As for Necron's appearance, it's essentially an eidolon. The crystals have the ability to take the memories and emotions of people and fashion them into actually creatures. As the fear of death is perhaps one of the most common emotions conscious living beings face and many never resolve that fear, it makes sense the crystal would fashion a being that essentially that emotion brought to life. Also why he states he is eternal, the fear of death will never go away.
When the Iifa tree was "killed", Garland mentioned that the party only saw the front of it, and that the cycle of souls had not yet been released. The party dies to Kuja's ultima and encounter the other side of the Iifa tree, the one preventing souls from returning to Gaia: Necron.
Awesome, in the begging you can hear the anguished wails of those who've died sensless deaths and are caught in an eternal twisting limbo, weeping that they are consigned forever to oblivion!! I like this!
@@budakbaongsiahIt sounds so logical to people like us. Remember there is a gaming world today where story and meaning, means nothing to the groups making the stories come to life. ... Enter.... Zero world...
@ShaneC1991 Actually, Necron is not supposed to be, but to represent something. FFIX deals with death. About the relation you come to have with the idea of death during your life and how you come to accept it by finding a way of living. Thus, the final battle is the battle that inevitably come from such a reflexion. Necron is Death, and you fight it to stay alive.
He Wants to destroy the world ( ff 1,2,3,4,5,7,8) And he comes out of, well "nowhere" (ff 3) He is not the main villian (ff 3,4) Wants to bring the universe to the void ( ff 3, 5 ) ... Final Fantasy 9 is a Nostalgic piece of ART :)
Now THAT is epic! I love how it turns out scary first, then it makes your heart jump! It feels like you are ready to face the ultimate final battle with this epic music.=3
Not really in FFIV you do know about Zeromus, Zemus *IS* Zeromus he is the true form of Zemus and your told that by Fusoya long before you go to the Lunar Subterranean. Necron was a lil un expected but then again It wasn't......they did speak of something that guards the Crystal and we all knew that wasn't Kuja since he was trying to destroy it. Also if Kuja was the last boss I would be pissed since he was extremely easy x.x
I always interpreted it as Necron was the God of Non-space. Once the Crystal of Origins was destroyed by Kuja's final Ultima, it was called forth to erase all existance.
Necron is not personified "nonexistence", he is some kind of a god. He said existence was his little project and after Kuja messed up he thought that all life thinks like him, so it is better to end their suffering. He does not try to force absolut nonexistence like CoD, rather than doing humans a favour. After Zidane and the other fight him to show that they cling on life, he isn't beaten, he just says: "kk, go on living kiddos. But be warned, I'm watching you."
I thought Necron was described as one of the original creators who helped piece together life. Then he notices that everyone just keeps killing each other, finding reasons to kill those they don't know, and then one quite literally pulls the largest fuckup ever and destroys on of the Crystals. He basically tries to Etch-a-Sketch reality, yet then after toying with the party for a bit he realizes that folk -really- still want to live and allows them for the time being.
Necron was the core mechanism of the Iifa Tree. The physical tree distributing mist was its material half, but remember that its purpose was to stop Gaia's cycle of souls. The cycle was not restored when the physical Iifa Tree was "killed," yet after Necron's defeat the entire tree went into violent spasms and died. Ultima put the party into a near-death state, where their souls encountered the ethereal half of Iifa. Defeating it stopped Terra's assimilation of Gaia and freed the souls.
Very good explanation, but although first time i played FF9 in grade 8 (bare in mind i didn't even play FF3 at that point), i had no strategy guide or no internet at the time, necron was a pretty random last boss if you wernt aware you had to fight him, like you spend the whole game chasing kuja and finally kick his ass in the crystal world then all of a sudden your on the hill of despair with necron, took me forever to even create my own conspiracy on were he even came from.
@FandeJay Actually.. Kuja didn't kill them.. when he went to destroy the crystal, he summoned Necron, who was created to end life when it became proved pointless. (When living creatures would seek to end life itself and take it too far) Infact, Necron isn't defeated by Zidane. From what I've heard, he's defeated by Kuja after he teleports Zidane and them out of the area. it's also assumable that this has happened before from his lines.
@krat0s9001 That's pretty much what I just said. >.> "when he went to destroy the crystal, he summoned Necron, who was created to end life when it became proved pointless"
Necron is Death. FFIX's main theme is the fear of death. At the end of the game, Kuja kills the entire party, but, as Zidane says, they can't die, not after everything they went through together. So they lead the ultimate fight : the fight to live, the fight versus Death itself.
Necron is basically like Zeromus. He's the annoying FF final boss that comes out of nowhere. Check out July's issue of Game Informer for some amusing insights on this irritating RPG gimmick.
@Anathema1984 Not really "out of nowhere." As FF9 was a throwback to games 1-8, the concept of Necron was analogous to the Cloud of Darkness from FF3. I realized Square didn't bother explaining Necron because the concept of it was the same as in FF3. The point being, that Kuja fucked up the balance of light and dark (dark being mist, I guess) so much that "nothingness" (personified as Necron) tried to bring the world back to the "void"
Necron was more the true manefestation of the lifa tree, it knew of garland, and wished to rebel from its programmed task to reap the souls of gaia and replace them with terra's own, instead choosing to just destroy all life, after watching the chaotic nature of the population on Gaia and kuja's actions. theres supporting evidence through the conversations Garland, Kuja and the others have at different points in the game. Plus the soulcage aspect of the lifa tree confirms it. what a dick though
@Haeresiarchonte I'm not sure it was lack of imagination; more like they took all the best elements from the first 8 games and made one big homage to the series up till that point in time. FF9 may not be the best in the series, but it is the last truly great fantastic in the series. 10 was alright (I repeat: just alright), but it's been going downhill ever since Hironobu Sakaguchi left the fold.
@mirrorpiece lol, you sucked at seven then, I was talking about 'Safer' Sephiroth (Side note: 'Safer' is a mistranslation of 'Seraph'), people rail on about how hard that fight was, to be honest, I failed to find any challenge in it, spam Wall and Ultima as well as limit breaks and it's impossible to loose.
@McDonaldWilliamT Oh man, people still use that Sephiroth sword fight as excuse 7's final boss wasn't a challenge? That freaking fight was only there to be all cinematic. Everyone knows Safer Sephiroth was the true final boss of 7 and i found him the hardest final boss of every final fantasy i have played. I have yet to play II and V from the first 10 though.
Ok, away from the Necron is Death (it is) stuff, the things that bugged me about this song is that the transition from prologue (screaming voices) to the main peice happens with an almost audible "clunk", like a someone just stuck in a totally different song. That and the bloody electric keyboard just loves to try and smother everything, doesn't it?
@MeingroessterFan It's possible that the terms choosen didn't really translate well anyways mate, in the english text it speaks of him as basically being the end of the universe. Regardless, I couldn't confirm that either way simply because I only know about five phrases in German.
@MeingroessterFan lol, Azrael from Reaper Man wasn't a 'planet death' he was the 'omega', the end of reality period, remember what the text in the book said, about the giant clock with only one hand, which only went around once, that was the lifetimer of the whole of reality.
@Shurryy because in the game, final fantasy 9.. after fighting Kuja, you arrive in a location where the end of the world is under way. the moans and cries are the souls of every living creature crying out in despair that they will soon perish. thats when you fight the boss, and end that fate.
@SlyBeast The Extreme (make sure it's live, other versions are horrible), this song right here, One Winged Angel, J-E-N-O-V-A, Force Your Way off the top of my head. There are sure more, but I only look up songs from games I've played.
I just don't think The Black Mages are all that great. I mean, average at best. Don't downvote me - prove me wrong! Really, I'd love it! I want to hear a good mix out of these guys! Maybe I've just been hearing the wrong tracks.
This was such a unexpected boss... after i defeated trance kuja all those years ago... i was painfully slapped in the face with a somewhat more powerful boss after it.... lol necron you bitch!!! XD
true, but the greatest piece of music can only be truely defined by the person listening to it, so it's different for every person :) but I guess that still means my first comment was wrong lol
@krat0s9001 Yeah it is , isnt it. I did some research and it was Alexander who was sealed by the crystals. Necron litteraly just showed up out of nowhere.
@FromAshesReborn ...whao! That would be intriguing (but nonetheless interesting!). That would mean Necron is actually an abstraction brought upon by the collective subconscious.
I'm pretty sure Necron isn't Soulcage. He's another being altogether. He makes that abundantly clear when he states he is the darkness of eternity, and by the fact that he is summoned by Kuja's actions, and general tomfoolery with the crystal. Great boss theme though either way.
@McDonaldWilliamT For the Record, Necron was the Spirit world side of the iafa tree, as mentioned by Garland. Hence why Kuja had to kill you for you to fight him. Its also the reason why the tree spazzes out after you fight him, and why the crew can actually rest easy knowing that the transfer of souls has been at least momentarily, stopped.
@mirrorpiece Well let me put it this way, who bloody cares? Nine was a good game overall and while Necron was a bit random it was atleast a challenge unlike Sephiroth at the end of Seven, C'mon, you CANNOT lose that fight.
