re: Can someone who is a Final Fantasy connoisseur give me their opinion on 1-9?

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I don't get why you are saying this?

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Because the reason that game was made was the way it was is because fans wanted them to go back to cystals and a more traditional fantasy oriented story. So they did.

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They had a nod to first FF's by having a black mage in it and more cartoonish characters but that is about it.

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Garland, elemental crystals, recycled music from older games, cloud's sword in a weapon shop that zidane remarks upon. That's just 4 off the top of my head. I know there is tons of stuff in my recent playthrough that I noticed were specific callbacks to previous games that I can't think of right now.

Yes all FF games reuse things to a degree, but not to the extent IX did.