Final Fantasy IX – 2000 Developer Interviews (Patreon)

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These Final Fantasy IX interviews were originally published in Hyper Playstation magazine, shortly before the game's release in July 2000. As pre-release interviews, they contained a good deal of promotional fluff, so I have slightly edited them down to capture the more substantive parts. The conversation is largely focused on Sakaguchi's big-picture vision for FFIX, with interesting design tidbits scattered throughout.

This is just the first "tranche" of FFIX interviews in our archive here--next time I'll add Hiroyuki Ito's FFIX Ultimania interview, so look for more in the future!