Playing FF9 again

>Playing FF9 again
>Just finished Disc 2
>So many fucking plot holes that the story doesn't even make sense

1. Okay so Burmecia (Rat Kingdom) makes no fucking sense. The bad guys take the city and then Kuja tells Brahne to "move your army outside the city." (Cleyra) But you get there and there's no army at all. Why wouldn't a portion of the army already be there?

2. Also, why does the King of Lindblum (technological advanced culture with multitude of airships) make you walk to Burmecia in the first place?

3. Cleyra's magical defense just stops working. Out of the fucking blue. Makes no sense but whatever.

4. Queen Brahne sends assassins after our heroes. One of the assassins catches our heroes on their way to a secret mining facility that leads to another continent. HOW THE FUCK DID SHE KNOW THAT'S WHERE THEY WERE GOING? The last whereabouts of them was escaping Alexandria from a tunnel that leads to Treno. Wouldn't she look for them in Treno? It makes 0 fucking sense that she would know they were heading to another continent.

Just wait until your party members start leaving and joining you at random and with no explanation whatsoever.
>Quina disappears on another continent
>nobody notices
>later shows up in fucking Treno even though it's literally impossible for her/him to travel back

Kuja sees Garnet and recognizes her in Treno. AT HIS AUCTION HOUSE.

>Does nothing.

WHAT??????

1. How the fuck did you miss the fact that Cleyra is protected by a huge windstorm?
2. The South Gate got damaged during the Black Waltz 3 chase. So you can't reach it by airship temporarily. And Cid's flagship got hijacked by his wife who ran away with Kuja.
3. The should have renewed it with a ritual, but it failed for some reason, yes. Ill omens and such.
4. Lani's just that good at tracking. Do not doubt the cowtits.

He also recognizes Zidane as a potential danger in Burmecia and still does nothing. Just handwave it as hubris or some shit.

WINDSTORM IS IN ONE AREA. THERE IS A WHOLE LOT OF PLACES FOR AN ARMY "OUTSIDE THE CITY" - KUJA

Not that guy, but Alexandrian army should have been gathering around the windstorm in preparation for the attack. Yet when you arrive, there's absolutely nothing.

OP BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
LITERALLY
BLOWN
THE
FUCK
OUT

And "outside" is the world map. It's just not displayed on there.

Just turn your brain off bro

>2. The South Gate got damaged during the Black Waltz 3 chase. So you can't reach it by airship temporarily. And Cid's flagship got hijacked by his wife who ran away with Kuja.

Check the map Cleyra or Burmecia are nowhere near the South Gate. And if you meant the North Gate then how did Queen Brahne get her airship to Cleyra?????

How did Zidane and co. walk through a literal army without noticing it?

It's a big tree.

Forgot the map. I need to go to bed.

If you depart from Lindblum you have to go through the South Gate first to reach the North Gate.
Or take the ground route through Gizamaluke's Grotto directly to Burmecia.

Before the seige of Cleyra. The heroes decide to investigate the happenings of why the sandstorm. During which they are ambushed by Alexandrian soldiers. Once they realize that the city is going to be raided they run back up the tree to defend the city.

We get a scene with Beatrix saying "Ha! They fell for it!" FELL FOR WHAT? All they did was walk down the tree???? What did they fall for????

...

Fell for the Alexandrian infantry attack, when the actual invasion happened by teleporting the black mages and Beatrix from the airships.

Kuja is a trap.

Airships are mist-powered. Only Hilda Garde runs on steam and can fly outside of the Mist Continent.

>FF9 is good because its a return to Final Fantasys roots!
Is there any easier way to spot when someone hasn't actually played the game.

Yeah, your comment.

>t. hasn't played ff9

Not that it actually mattered, because Beatrix Sue would have trounced them anyway.

you understand that the early game airships rely on the mist to travel and can't go over the mountains, right? this was a massive plot point. The only airship that didn't run on the mist was Cid's private airship but that was stolen by his wife.

its crazy that of all the final fantasy games to bitch about bad plot points you actually point out one of the most consistent ones. let's talk about the mess that is FF8 or FF7.

FFIX was a mistake.

Its literally just a mashup of all the previous games, messiest FF ever.

There's nothing consistent about IX, user. It couldn't even come up with anything resembling a story or characterization for two of your party members, pretty much forgot about another after the beginning of disc 2, and the """"""final boss"""""" was such an asspull that even Ultimania just shrugged and went "it's darkness, I guess".

Still a better plot than FF8, *including* the disgraceful unjustifiable final boss.

What is the point in Amarant? His characterisation is basically he neatly got in a fight with Zidane once.

Bollocks, 8 has one of the best/cleverest and most cohesive plots overall.

and Freya's was her boyfriend fucked off and left her.

Ssssssh...it's ok...gunblade...gun...blade....you stab someone and then shoot them at the same time...it works...