Afterthoughts

Here are my thoughts on after I finished Final Fantasy IX. At the end of the game I had an unsettling feeling, it didn't feel like it was over... What was I fighting for anyways? I was fighting to destroy Kuja and save the planet but even after that I felt something was weird. Well, it's only until I've seen the whole ending, maybe twice, that I relized that this story wasn't mostly about saving the planet and defeating the bad guy. It was about life. Throughout the game every character learned the value of life. Also, it was a little wierd in the end how Kuja was suddenly acting like one of the hero characters. Throughout the game I saw him as a bad, bad man but now I see that was all a misunderstanding. In a way, Kuja really was the hero. He was the one that showed everyone that life has value, even if it was done in all the wrong ways he showed it. He showed that there was a reason to exist, that is why he wouldn't be like all the other Genomes. He wanted to be an individual and knew that he was not just a robot-minded Genome like everybody else. He knew his life had meaning. Even in the end, the only reason he went so totally berserk was he was afraid of losing his life. He valued it. Zidane did too and that's why he said he would of done the same thing Kuja did and tried to destroy Gaia and Terra. Maybe that's why I had an unsettling feeling, I never really destroyed any real evil and saved the planet. Well, that is all I have to say on the ending.

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