Comment on Final Fantasy IX Coming to PC & Smartphones by Anonymous:

One thing they really need to do is get rid of the pre-battle delay. I did a timed test at some point, and the average time before you finally had control of your characters was around 15 seconds. It doesn’t sound like much until you consider the nature of frequent random battles in the game. That’s as long as many modern games’ zone load times.

For comparison, FF7 was about 9-10s, FF6 about 5 seconds.

Even compare Uematsu’s battle music in this game compared to other FF games — there’s a very deliberate filler at the beginning.

It’s probably one of the biggest things that makes the game unbearable by modern standards — having to sit there and watch dumb swirly effects and unnecessary camera panning just to get to the battle.


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