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Final Fantasy IX was the only Final Fantasy since VI to adopt a more... how should I put this? Well, it's a more Disney style, versus the more gritty entries of VII and VIII, or the more realistic take in X.
Compare and contrast:
Final Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy IXFFIX was more... chibi? I'm not sure if that's the right word for it, and definitely more colourful. What people didn't expect from a game that looked like that is a deep and moving storyline. Vivi's story, especially, was hard hitting and one of the few things that's made me tear up. It's also one of the few times I've actually seen an existential crisis portrayed eloquently in a game, but I digress.
However, the notion is is that something that's colourful and looks like that only has worth for kids. I believe the current colloquialism (and rather vile it is) is "WoW gayness" and all that that implies. What I've often seen is that people can't look past the style of a game in order to see if it has a good story or not.
To the Moon had a similar problem, but that one looked like a 16-bit JRPG, and people couldn't stand how that looked.
Here's an example. And people look at that and think that it can't have a mature storyline, because in their mind they connect gritty, realistic visuals with emotional storylines, which is a silly and rather over-simplified assumption to make.
But there you go, people make assumptions like that. And more the pity, really. They're missing out on great games when they do that. And you wouldn't believe how often I've seen that kind of sentiment levelled at games like those.
Here's what one's missing out on when they have that kind of point of view. It's a song sung by someone who has a mental disability, one that stops them from communicating/socialising properly.
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