This. That was an amazing year for RPGs in general, but I remember the anticipation for IX being somewhat tempered by the kinda-disappointing FFVIII, the amazing Chrono Cross (released earlier that year) and the release of the PS2 (also earlier that year). By the time it came out expectations were ever-so-slightly…

100% agree with this. I remember popping this in about six or seven years back when it got released as part of Warners' fourth Film Noir Collection DVD set thinking most of the great noirs had been exhausted on DVD by that point and being completely blown away. Cathy O'Donnell is simply luminous in this. Amazingly…