The Legend of Final Fantasy IX

What gamer hasn’t tried Final Fantasy IX ?

"Final Fantasy IX is the closest to my ideal view of what Final Fantasy should
be." This quote is from Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy
saga. For his last great RPG, Sakaguchi wanted to get back to the roots of his
series in order to amaze the players one last time.
The Legend of Final Fantasy IX deals with the creation of this episode,
sharing a lot of fun trivias. The scenario is also decrypted, as well as the
mythological inspirations. For its return to heroic fantasy, the game is
dressed as a magical theatrical play, including many colorful characters. The
book dives into the influence of classical authors and History on the game,
and unrevealed its last secrets.

An essential book to (re) discover the universe of the mythical series Final
Fantasy !

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

\- Fascinated by print media since childhood, Mehdi El Kanafi, alongside
Nicolas Courcier, wasted no time in launching his first magazine, Console
Syndrome, in 2004. After five issues with a distribution limited to Toulouse,
France, he and Nicolas Courcier decided to create a publishing house under the
same name. One year later, their small business was acquired by Pix’n Love, a
major publisher of books on video games. Over the next four years in the world
of publishing, Mehdi published more than twenty works on major video game
series, and co-wrote several of those works: Zelda, Chronicles of a Legendary
Series, Metal Gear Solid: Hideo Kojima’s Magnum Opus, and The Legend of Final
Fantasy VII and IX. Since 2015, his publishing endeavors have been focused on
analyzing major video game sagas through a new publishing house he co-founded
with Nicolas: Third.

\- Video game journalist for fifteen years, Raphaël Lucas worked for most of
the mags that existed before the fall of Mer 7 (formerly Future France and
Yellow Media), from Joypad to Joystick, including the official magazines,
Consoles More, etc. He started with PC Team and with FJM, the publisher of
Gameplay RPGs. Today he writes mainly for Video Games Magazine, a bit for his
blog, and he has a few projects in the works relating to other gaming topics.
RPG Story Author / BioShock Co-Author: From Rapture to Columbia and The Legend
of FinalFantasy IX
He also runs the Geekomatick blog

\- Fabien Mellado