Final Fantasy IX - Zidane's Depression (Scenes & Battles) 

Zidane was the one who always helped his friends in need He helped Vivi find a purpose and meaning in life He helped Garnet by protecting her and helping her resolve the conflict between the nations and helped her see the outside world He helped Freya protecting the kingdom of Burmecia He helped Steiner to see the reality of queen Brahne and question his royalty, and it’s the same with Beatrix He helped Quina travel the world and see different foods He helped Eiko by protecting and saved her from her eildons being extracted from her and he helped her see the outside world He helped Amarant in ipsel castle and made him understand what it is to be a friend But now Zidane is the one who is in depression and needs help and his friend’s stood by his side and helped him pull out of his depression That’s what you call true friendship

The moment you earned stieners respect is when you let the man tears out

This moment is one of the reasons why this is not only the best final fantasy game ever but maybe even the best game ever

"Chivalry requires a knight to look after his comrade-in-arms. I will not abandon you!" - Steiner

I think this scene really parallels everyone's life. We're all Zidane at some point.

I cried during this. And I'm not ashamed !!

When I played this as a kid I didn't understand this scene the way I do now.

I'll never forget this song and the moment in FFIX that it accompanied. It was such an incredible moment, both heartbreaking and beautiful to see Zidane try to forsake his friends and handle the burden himself. But after everything he's done for them, they'd never let that happen. It was wild to see one of the most positive main characters in the entire Final Fantasy universe take a turn and really hit rock bottom, only to have his friends save him.

When Freya showed up to help Zidane in battle first...Such a sis moment. It's like since she knows how painful it is to be forgotten, when she sees that Zidane's forgotten himself she understands more than anyone else and jumps into action. She starts ribbing/goading on Zidane like they did to each other as old friends to let him know she remembers exactly who he is and will not let him fade away, and to remind him that remembering and cherishing your friends is mutual. Ultimate sis move.

The thing is that in the real world especially sunny positive Zidane-like people quite often become such to combat and hide some secret pain. In fact they would not become what they are without this pain. They are always strong, because weak people just succumb. Zidane, for example, probably became such positive person, because he had no family and no knowledge about his birthplace. He always wanted to have someone dear to care about and home to live in and this was his hidden tormenting pain that he had to overcome. And so he did. And because of it, sudden shocking break of the last person you would expect like in this scene makes much sense - since he actually already had that pain spot hidden inside through the entire game... and he was hit exactly into this spot.

Still one of the best stories and event sequence in ff games. I get chills everytime one of Zidane's friends appear in battle to help him, that's not what you see in the recent ff games. This scene was excellent and emotional. Best part is that every character gets their own development (even Amarant) and managed to discover their own motivation especially Vivi thanks to Zidane. Now everyone is helping him because he supported their decisions and help them find happiness *But then you realized you don't have Garnet's curaga*

The best scene ever in any video game history. Perfect presentation and awesome music. To bad the song is only played once throughout the whole game.

Hit by an Earth-shattering plasma cannon from a giant dragon: 2716 damage. Poked with a dagger: 2652 damage. Hm...

This scene makes me cry. Every time. I’ve had so many problems all throughout my life and hated myself for it, and i felt like it was nobody’s problem but my own and that nobody TRULY cared. I’m still that way to some extent

This is my favourite scene in any video game. It pulls all the character development for Zidane straight through perfectly. Also the music was so moving and spot on for the scene. Brings back the nostalgia watching this xD

Easily one of the best moments in the entire series, not just this game.

“Chivalry requires a knight to look after his comrades-in-arms. I will not abandon you!”

I'd rather have a ff9 remake than a ff7 remake

This is the best scene shows his depression and I cried during this, he lost himself but the others especially garnet helped him

So much feels when the Curaga came in.

This theme and game are highly underrated.

Great song, Great part in FF9, where everyone attempts to comfort him. YOUR NOT ALONE ZIDANE

My childhood was epic!!! :D

This scene taught me that as much as I dislike it, people can't live alone. Sometimes you feel like you can or should do things your own way, because you don't want to be a burden to others, or you think they won't understand what you feel, and maybe you can be right, but there are things you can only do with the support of others. There are good and understanding people out there still. And if you were blessed with a loving family and friends, never ever let them go.

I'm not crying, you're crying...!

I love how you ended the video just before the depressing music starts playing again. Thank you.

Easily one of the best if not the best scene in the entire final fantasy games..... If this didn't bring tears to your eyes your first playthrough then there is just something wrong with you

7:31 I LOVE how the screen swirls while the guitar kicks in. Absolutely badass...

This will always be my favorite moment in the game and one of my favorites in the entire franchise. When I first played this game, I actually thought it was mostly cheery with some good moments here and there but I was never fully interested. Then I saw this and I had tears all over the place. Granted I dont cry here anymore but the "Youre Not Alone" sequence will always hold a special place in my heart.

For some reason, Freya has always been my favorite final fantasy character in general.

What an incredibly powerful moment in the game, only completed it last Summer really enjoyed it but this is my favourite part.

This is the best song from FF9

Zidane calling himself a bastard is easily the most memorable part of the game for me, this scene is so powerful, I love FF9 characters and story

I used to be such a fool back in the day... i always took things the bad way and try to stand up all by myself. But watching this always help me, to understand that somethings cannot be acomplish by will alone... you need something else... also if you lose all of that will... you need some support. I know it's really hard sometimes, to find meaning in life... we but we've to try because we're here and now... crying, suffering... living... Thank you Nomura, Uematsu and company... for this lesson.

"Chivalry requires a Knight to look after his comrades-in-arms. I will not abandon you! And I shall follow you to Kingdom come if I must. You remember that!" This whole part was among one of the greatest moments that I have ever seen in gaming, period. But for the whole game Steiner has often been outright hostile, at best highly suspicious, of Zidane. It's not easy for one so loyal to his post and his duty to openly accept someone with Zidane's lifestyle. He's a thief. A vagabond. But.... Steiner has slowly opened up to him. He can't ever say directly that Zidane is his friend, but his statement above speaks volumes. He DOES see Zidane that way, even if he can't easily admit it. I never understood as a kid but playing it again a few years ago I was moved by that admittance. Steiner became my favorite, and to this day remains so, among an entire game full of amazingly written characters.

This moment is just epic. One of the best games ever. Wow. So emotional.

I always cry in this moment....Final Fantasy IX is the best Final Fantasy and best game ever

My first Final Fantasy.. And the best I've played. It was with my brother when I was a child, so nostalgia + that kind of scene is making me cry so much that I'm gonna die of it!

I thought unlocking the Hildagarde with the freedom the flying ost expressed combined with Garnet smiling in her new portrait was the highest point in this game. Then this part happened and Zidane finally got his arc moment. All of the emotion released surpassed what I thought possible in an already emotional game

@Wolferenful The problem with commentating is it makes it hard to hear the games music. I'm pretty big on game music, so I don't like to drown it out with commentary, I think it can ruin an epic experience in some games.

Is this how you want to deal with the problem?

I just played this part of the game today. This scene made FF9 to be one of my favorite games of all time. It just felt so real, from Zidane's questioning of self worth and his friends trying to help him out. It made me feel emotions that I never felt before from a videogame. What a great game and scene!

When the music gets loud I seriously get chills and almost start to cry at the beauty of this

THIS. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.

Screw 7 remake 9

you don't need a reason to help people........ Will always go down as one of my favourite FF quotes of all time

Goddammit, not only one of the best scenes in the whole Final Fantasy franchises, but THE most powerful scene in any RPG I've experienced yet, and I've already experienced a LOT in 30 years of gaming! Only Lufia II and it's ending come similiar close in terms of heavily playing on the emotion strings!

The fact that I'm not the only one that appreciated this moment for what it was means so much to me! Young as I was, it really hit (2005). Man!

This entire sequence is straight up masterful. The music, dialogue, and the battles are all perfect. They just don't make games like they used to.

"You don't need a reason to help people." Wow it just clicked how that applies to this scene.

Is anyone else a complete idiot who never uses elixirs or eithers despite knowing when the game ends. I hold on to them like I'm prepping for an apocalypse.

This actually has such a beautiful story. I remember when I was a kid I was only interested in the damage and battle mechanics. But after years I come to see it's themes. The love between garnet and zidane, friendship.

this is the imapct games lack nowadays ....a story whit such emotions that you feel it such good music that makes your hair stand out ..soo sad that soo many people dont know this game

If you name every party member Kuja, the game is very strange. Especially whenever someone lists all of them.

"But trust me, I know that I'm the worst bastard here."

Greatest scene in video game history.

Beautiful part and wonderful music! You're not alone!!

When I think about it now, FFIX taught me a very important lesson at a really young age (12 or 13). I was never alone. Despite how helpless or lonely you feel at times, you are never alone. I have carried that with me now at age 30. For a video game to have impacted me like that says how incredibly powerful this moment was.

My therapist asked me to describe how I felt after several car accidents this year, and how it affected my self worth, and I shared this video with him

When I was a kid, I cried without knowing why. I played this again 10 years later and the feeling is still there. That's how strong this is.

I play a lot of time ff9 for this moment

Vivi dealt with this much better than the main character did, he has a very strong scene after the black mages all learn their lives cant be extended and says what more can i do but sit with them? it speaks so highly of the character hes accepted it and hes not afraid anymore its beautiful.

Steiner finnally accepting Zidane and even considering him to be Dagger's man is the best moment, very unpredictable. And Quina's speeches are always the same even in serious situations, hilarious.

I love how this is the moment, where you can clearly see how much steiner has changed. I know, after they save dagger from the queen, and beatrix helpes them that he changed. But what he says right here is just Epic.

Sometimes I feel like how Zidane does in this scene but in the end I’m not alone

Would have been a really nice touch if Dagger's "Trance" moment was here, just to exemplify how much Zidane really meant to him... Ah, what could have been. Still was a great section of the game.

One of my favorite moments in this game ^^

When Garnet showed up i could not hold my tears back anymore

I think they tried to somewhat recreate this scene in X when Yuna goes through the dungeon near the end of the game on her own and everyone eventually joins in. It didn't even come close to this timeless masterpiece

I called this memory lane because Zidane was getting hix memories back

That soundtrack! Literally made the game!

I’m so glad I’ve found this moment in the game on RU-vid.

Amarant's speech at 4:12 was GOLD. I might play this game again real soon :)

steiner's lines are powerful for his character arc here. he hates zidane the entire game. and yet, "i will not abandon you"

In all realness, this is one of the games that created me. I even still use " it's in my nature" at 30 years old

This part of the game it's so epic. The first time I played this part I almost died in every battle, so it was really emotional when the others came out and helped you, plus, Zidane is the positive, funny and energic guy, so seeing him like that was so sad. And the music!!...Just love this game :')

I played this for the first time when i was 12. 16 years later, I still come back here every once in a while to remind myself not to surround myself with myself.

Something about this is like super relatable. But... Idk why. It just is. First time i seen this scene in FF9 i almost cried because how emotional and relatable it is. Which has NEVER HAPPENED! so to me that says a lot! FF9 will always be close to my heart. Even though it's a game it taught me a lot. It's not just another vide game. It's realistic. It's believable. It's relatable. Its... Art. Perfection. The one true final fantasy. What final fantasy truly is! It'll always be my favorite final fantasy. For endless reasons! Long live the one true final fantasy! 😍😍

This part was very beautiful and emotional. True friendship. Tears from eyes.

When Garnet came in to save the day, Bahamut should have destroyed this guy. That is my only critiscm.

I'm not crying, it's the invisible onion-cutting Ninja!

He temporarily turned into cloud.

THIS! is one of the best moments in videogame history. READ THIS! If you don't know this moment/game, PLAY IT!

Oh mi dios ! empiezo a pensar que Uematsu hizo esta saga lo que es ._. Osea por dios !como sabe transmitir tan bien los sentimientos que se atravieza en esos momentos con su musica y sin haber ningun tipo de voz T,T admirable!

I’m not gonna lie this song warms my heart this was the first ps1 game my pops ever got me thanks dad ❤

It's a scene like this truly appreciates friendship. I'm definitely blessed to have the friends I have, most of which are from childhood.

Man those were some tough and cool looking enemies. Especially the nightmare horse. What I liked most of all about this track is that it continued to play even during enemy encounter. Thanks for the upload and also for the awesome image of Bahamut :D

This makes me start to wonder how Kuja feels. I know he's a Genome with a soul, but I wonder if he thinks in a way kinda simelar to this

This song only happens once in the game for not that long and yet marked so many gamers forever also inspired tons of remixes, this is a proof of near-perfection scene

He not depressed. He’s really good at taking care of others, but never learned to take care of himself - or what taking care of yourself means. He lifted his friends up, and when it was his turn they were there for him. That’s how you take care of yourself, by making a family no matter how non traditional. I’m watching this to cry.

Wa this scene brings back memories , i dont even remember how many times i've played FFIX (and still play at least 1 time per year :D), best game ever !!!

zidane: *appears musicians: *play epic sad music 10minute later.. zidane: *has recovered from depression musicians: what do we do now?

God the music for this moment has stuck with me for years. one of the top 10 Final Fantasy moments ever!

Best Main FF character

...And i shall follow you to kingdom come if i must. You remember that. I always cry when steiners says this. He goes from hating you to being insanely loyal to you.

Loved every single moment of FFIX. Still, my favourite. The one and only in my hearh. You know.... im an empty vessel without it...

This moment right here may have changed me as a person. To this day I look back at this and tear up. I hate corny/cheesy emotional scenes in general and even though you really can't describe this scene without making it sound kinda corny, it's still so powerful and 20 years later still resonates with me. My kids are now getting old enough to understand some of the themes in this game and I can not wait for them to get to this spot and experience this for themselves.

I can understand Zidane. Sometimes you just want to be alone and you hurt people who love you trying to do that. They don't deserve it from you, but you do it anyway. You think that by not troubling them or being in their life because you feel terrible you're doing them a favor, but really, you're just indulging your own fears. But you always know who the worst bastard is. Final Fantasy writing used to be so human.

If a chick that saves u from death then summons a legendary beast who can blow up a planet doesnt save u from depression then god help us all

For me it is the best Final Fantasy game EVER. Everything about it is great. Story, characters, mechanics… everyhing. I want specifically mention the main character - Zidane. It is SO RARE for a Final Fantasy game to have a mature charismatic easy-going main character without psychological problems, who is also a natural leader. SO SO good guy. The only other similar person I can recall is Balthier, although he is not exactly the main character (and Tidus is not mature enough). I also like Garnet/Dagger as a main female character, although sometimes she is too reserved, but at least it looks natural for her age and position and doesn't prevent her from being attractive. And she really went through A LOT - lost her real parents and people, her adopted kingdom, her voice, betrayed and almost killed by her own "mother", lost her love in the end (or at least she thought so) and she still managed to endure through everything to the happy end. I wonder if there is another FF female character who went through so much pain. And there are so many other great characters - Beatrix (WOW!!!), Garland, Kuja, Eiko (another WOW!!!), Vivi, Tantalus guys... thinking about it, I can't even name an FF9 character I don't like. I like how Kuja's story ends. Zidane's despair scene (and music) is one of the best in the gaming history. There is so much depth and character development in plot lines for Vivi, Garnet, Amarant, Eiko, Steiner, Freya. Every character was changed by the end of the story. EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER in the game. There is a minor issue with the final boss, who is kind of appears from nowhere not driven by a plot, but this is so minor compared to all the great stuff this game has to offer. This is one of the best games ever created.