[Video Soundtrack] Master of Time [FINAL FANTASY IX]
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Title: Master of Time
Composed by: Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged by: Nobuo Uematsu
『FINAL FANTASY IX』
🎦Video Soundtrack： • 【Video Soundtrack】FINA...
🎧Original Soundtrack：
・FINAL FANTASY IX Original Soundtrack
• FINAL FANTASY IX Origi...
・FINAL FANTASY IX Original Soundtrack PLUS
• FINAL FANTASY IX Origi...
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One of my favorite tracks and scenes in the game. Garland’s theme evokes power and authority, and the scene in the Invincible right after the destruction of Alexandra is a great introduction to the game’s true antagonist. I remember being shocked when Garland mentioned not only Kuja but also Zidane transgressing against him.
And then he gets shafted, Garland is a much more morally ambiguous antagonist than Final Fantasy usually serves up (give or take a Delita). His job demands he get his hands dirty, but Garland is absolutely certain that his doing it for the sake of his world's survival absolves him. It's unfortunate that Final Fantasy IX's atrocious pacing robs him of the impact he should have had, and as a result he ends up playing third fiddle to Brahne and Kuja -- a pair of far more typical cartoon villains and less interesting antagonists.
Pandemonium, The Castle Frozen in Time.
ついにガーランドか・・・
そろそろ独りじゃないとテラが聞けるのか・・・！！
Fantastic.......oh wait wrong place
Garland from Final Fantasy I and Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin.
A lot of similarities with FFXVI plot.
Garland act like Ultima, and their goals are identical ( revive an old dormant civilization, with the destruction of the actual one).
Zidane and Kuja are angels of death ( sent by Garland ) and the ones with the job of killing earthlings.
The same real mission of Clive, more or less...
The difference is that XVI had much better execution and writing than IX did.
@@Zelink108 ofc FFIX is 20+ years old 😅🤣
@@olbericaegis206 I think it has more to do with FFIX being rushed so the parts of the game after you leave the Mist Continent don't live up to the fantastic first part. Also weird design choices like making Kuja an obnoxious narcissist (not a very compelling villain, especially after Garland).
I would just add that Garland didn't really have any independent motives though. He was a machine programmed and charged by the Terrans to be the steward over Terra and engineer their resurrection. He even says, after he leads the party to the crystal world, that he has no regret for his actions because he was only doing what he was designed to do.
@@PaulvonOberstein Kuja is only a scared child. He lives in his fantasy where he is "Immortal". The ending scene when he finally repent to Zidane, is beautiful. Better villain than Ultimecia, Vayne, and the homeless man from FF XV.
Garland should've gotten the chrono trigger instead... 😆😁
Few are the story bits I wish could be done differently, and this is one of them. For Garland, and for Kuja, the Eidolons are a massive deal because Eidolons purportedly have the power to thwart their plans... But that all goes out the window when the last major one to have a cutscene is Alexander, and it puts up NO resistance whatsoever against the Invincible after it just casually beat _Bahamut._ None. Completely neutering the apparent threat that the greatest power of Summoners had and just tossing it aside; Few things more jarring than major villain motivations not being a concern and a big good for the heroes practically amounting to a red herring over it.
I WISH Alexander remained somehow, either in a weaker form, or a shard attempting to resurrect itself, as a testament to its power and resilience and to justify the concerns of Garland, because while Ark is cool and all... It's first met as a boss with nowhere near the firepower of its summoned counterpart, and no explanation for its power on top of being very easy to miss. Straight up, Alexander just get shafted horribly in the story, and the Summoner tribe made more tragic and insignificant when their Champion among Eidolons is little more than fodder. I LIKE Madeen and the setup for them as a Holy Summon as somewhat making up for it, but this was just painful.
Also, I refuse to call this theme anything other than Janitor of Time.
That’s one of the things we can actually agree on, how Alexander was disappointing and a complete waste of a perfectly good plot. What makes the Eidolons even more pointless is how Kuja didn’t even need them to begin with and could have just focused on achieving Trance this whole time. I criticize this a lot in my review fic.
Trance's story execution. Another huge problem of IX is it's gameplay-story segregation, especially with Trance. Aside from this one scene in the Evil Forest, Trance isn't mentioned or addressed anywhere outside of battle and in the actual lore. It seems to be purely a gameplay gimmick, until a certain point in the story where it's suddenly addressed in-universe and then has big story relevance, which also creates a ton of plot holes, but I will address those fully when that point comes. The point for now is that: Exactly how Zidane goes "super-saiyan", Eiko grows wings, and Amarant turns into a flickering purple demihuman is never really explained, but it's never really an issue… at first. The PSX Final Fantasy games had adopted this policy of "what happens in battle, stays in battle." This is the reason that Squall never levels any cities when he brings down that hundred-mile energy column during his Blasting Zone limit break, or why the Shinra Mansion can still be standing after Cloud summons Bahamut while standing in the living room. But towards the end of the game, Final Fantasy IX violates this rule by taking a battle mechanic and then turning it into a plot point. A logistical nightmare ensues. How exactly does Kuja use other people's souls to attain Trance, and how is he able to sustain it for so long? If all you need is a soul and angry feelings to enter Trance, why can't Beatrix do it? Hell, for that matter, why isn't everybody on Gaia and Terra turning into glowing demigods and blowing each other up whenever they lose their tempers? Come on Final Fantasy, if you want anyone other than nerds taking you seriously, you gotta do something about all these plot holes.
-Kuja was in Burmecia when the party fought Beatrix and used Trance powers.
-Mog didn't use trance, she just reincarnated into her natural form, Madeen.
-In what way is Trance an "eruption of rage against the environment"? Trance, in gameplay, accumulates over a dozen battles and activates at the most inopportune moment.
-In the party, everyone, even the worthless crap-eater, Quina, even the rusty tin-can and the six-year-old, are able to trance with might and energy.
…and Kuja never knew about any of this? What nonsense! Even Steiner of all people had some knowledge of it, with what he said when Zidane first Tranced in the Evil Forest. There is a frigging library in the Desert Palace where Kuja lives, and he never looked through any of those books on Trance or the Alexandria Library? (Especially with how the Terra archives should have way more knowledge about Trance) Heck, one of the whole reasons that Zidane was supposed to be superior to Kuja was that Zidane could Trance and Kuja couldn't. (as stated in the Ultimania) Kuja never found that out from any data files?
Before this point, as I've explained in the Evil Forest, Trance was just purely a gameplay gimmick with absolutely no references or lore outside of battle, but now, out of nowhere, and pretty nonsensically in regards to Kuja (who thinks that Mog "Tranced", which is not the case), Trance has suddenly and forcefully become a major plot point, and also makes Kuja's whole hunt for the Eidolons, which took up around 70% of the game, a huge waste of time.
Why did Garland even NEED an “Angel of Death” like Zidane and Kuja to begin with when the Invincible was already so ridiculously powerful and the perfect weapon for his plans?
@@Zelink108 It astounds how you can be so close and so far away at the same time by mischaracterizing Trance. Steiner himself states it's a rare thing early in the game when he sees Zidane transform. Now could it have been better balanced and revealed? Sure, but the fact remains not a single temporary member can ever achieve it.
It is a great burst of power being unleashed, and for Kuja, who is obsessed with ANY power he can get to show himself superior to Garland and Zidane, he will use, be it Eidolons that get terribly shafted by the story, or Trance which DOES get multiple in-battle moments of prominence often fitting with the plot. Vivi becomes it automatically against Black Waltz 3 killing the mages trying to protect him from it, and Steiner against the final Mist Beasts alongside Beatrix confessing his will to protect her. And Mog's case can very easily be Trance AND a reveal of an Eidolon at the same time, but regardless he is inspired how to go about it stealing souls to make that happen on himself, who is incapable of it.
Expecting Gaia to blow itself apart over Trance, when ALL temporary characters cannot use it, is exactly why I take more and more issues with your "reviews" here because it's as if you played a different game or skimmed the game.
@@MrMarket1987 No, it’s because IX explains everything so poorly. Steiner’s claims of trance being “rare” are vague at best, and doesn’t explain why Beatrix doesn’t have it, or how Kuja didn’t know anything about Trance until Gulug Volcano. Kuja has a library in the Desert Palace, and you expect me to buy that he has never once read about Trance? Stop defending IX’s contrived and lazy writing and weak world building.
@@MrMarket1987 Mog can’t Trance, because she was actually an EIDOLON, and Eidolons can’t trance. She was just assuming her true form.
@@Zelink108 Vague explanations does not make them inherently bad explanations; The only thing that is being defended here so vicariously and stubbornly is a lack of reading comprehension, and it ain't mine.
Kuja KNOWS what Trance is, but until he sees it for himself up close HOW Mog goes into Trance, Eidolon or not, it doesn't click with him until THEN that he can just artificially manifest that power in himself to empower himself further. He isn't just a megalomaniac villain, he is also a mad scientist, and he had the twisted idea to hijack souls of the Invincible to that end because he IS that smart, capable, and twisted as a weapons broker, Genome, and magician.
And Mog wasn't hiding their power as an Eidolon, she couldn't manifest it fully until Tranced because they were quite young and inexperienced. They weren't pretending to be a cowardly Eidolon, they WERE a cowardly Eidolon. There's _literal_ writing on the Eidolon Wall at Madain Sari bringing up that the remaining Summoners had one final wish to grant a guardian and friendly Eidolon as they perish; That Eidolon is very likely Mog manifested into existence.
1:05 [FMV: The Invincible charges up and unleashes a full blast on Alexander. An ENORMOUS explosion erupts, destroying virtually all of Alexandria, which we see from above]
And that's the last we will see of Alexander. I'm not even kidding, all that build up towards Alexander since the freaking beginning, such as the opening FMV at the beginning of the game having emphasizing shots focusing on Alexandria Castle, which the strongest Gaia Eidolon seems to be connected with, the pieces of the Alexander jewel, especially Garnet's pendant which the FMVs also had some shots of (the pendant is even on the game over screen!), and yet Alexander's whole role was to just to have one cool scene and then get easily devastated and blown up by the Invincible and drops out of the rest of the story, never appearing again with really few mentions. The rest of the game might as well be considered a completely different story (which will definitely feel that way when Terra is thrusted in), and the whole thing will be rendered even more pointless once we get to the "Kuja goes Trance" segment.
Also, keep in mind of the story-breaker power that is the Invincible, because it causes some of the biggest plot holes in the game, which I will explain once we get to Garland and his reveals.
[Screen changes to Garland in the ship]
Garland "More souls have returned..." "In microscopic proportions, the process still continues after thousands of years." "Eventually, these circulating souls will no longer belong to Gaia." "They must never be circulated back..."
Okay, first off, why is Garland saying things to himself that he already knows about? I guess the writers just lazily wrote him monologuing exposition to himself. Secondly, "no longer belong to Gaia"? Is that implying that they will go to Terra? That is not what the Iifa Tree is doing, it's expelling the Gaia souls from the Gaia Crystal altogether and replacing them with the Terra Souls, it this another bad translation?
Garland "Kuja did well. If only he had lasted longer..."
Uh, weren't you going to replace him with Zidane because Zidane was better than Kuja? Why do you suddenly care?
Garland "I never imagined he would choose to end his remaining days on Gaia..."
But he didn't, he was trying to get Alexander to use against you. Unless what Garland means by this dialogue is that he thinks Kuja was killed by that explosion just now, but why? Zidane was in the castle where the point blank of that energy blast that caused that explosion hit, and he, along with Garnet and Eiko (and I'm pretty sure the other party members that were still in the castle at that point) got out of that completely unscathed… with no real explanation. And you seem to be completely aware of that from your next line, so what makes you think that Kuja didn't make it out, especially when he was just on the outskirts of Alexandria?
Garland "Perhaps, this was his fate, set in ages past." "I, too, cannot escape my fate; someday, I must face your counterpart..."
Enough with the pretentious words Garland. Why can't you just take back Zidane now? From what we see of the Invincible later, there seems to be a tractor beam on it, so I can't see why Garland can't just use it to suck up Zidane when he has a clear opening to do so when Zidane is unconscious and everyone is in disarray.
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0:00 "You have gone too far, Kuja." "I granted you the freedom to do as you wish in Gaia for one purpose alone." "Now that you have lost sight of your mission, I will no longer tolerate your actions."
Well gee, Garland, maybe you shouldn't have let Kuja still have control over the Invincible after he stole Zidane and dumped him on Gaia, because Kuja clearly showed at that point that he was not to be trusted. You won't tolerate his actions now, but you were perfectly fine with his actions back then? Also, how are you just now noticing this? How are you able to watch over him?
"You have not the slightest idea whom you are defying. I will show you soon enough." "You too, Zidane..."
Well, Zidane doesn't remember any of this so it's more that he is oblivious rather than "defying you". Also this dialogue suggests that Garland has been aware of Zidane's status for a while, which begs the question of how he is able to see what is happening on Gaia and also why he hasn't taken back Zidane yet when he has had plenty of openings to do so.
[Screen returns to Kuja]
Kuja "!? What happened to the Invincible!?" "Enslave Alexander, as you have enslaved Bahamut!" "!" "Could it be...Garland!?" "Impossible! Why would he come to Gaia!?"
Well maybe it's because the Invincible is Garland's ship, Kuja. Also, Kuja is acting like Garland has never come to Gaia before, how else would Garland have planted the Iifa Tree?
Kuja "If it is indeed Garland, he must know my plan! But why has he assumed control of the Invincible...?" "!? No! He can't be..."
I didn't understand this either, how does Kuja control the Invincible at all? Sphincter power? If the ship is controlled by Kuja, how the heck did Garland spawn in it? How did Kuja miss this? If it can be controlled remotely, why is Garland in it personally?
I get this theme is supposed to be slow and sinister, but it’s WAY too slow! 😖
Garland's Theme and the Iifa Tree are the only songs in that game that I don't really care for. It suits Garland perfectly, but it kind of drags.
It’s one of the few actually good and non-generic or cartoony themes in the game.