Final Fantasy 9 (IX) is a RPG developed and published by Square for the PlayStation in 2000. During the development, the design for the characters was different from the one in the final version, as you can notice from the images in the gallery below. As we can read on Wikipedia, the game was developed in Hawaii as a compromise to developers living in the United States.
In the game’s conceptual stage, the developers made it clear that the title would not necessarily be Final Fantasy IX, as its break from the realism of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII may have alienated audiences. This led fans to speculate that it would be released as a “gaiden” to the main series. By late 1999, however, Square had confirmed that the game would indeed be published as Final Fantasy IX, and by early 2000, the game was nearly finished.
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These pictures, compared to the actual game, can be described as being more Disney-styled, anime-styled or “american” anime-styled. Though no picture seems to be all three, pretty much all of them are one of the three.
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/11/23/sakaguchi_ffix_vault/
I’m guessing someone will translate the source soon enough, but if not I’ll ask GlitterBerri about it.
Thanks for the link Robert! Hope to read a translation soon :)
There’s now an official translation (though it could have done with a proofread; some of the grammar is off): http://www.mistwalkercorp.com/en/column/index.html
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/11/28/sakaguchi-notes-about-final-fantasy-ixs-opening-highlight-cuts-and-differences/ summarises the changes.
Thanks for the update Robert! :)