fantasy IX[a] is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Squaresoft for the PlayStation video game console. It is the ninth game in the main Final Fantasy series. The plot centers on the consequences of a war between nations in a medieval fantasy world called Gaia. Players follow bandit Zidane Tribal, who kidnaps Alexandrian princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII as part of a gambit by the neighboring nation of Lindblum. He joins Garnet and a growing cast of characters on a quest to take down her mother, Queen Brahne of Alexandria, who started the war. The plot shifts when the player learns that Brahne is a pawn of a more menacing threat, Kuja, who shares a mysterious history with Zidane spanning two worlds.
