Trying to Beat Final Fantasy 9 Like My Life Depended on It

[@ClownyGuyToo]

Connor has released like 6 movie long videos in the past month. I ain’t complaining, we eating good boys

[@rad_rex]

Anytime I see 1hr or more video on channel, I save it enjoy later. And damn it's enjoyable

[@PanicInPastel]

Have you guys checked your cholesterol?! 😬

[@astarothgaming1300]

Just wait till you look at his vid channel

[@JoeJiJoestar]

This is the new norm for cmonke

[@Valior-e9q]

True

[@diegosanchezramirez3114]

Just learnt that the dialogue at the end is spoken by Vivi, but the implication is largely lost in translation, meaning he is the one whose memories where lost in the sky by the ending as his lifespan expired.

[@TheDancerMacabre]

In the Japanese version, (I'm told) that Vivi has a particular way of speaking with written verbal tics. So it's obvious that it's Vivi's monologue. Whenever streamers play this game for the first time, I DM a mod who has played this game and ask if it's okay to tell them (or if the mod can tell them directly) I get a little sad when they think it's Kuja or Zidane speaking and they ask at the end "So what happened to Vivi?!" And we have to break the news.

[@Gavid69]

​@@TheDancerMacabre How common is it for people to miss that Vivi is the one that wrote the letter? When I was 12-13 years old I got it pretty much immediately, so this is kinda surprising to me

[@rg9448]

When I played it as a kid, I didnt really understand the last monologue. I only remembered the ending was good Played it again during university, the facts that it was Vivi's last message as he "stopped" hit like a truck

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Good Night, sweet Prince.

[@emma_nutella58]

Time to bust out the French snacks and get all cozied up in bed and watch another long Cdawg movie

[@pasta1549]

Nice, also hi Emma

[@Yammdaff]

Hell yea

[@Yammdaff]

​@@pasta1549 Nice, also hi Pasta

[@stoat7]

Poor Emma, forced to eat French snacks...

[@Thundrfox]

Hi Emma

[@frapollo94]

Did you do a Final Fantasy 10 in one sitting? If you didn't you really should!

[@ariannaroncato5361]

Oh, ciao Frapollo 😊

[@frapollo94]

@@ariannaroncato5361 ehilà

[@lightpoint4426]

This, I'm crossing my fingers that he does it.

[@shaunmiller442]

6?

[@Ash_Wen-li]

He recently did 6 and I think he may be planning to do 10 next

[@crimsongunner]

I really do like his Garland voice. It's a standard refined gravelly smart villian but he preformed it with the right amount of detachment. It was exactly how I see this conversation where Garland is so used to commanding what he considers mindless automatons that he doesn't dress up his talk to appeal to Zidane. The cosmic boredom of a 1000 years of overseeing a monumental task alone.

[@jayfe86]

Still to this day this game has one of the best twists I've ever seen. It's so random that Garnet wants to be called dagger.......it makes literally zero sense until you get to the end where Zidane gets to say the line "Bring my beloved Dagger to me" in I Want to be your Canary

[@MrRickles2pointO]

1:49:45 "No cloud, no squall..." Hold up

[@dearthofdoohickeys4703]

Just realized that now huh

[@Maxim.Nazarenko]

In original japanese language he says different thing.

[@marvingonzalez926]

@@MrRickles2pointO if ff13 had been out by then, no lightning would have been included :) no meteorology of any kind!

[@Suchega_Uber]

The HD version has really changed how I think about the game. Back in the day I thought Amarant had a carrot for a nose.

[@marvingonzalez926]

Not... how I expected that comment to end xD

[@emma_nutella58]

I wanna thank Connor for letting me experience these amazing stories because I don’t have the time and money to do it myself

[@leafyr0kr]

Vivi's letter is never not making me a sobbing mess. God, what a game.

[@Eaglebrace]

Its trully grim reality when you realize its his Letter, He was a favorite character i adored most. Truly a sobby mess that day.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

And it Will get an animated project.

[@FreyrFox]

"oh shit he played DMC 3?!?!? oh its FF9... OH HELL YEAH FF9!"

[@devkrat]

Lol this was my reaction

[@dulcecaffe]

I was lowkey disappointed too😅

[@hashimina_]

Editor got ud with that one

[@Swirlyiswatching]

THATS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT😭

[@SDREHXC]

Somehow y’all managed to click the video without seeing the thumbnail or reading the title. Wild. Editor didn’t “get” anyone. Y’all got yourselves.

[@RinIshi7]

My favorite game of all time. So happy to hear it's your favorite in the series

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

It will get an animated series.

[@GoodDaySoma]

Yet another movie night, anyone want to cdawg and chill?

[@ddavidd816]

Just watched all these 2 hour recaps of Connors stream of ff8, ff7, and ff9. You can see Connor go from Not knowing how the ps1 turn based rpg systems work, to being pretty pro at min/max at the end of ff9. Didn't help that he started with the most confusing ff8 Junction system, took him half the game to start picking up how to junction at all. Then took an couple hours to understanding the materia system in ff7. Then pick up the ff9 job system immediately. Very nostalgic, and fun to watch Connor play through for the first time with voicing the characters and Mouse commenting like a little sister that played it all before.

[@jayfe86]

Ashley Johnson Crit Role reference.........LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@zeeinfinite]

FF9 is the definite best game of my entire life. Got through it in my childhood, relived it again during my teen years, and still replaying now as a father of two.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

It will have an animated series.

[@raiyansayeed1738]

Really glad Conner played FF9. It's still in my top 10 video games of all time. Another thing is that I hope Connor plays Xenogears one day. Although he probably won't like Disk 2, but there's one thing I can say: it has the most ambitious story/plot that a JRPG can ever have. It is what I call an unfinished masterpiece. Although it's highly unlikely, but I pray it gets a remake (with the original story unchanged) one day.

[@thomasnguyen5037]

It's a masterpiece that just had the unfortunate circumstance of not having enough time/money for the second disc.

[@SuparmunBinBatmen]

never knew having a voice over made this 10 times more entertaining

[@ElySpirit2]

one of the most underrated FF series, this one is my all time fave. thanks for playing it Connor!

[@Gsono_]

My favorite Connor videos are him doing long streams on story driven games. I will always support!

[@ithydoodles]

You should play Final Fantasy 6 next. I still can't decide if 6 or 9 is my absolute favorite of the series.

[@Martyyri]

I think he will do 10 next for his boyfriend Lud

[@AoiLucine]

I feel this, I constantly veer back and forth between 6 and 9... they're so good...

[@thewave-qz9lt]

cant wait for the FFx stream.

[@Exalted5581]

Me neither, its my favorite of the series.

[@UmbreonMessiah]

22:05 This was the moment that solidified FFIX as something special to me in terms of it's battle system. The idea that *Blind* could be useful in any way whatsoever - let alone that I could inflict it with Zidane thanks to that sword - was world-opening to me. My brother got stuck here because he didn't know, and when I told him he was blown away as well.

[@aokyoutsuki7744]

I still find it annoying that debuffs are so overpowered that alot of games just make bosses immune to them, while also drowning normal enemies in status moves JUST to inconvenience the player, really annoying circumstances

[@disk3001]

44:31 The Scottish goblins are probably the funniest part of all the FF series Connor has done Connor's Quina is so perfect XD

[@Yammdaff]

CONNOR PLAYS FINAL FANTASY 9? Indeed a good evening

[@Rkanegaming-e]

No Cloud, No Squall, No Tides, No lightning shall hinder us.

[@WorldsTallestLeprechaun]

Damn, this hits you in the feels, for a lot of reasons. I grew up in the middle of nowhere with an SNES, and Final Fantasy 3 (TECHNICALLY Final Fantasy 6) was my shit, and it kinda sucks that I don’t think we’ll ever have games again that are able to PUNCH quite as hard when it comes to stuff like in FF6 when the “World of Ruin” happens. Not gonna spoil it because if you’ve played the game, you KNOW what I’m talking about, and what mean about how modern games have never pulled off a shake-up like that since then. If you’re confused, find a way to play FF6 and try it, you won’t regret it. Advice though about a mechanic that I didn’t understand as a kid. There comes a point where characters can start learning spells based on AP gained after battles, but the gag is that the AP is multiplied percentage-wise based on whatever you’re learning the spell from. So if there’s a “Cure ~ 8” then that means every 1 AP you get from winning a fight will bring that character 8% closer to learning Cure. (meaning you’d need 13 AP total to learn it)

[@wueasxd]

Final Fantasy IX has been my favourite game since im around 10 years old. You dont know how happy makes me watch this with connor reading the lines ♥

[@Stephen_Adegun]

Always nice to see Connor get deeper and deeper into the JRPG rabbit hole. Final Fantasy X is the obvious next game, but towards the end, I really started to think "I'd really like to see Tales of the Abyss." Don't know how feasible it would be, since it's stuck on PS2 and 3DS, but that would apply to seeing Connor play any Tales game, really.

[@DeepVoicedDude]

Nine is really in a league of its own, and it's a damn shame that more people haven't played it because of the awkward time it happened to release. Definitely my favorite FF, and glad Connor enjoyed it too.

[@Cloud2567-i2t]

@15:22 - @15:37 Here's Cid saying what happened to him and everyone brushing it aside @1:18:11 - @1:18:32 Here's Hilda saying what happened and everyone gasping "like bitch what??"

[@seanlongson]

What a guy. Playing the classics and loving them. True gamer.

[@bluelfsuma]

Today, I need to take it easy. My heart needs a rest. This looks like the perfect thing to put on. Thank you.

[@Despicablehobbit]

As someone who does and watches a lot of ff9 speedruns, it's so weird watching people approach this for the first time, but it makes appreciate what a brilliant game it is!

[@zakw8938]

1:42:28 Hey wait a minute, that's the theme to Fortuna in Warframe...

[@Pancake-ob1sv]

These kinds of videos always remind me that Connor is a voice actor

[@Rezumi]

Oh man, I'm glad Connor did these. I forgot how much I lived through the final fantasy games. Reliving some scenes after losing my own friends and family members, after going through my own identity crisis, after seeing parallels on some relationships makes the games hit different in my soul.

[@pikaporeon]

Missed opportunity for Quina to eat the Earth Guardian

[@Daninput]

Same with the special dialogue when you throw Soft on a Stroper.

[@AspiringToFailure]

I love this game, I played FFVII in the 90s on the PS1 too (I still have it!). The cutscenes were legendary and made up for the polygon gaming graphics, and can confirm that they were spread over 4 discs. If you didnt have a save card you couldn't save at all and they were notorious for corrupting haha

[@FreyaPurrito]

FF9 is my favourite FF and the first I properly played and completed as a teen so I'm so happy it was well received! I'll try and watch through the VODs when I can to see the bits in between hehe

[@dia3654]

I just finished watching the VODs.. time to watch this too. 😂 Praise to the editors!! ❤

[@betterthanyou1630]

FFX is next which means Connor is going to play my favorite game ever

[@danieldietz811]

Man these stream compilations have been so good. I would probably never have thought much about a game like this until Connor and co put together such a great video. Pretty awesome time.

[@Jezroth]

I love this game so much, I think I cried half a dozen times during this video alone Thanks for uploading this, it really made my day

[@BluuKiss]

Sooooo happy you played this! My favourite game since childhood

[@deinhien7296]

connor playing the best final fantasy game ?! splendid

[@taymus13]

There were acpuple times there near the end that for a second I legit thought there was in game vpice acting, Connor doing a real good job

[@Exalted5581]

Cant wait for the FFX stream and video, its the one i played on the ps2 when i was a kid and is my favorite game of the series, Love the FF binge and cant wait for you to play all the games :)

[@Nightknight1992]

these videos are so good, hope he also gets into other jrpg franchises eventually. my personal favorite is tales of symphonia^^

[@agotiprime7687]

Devil may peak intro let’s rock (you should make a play through of the 3rd game tho)

[@marvingonzalez926]

Ah, yes. Sir Fartley from Burmerica. No wonder Freya is head over heels.

[@90786jiop]

33:32 The man yearns for the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger once more

[@giancarlo2572]

I cant help but feel anxious to watch him playing ffx

[@alphakowaclips]

40:44 Barden of GAMGAM!!

[@ОлежаТ_Т]

So unfortunate that the editing quality is much worse compared to past FF videos. This is my favorite game. I understand that FFIX isn't that popular, but VOD is a lot more enjoyable to watch at this point.

[@invertebrado]

Really? What make you say that, I didn't noticed anything particularly bad about this video, and at the end Connor even says this is his favorite final fantasy surpassing 7 so no reason for it to be on purpose I think

[@ОлежаТ_Т]

@@invertebrado There are far fewer inserts with explanations from Connor, which is why the narrative relies heavily on editing VOD. And since a large story needs to be contained in a two-hour video, the dialogue ended up being roughly cut, which makes the story less coherent. And the cutting is really rough, especially the abrupt changes in volume and sound, making the experience unpleasant. In past FF videos, the storytelling was smoother and more coherent. And the audio editing was more attentive to volume and sound changes.

[@invertebrado]

@@ОлежаТ_Т the audio things I didn't really noticed, but now that you mentioned, the pacing for this video was all over the place. And it did take some of the emotional beats, the theme of death of this game was something that wasn't also nearly ruminated enough to make things hit as hard as they could. But also... I am not sure how you could preserve doing a video that is 10% of the original length on a game that needs time for things to set in. FF7 was easier to tell because it only really relies on telling the things that happen, this game really needs the time

[@1Diddums]

It does feel as if the editing policy here was: *"Cut whenever CDAWG doesn't speak. Maximum zoomer attention retention."*

[@flexforthetube]

Every time I see a videos of him on Final Fantasy, It makes me want to commit to my long RPG games.

[@quiziix-us]

Iron Mouse having a one liner every 10-20 minutes was a weird add on to this video lol.

[@oriold.3951]

Who else got hyped thinking about the welsh man playing DMC3 ?

[@dante1774]

I would like to see him play dmc 3 it would be funny

[@jdcreeper8307]

My God, the ending of this game always hits me in the feels

[@illusoryquixot]

"Bring my beloved Dagger to me" fuck, right in the heart.

[@emma_nutella58]

Finally found out where Pete got the name Kupo for Kupo

[@ashketchup4377]

I was like say that again when kupo was mentioned

[@johnwitt112]

My absolute favorite! Thanks for playing through it!

[@chibip6]

9 is my fave because it holds a lot of sentimental value. I also thought it was so quirky and over the top at times. LOVE IT

[@Yoru-desu13]

42:10 For someone who can't sing, Connor makes really good sound effects

[@dante_dmc3]

0:01 THIS PARTY IS GETTING CRAZY

[@Chaos0310]

Connor! I just found your channel recently and these videos are glorious and your voice is so silky smooth. Keep it up! Can’t wait for more

[@sarahthegeek1]

Whoever edited this PRAISE BE TO YOU!! LOL you have an amazing sense of humor and many references i get 😂😂❤❤

[@bj22larkin]

You need to play Legend of Dragoon one of these days, best combat, best music, classic crazy story🤟🏼🤙🏼

[@digitalbooklett9357]

I watched the stream vods but I'm so here for the edited version!!! Can't wait for you to tackle the next one. Love chilling with you and Mousey for these long streams.

[@silasskirata]

18:12 That's Vode An! I'd recognize the Republic Commando Soundtrack anywhere!

[@rose_river_]

Been loving these long videos! It's been a vibe lately ❤

[@Forr0n]

Note to myself if I ever get hired as a Cutter: Cut as much as possible while a genocide is happening in the footage. It was really entertaining and at times heartwarming watching you play FF IX. Btw Beatrix is my favorite character. She has such a dramatic story besides Vivi's off course.

[@Butterfliesandzebras]

You can do this again in ten years and cry your eyes for 10 minutes out all over again, such is the gift of final fantasy 9

[@yohlazy]

I remember being there when he started and not stealing when you have a boss that misses half his attacks and a whole party of people with the steal ability and I was like I just can't do this tonight.

[@yoruzeruel5009]

Cool to see Connor and Mudan become full-on movie producers

[@ryoumakoushiro7447]

Ngl, even though I've not played this game, I LOVE the storytelling and the build-ups... Also that last scene... We all be cryin' here too, Mousey

[@biancaarmstrong5097]

Hell yeah! It's the best Final Fantasy game and one of my favorite ones! I love 9 so much, for even though it was underrated in the beginning, I'm glad more people are playing this fantastic game. Awesome soundtrack, a fantastic story, fun characters, and even the NPCs are amazing and fun as well. Also, I know people will not agree with me, but I feel like Zidane and Dagger/Garnet have a beautiful love story. Thank you, Connor, for playing this game, and I hope you had lots of fun playing Final Fantasy IX. Plus I hope Ironmouse will find a way to get back her KZbin channel cause of what happened to her.

[@RaptorTwoFour]

IX is what got me into Final Fantasy. Love it

[@Shft-T4b]

FF7 and FF8 have been the games that get the most attention in the series, but FF9 has its own cult following and now I see why. That ending was perfect.

[@sephiroth21347]

Love the intro using the end boss theme

[@PastellPudding]

Soooob this game have so much meaning to me, keeping me a live as a lonely, suicidal teen in -99 and still going strong. FF9 is the standard I set for any fantasy game, and the game I recommend to anyone wanting to play a FF title... So glad Connor got to play it and love it as much as we do. Watching him learn to love RPGs and cope with cutscenes had been a blast. ^_^

[@lllOnSlAuGhTlll]

FFs creator Hironobu Sakaguchi made this game as a celebratory throwback to end the PSX era and i think he did a pretty good job

[@maurog.ocaranza4142]

Man, Blank had me sad as fuck on my childhood

[@levivansnick6672]

Deserves a like for that intro song of the final boss fight with kuja 👍

[@sparkinstarfall_FD]

Baby hurry up Cdawg just dropped another video

[@shuichi28]

20:06 critical role reference

[@zokora3656]

finally a video on the cods i already watched so i can see it all again in a more condensed format!

[@Mambacit0]

Connor has to do a tier list of the all the RPGs he ends up playing. Hope he picks up other ones after ff series.

[@GaymerJosh]

I can’t believe I missed this. I know what I’m watching at work tomorrow

[@YoMolite]

OH YES MY FAVORITE FF!! I miss this game so much . I really hope they never remaster this game, it would never feel the same

[@JoJoZiddy]

Conor played my favourite game of all time, this is a good day.

[@hobinyuu.9151]

I frkin love the art style of the thumbnail so mucchhhhhh

[@Ppanos423]

My favourite game of all time. Loved your play through!

[@harrynawaz2063]

Ngl, the ending got me tearing🥹🥹

[@brosiah3173]

God I love this shit man, like this format and style are so good!

[@StalePumpkin]

Why did this video take 2 weeks to show up on my recommended? This is a masterpiece

[@ARYS02]

Now i need to play 9 and get back to this video

[@KhoiNguyen-zz2jx]

Now that I think about it, I wonder what actually happened at the end there. I like to think that the Iifa tree at the end somehow save Zidane and Kuja, and that's how Zidane came back (like the roots at the end actually covered them from harm ways afterward). There's also another way of thinking that Kuja saved Zidane from that and actually died for real, but that would be kinda defeated the point of Zidane coming back to save him...

[@Daninput]

As an FFIX enjoyer, It's always a treat to watch new comers play through this game for their first time. SungWon Cho has little admiration to Connor after this.

[@sour1020]

If Connor plays Final Fantasy XII, my life will be complete

[@fosterkitteneos]

He already has.

[@Parkerbrent07]

@@fosterkitteneosno he hasn’t played final fantasy 12 your thinking of a another game

[@invertebrado]

Which XII? XII 1, XII 2 Electric Boogaloo or XII 3 Lightning Strikes back

[@sour1020]

@@invertebrado that's FF 13😭

[@Parkerbrent07]

@@invertebrado just look ff XII the zodiac age for the actual game