Final Fantasy IX content

[Vyrerus]

Dun Scaith features Deathgaze which featured in IX and the 3rd to last boss.
Again, an airship assault in the same style as the airships from IX.
The city of Dun Scaith itself draws some design parallels with Kuja's desert palace.

Deathgaze first debuted in FFVI, so it is an FFVI reference.


As for FFIX references... hmm... hard to think of anything that hasn't been mentioned.

[MsMisato]

Is there any word of 14 getting or having content tied to this game? An old favorite of mine from the PS1 days and I wish it got a little more love.

Edit: The only thing I know of is the Tantalus garb but is there anything beyond this?

I want to say during the 1st year of ARR they had Shantotto (sp) pop a visit in an event. That was a fun event. Too bad they didn't bring that one back this year but I suspect they did not because they made the reward available on mog station.

But they also did have the maiden of rhapsody event again this past summer as well which brought Iroha from FFXI as well. I like that one because they had the battle music from FFXI.

[Noitems]

Shadows of Mhach alliance raid series contains nods to IX. Sky Pirates, Ozma as a boss, the first boss of the last raid takes place on an airship. The music for Weeping City and Dun Scaith use the FFIX battle theme as the main melody in their songs.

Hildibrand's HW storyline is all about him working with a mammet named Gigi who he considers his son, similar to Vivi from IX.

Cruise Chaser is a big one too with the same model as Arc, and is usually seen very often in TEA due to Limit Cut prog lmao.

I'd personally love to see more tied into IV, IX, and XIII raidwise as I think there could be some very cool ideas from each of them.

[Eloah]

I noticed that no one has mentioned the Prima Vista from the Ivalice Raids. And what about the NPC Mikoto from the Ivalice Raids and Bozja. She's a reference to Zidane and Kuja's sister.

[TaleraRistain]

As others mentioned, the HW Hildebrand story is retelling Vivi's personal story in IX as a mammet named Vivi created by a Sharlayan named Quan, complete with bittersweet resolution. Hildebrand adopts him as his "son" and names him Gigi because Vivi has forgotten his past.

[Puremallace]

Is there any word of 14 getting or having content tied to this game? An old favorite of mine from the PS1 days and I wish it got a little more love.

Edit: The only thing I know of is the Tantalus garb but is there anything beyond this?

Each expansion has its themes if noone has figured this out and especially lately. All the weapons from FF7, Eden raid literally is based on FF8 and then the last expansion had all FF6 content even fighting Kefka.

The entire job and class system is from FF5 so it makes since that when they go FF9 they are going to go in pretty hard. My guess is they are waiting for some summoning based expansion since FF9 was really big on that or maybe next expansion they might go full FF10

[Vickii]

I want some FF4 stuff before any others. One of my favorites, and FF14 is severely lacking in content pulled from it. I hope we'll get something with the next expansion at least, since we're getting closer to going after the Ascian home base. Fights against the elemental lords especially could be really amazing.

Is that Barbariccia and Cagnazzo etc? They’d be perfect for FFXIV. I mean it’s basically what XIV already does with its end game trials.

[Kiurai]

Aren't the jesters in Eulmore basically Zorn and Thorn from IX?

[Enkidoh]

Aren't the jesters in Eulmore basically Zorn and Thorn from IX?

That's what I assumed - they wear similar attire, speak in rhyme and finish each other's sentences, and work for an equally morbidly obese, decadently corrupt monarch (and look like twins but actually aren't).

And yet they're first introduced with a music track from FFIV (Dancing Doll Calcabrina). But they're still clearly based on Zorn and Thorn.

[MsQi]

I guess it all depends on what you consider "content". This game is sprinkled throughout with references to the entire FF series. But no there has been no crossover/collaboration event, nor something on the level of the return to ivalice stuff.

I would love to see some though.