Final Fantasy 9 is easily the Final Fantasy game that gets the most requests to be remade outside FF7 and perhaps FF8. Fans have wanted it to get the same treatment that Cloud and co. received back in 2020, and, for a time, it felt as if that were possible. Square Enix is not shy of remaking or remastering its library of incredible JRPGs, so it felt like a no-brainer that the studio would eventually get around to remaking at least some of its Final Fantasy games, most important being FF9.
Sadly, it seems as if Final Fantasy 9's official return, which fans had believed would arrive any day, may have been placed on temporary hiatus, if not a permanent one. It is somber news, one that pushes the project further and further away from reality. Fans have seemingly cottoned on to this and begun rallying around one another, reacting to the remake's existence, or lack thereof, and simply trying to piece it all together while supporting one another.
For context, it very much seemed, at one point, that a Final Fantasy 9 remake was in the works. Back in 2021, a disastrous NVIDIA leak...
