Part II
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There was a website called The Gaming Intelligence Agency (this is the mirror) and at one point they were sent these concept sketches…
You can find the GIA’s articles about the sketches here and here. They said that these came from reliable insiders…
They’re pretty interesting. I just checked out the scans for the FFIX artbook and I guess these aren’t included.
These are really early art, I guess they weren’t even considered to be FF IX, more like drawings for FF IX and other future ideas? Obviously some elements in the final game can be seen in the sketches (like Freya and Quina), but the job system is a curiosity (either a hypothetical FFT game or considering taking the FFII/III/V road???) Someone once told me that one of the sketches reminded him of the battle system in FFXII.
Every now and then I like to look at these sketches. They’re really interesting and some of them are pretty neat, though obviously not all of them could be translated well into a game, I think…
PS here’s The GIA’s FFIX section.
(chocobo copter? o___O)
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