{"id":8816,"date":"2016-04-21T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2016-04-19T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:14:59","slug":"final-fantasy-ix-steam-port-breaks-the-grind-with-game-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/final-fantasy-ix-steam-port-breaks-the-grind-with-game-boosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy IX Steam Port breaks the grind with &#8216;game boosters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy 9 got its\u00a0own release on Steam this week. It features updated character models (but not updated backgrounds it seems), updated cutscenes, steam achievements, as well as the unexpected &#8216;game boosters.&#8217;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4oDeSJI0qJc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These boosters (read: cheat codes) include 7 options that allows you to cut down on combat time and get the player more easily involved in the story. The two advertised boosters are &#8216;high speed mode&#8217; and &#8216;no encounter mode.&#8217; Clearly these are intended for people who want to relive the story or experience the game for the first time without any long boss fights and time consuming random encounters.<\/p>\n<p>Final Fantasy IX is a fairly linear game, so it&#8217;s understandable that players may opt to skip on the random encounters if the game doesn&#8217;t focus on the exploration facet of the J-RPG formula. Players seem pretty evenly divided on the idea, but it&#8217;s important to remember that these features are completely optional. One can experience the game exactly as it was meant to played in it&#8217;s original form.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the game here on <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/377840\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy 9 got its\u00a0own release on Steam this week. It features updated character models (but not updated backgrounds it seems), updated cutscenes, steam achievements, as well as the unexpected &#8216;game boosters.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":8819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[5226,5227,322,777,310,175,2778,5230,5225,2165,5228,1204,1124,2497,4917,5229],"class_list":["post-8816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-5226","tag-boosters","tag-ff9","tag-ffix","tag-final-fantasy","tag-game","tag-gaming","tag-hd","tag-ix","tag-pc","tag-port","tag-rpg","tag-square","tag-square-enix","tag-steam","tag-zidane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/final-fantasy-ix-cover.jpg?fit=1080%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8822,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions\/8822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}