I still found it strange how people think waaaay too much into Necron. He says "I am the endless darkness" he is the void, he is everything that isn't. space and time. its what you could call a motionless engine or a technical "god".

I hated FF8 so much, I fell in love with FF9 immediately. Everything about it was a breath of fresh air.

FF9 is so good. Love the vid

Lore of Redeeming Necron: Final Fantasy's Most Underrated Antagonist momentum 100

Ive played this game when i was 13(35 now) Hills of despair is like purgatory of ff9, im convinced that kuja's final move (ultima) actually killed the party and by doing that the party got sent into a pulgatory stage where necron appeared. Necron is basically a god and probably the reason why it can see what the world of gaia is going through in purgatory world

Reminds me of P3. The stories resolution of Nyx is not as overidealistic like FF9. Love both.

Why should they know about Necron? That's up to Necron.

Ultimecia is the best final boss fight. But I love necron and this video.

Welcome back! I missed you! "It's time to lose all five of the people still watching this by bringing up an outdated sub genre that only terminally online Millennials like myself enjoy..." Hey, you know your demographic, baby. Terminally online Millennial here, always love seeing a fellow kid making videos about the things I love.

Necron is the inspiration for Meteion. Can’t change my mind.

26:46 that will probably be one of those memories that will comeback just before the end. Like the land of memoria

I still wish they mentioned or hinted at Necron SOMEWHERE in the game. Just anywhere. Like, even vaguely. Anyway, amazing video. FF9 is one of my least favorite FF games, but it's videos like yours which makes me appreciate it more and more.

Vaporwave Mentioned, My day is made. This was a lovely Video~

I really like your point on why you've come around to enjoying boomer shooters. I've realized that humanity has come to a point where large-scale innovation is much harder to achieve in regards to art and entertainment. Music genres have stagnated (no more sweeping changes like the electric rock experimentation in the late 60's or the brazen hip-hop movements of the 80's-90's), hit movies are now more sensations than they are works of art, and AAA game companies are too busy trying to either scrape every penny from their player base or refining every square micron of a character's model to realize that they're making the same boring-ass game over and over again. The only way I can think to make something "new" again is to take something old and put your own spin on it, like how Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers took dozens of samples from previous works to make their cult classic album Paul's Boutique, like how Tippett used an outdated animation method to create a beautiful and intriguing movie (I am for sure going to watch that now), and especially like how these new boomer shooter devs are taking the seeds of DOOM and growing their own unique games from them.

Ayyyyy your back! yeah one thing i like about the indie style of shooter is how stylised they are! I mean hell just look at how different all the games look in the intro section of this vid and how varied they are. Also, i tend to find the higher quality the graphics become the harder it is to pick out targets from the backgrounds. When everything looks amazing, nothing looks amazing. Then again I actually AM old enough to remember what dial up internet sounds like so maybe im just too old for modern gaming lol

I’ve never understood why I don’t like ffix, and have struggled to understand it even though it contains so much of what I love about final fantasy. You have answered that question. I’m just not that much of a nerd

I don't consider it an accident that FF9 came out more or less at the same time as Chrono Cross, which had a LUDICROUSLY confusing plot. FF9 wasn't generally like that, but Necron was inexplicable to me.

Finally someone else who feels the same about ff9 and necron as i do ❤

7:08 When people talk about the little nods to Star Wars in some Final Fantasy titles, I feel like they never mention that this final boss monologue pulls a quote directly from Yoda.

my takeaway from this review: as you get older, you will grow more and more fond of frogs

Honestly, I never thought of Necron as some sort of Bigger Bad or The Man Behind The Man. To me, a line from 8-Bit Theater, best sums up Necron: "Death is the natural state of all being. Life is the aberration. It is fleeting and full of pain. Come! Embrace the enternity in nothing!" And a line from the vampire in Final Fantasy I also applies to him: "All living things are born to die." Despite Queen Brahne, Garland and Kuja being those with horrifically high bodycounts, each of them valued life to an extent. Brahne loved her kingdom, it's people and her daughter before she lost her mind and decide power was more important. Garland wanted to ensure that the people and culture of Terra lived, even if it came at the cost of everyone on Gaia. And even Kuja's suicidal cosmic temper tantrum was done after learning from Garland that he had been designed with a short lifespan, and if anything wanted to be free from Garland's control and live his own life. As I see it, Necron represents the absolute nihilistic thought of life, that everything is pointless and we're all born just to die. But, as FFIX showcases, life isn't born just to die, it is born so it can live.

"Stay safe and let's keep living with all our heart. " amen. That really hits the spot. Thanks, dude and dudes beyond the yonder way reaches.

FF9 has the best writing, and FFX has the best story. Actually working on a series of essays on this very subject.

Necron is basically Square's take on Unicron from Transformers. Both are all powerful beings that are death and destruction incarnate! The only way that brings them life is all forms of negativity across their respective universes. Thus, they will come back.

the perfect essay describing why ff9 will forever be my favorite game of all time

I think you're REALLLLYYYY trying to make sense of a nonsensical boss. Just be honest, Necron is stupid, and anyone wanting to make sense of Necron by watching a 30 minute KZbin video just goes to prove how stupid he is in the game.

Always thought Necron is another form of Soulcage. He did say he cannot die before you defeat him in disc 2. Necron is also fought in the crystal world in Iifa Tree. Maybe they are the same..

If square wishes to, IMO necron has that potential to breach other realities other than nine as viewer of sorts. He is already a terrifying entity that came outta nowhere. Since we already have sixteen titles of series, it would make sense that he judges worlds based on how these worlds either thrived or struggles forward. Personally I just wanna see necron again in a different ff to prove that these worlds are in a link of sorts

This entire game went over my head. I was 14 tho. These games are definitely made for adults

Just say "gamefaqs" it's ok

Zidane's character is all about accepting what your given in life and not dwelling on what is lost. As the flat arc character of the story it's what he teaches the other characters and near the end the message is tested by testing him. "You don't need a reason to help people." Necron takes Zidane's motto while bending it against the message Zidane delivers. Necron is not content with what he was given in life nor does he believe life should have to be content; he seeks to help by putting life out of it's misery.

"Omnicidal" is a brilliant word, and I dont think Ive ever heard someone use it before. My compliments

Can't be a nice feeling playing it, but it's nice to see any story steer away from a conventional three act structure and happy ending. Solid video overall but quality writing especially, good stuff.

- I FINALLY DECIDED TO DESTROY EVERYTHING AND NOW YOU D.... - Wait. Who are you? - Necron. - Are you Kuja? - No. I am Necron. - Are you mutated Kuja? - No. - Are you trance Kuja? - You already fought this one. - Then who are you? - Necron. I just told you. - Never heard of you. - I am... m-m-m... just a sec... <reads from a paper scrap> "a spooky thing that decided to appear from nowhere and destroy everything". - Are you related to the plot somehow? - Well, not really... - Then what are you doing in this game? - No idea. They just told me to come here, have a short speech, a battle, then I'll have my money. - Oh, yeah, a speech. I interrupted you too early. Does your speech have any clues? - They never actually gave me anything. "Just say something loud and scary." I decided to use the classic style of an overconfident psychopathic villain. You can't go wrong with this one. - I see. So basically you could appear any time and destroy the world whenever you wanted? Everything I done in this game didn't matter. - Well, sort of... Actually they probably had some explanation in mind, but they didn't tell anyone myself included. - Damn, why can't I just fight Kuja again? Even this would make more sense. - You can't. He is a good guy now. - Wait, what? WHY???!!!

Proposal. Vivi calls himself "Vivi" because he realized there were four letters probably on a cage or cell or pen. VI Roman numeral 6 The black mages in the village usually have a number associated with them. This is evidence of Vivi basically being a prototype.

This is surprisingly one of the darker final fantasy games in terms of existentialism, fatalism, and mortality. I mean half the premise of the game isan interdimensional invasion where a highly advanced species and planet are quite literally siphoning off the life essence of another planet and replacing souls with stuff that makes monsters. They're basically colonizing on a sci fi scale. The themese are simple enough to be understood and digested by a younger mind (speaking from experience here) while also being upbeat enough to make you want to fight on to the end. Writers did a super good job setting theme and establishing arc, from self-centered focus to a societal glance to a take on some early philosophy questions on life. I honestly think the problem is that due to the nature of the game the characters are indeed caricatures of personalities that appear one dimensional because they kind of have to be for the plot to go forward. You really wouldn't see a spin off game or story for a lot lf the characters because their simplicity ends with the conclusion of the story. This is just a basic lack of depth in order to make plot points stick for the intended audience. At the same time, if they weren't simple would they have been as treasured for our age at the time? I remember playing ffviii and just could not get into it as my 13 year old brain just didn't "think" like that. Yet i can almost tell you the entirety of ffix's story from old memory.

You keep calling Az Rans an orc, when he is clearly a Troll, guess you got a snarky comment in the end.

Great video, really got me in the Christmas spirit.

Fantastic and depressing video

I actually like these random final bosses but idk maybe it feels like tradition or something in the series

I don't think there is anyway to redeem him. He was shoehorned in. It was so jarring.

I just thought it was funny that the final boss quotes yoda.

This is an absolutely wonderful video and analysis of FF9. Excellent work.

Just watching this video made me emotional. Damn this game is just way too good. For a game ive only played once like nearly 20 years after it came out it has had one hell of an impression on me.

ffix is my favorite game too and i feel exactly the same about necron. also i teared up like four separate times during this essay because im so tender abt this game and its messages. thank you for your time and effort making this!

Amazing video brother. So great you rock

So hear me out. Endsinger from ffxiv is Necron done right. Both appear after you take out what you assumed would be the final boss and have similar motives. Bit where necron came at the very end of the game, endsinger came at the start of the final arc of endwalker, allowing her to be built up a bit more before the showdown.