Final Fantasy IX: I'm ready to accept my platinum now

Just thought I'd talk a little bit about my favorite video game of all time!

My latest save file. The fastest and safest way to level up that I have found is in memoria, the final dungeon. Look for a bridge with a waterfall and a save orb on the bridge. If you back track one area you will encounter this guy, the Chimera:

This guy will pick on whomever lands a blow to him, and he can be very nasty if you are not prepared. He starts with venom breath, which poisons and stops your character, essentially leaving them a sitting duck with slowly draining health, and then he'll freeze you, a temporary status effect which leaves the target vulnerable to any physical attack, shattering (KOing) them. The next attack is what you want, virus crunch. This puts virus on the target. Have three characters infected with this status and move back to the bridge.

I suggest moving forward one screen past the bridge for level 40 to 80 characters. Once past 80 its safer to hang around the save orb. In this next "false" underwater room, you will find two enemies.

Iron Man

Stilva

Iron man will cast protect to lessen the damage your people can inflict, and cast might raising his attack power which can be dangerous as with a high attack power hes also able to use a move called "cleave" hitting everyone. Other than that he shouldn't be much trouble. For Stilvas you want antibody ability equipped because he will venom strike you, and watch for Firaga as his magic is very powerful. These two should be easy to take out in two rounds, and eventually one with three power hitters. Now the virus effect on the three characters will not let them have exp or ap but all the total exp goes to the fourth you left untouched, so you are gaining 42,000 exp a battle, and with the level up ability equipped, even more. Once your party is strong and you want to earn a tiny bit more and be closer to the save point, move back to the bridge you will meet a familiar creature to the FF series, the Behemoth!

Behemoth

This guy packs quite a punch just with his slashes and charges, but what makes him very dangerous is his reaction to physical attacks: Meteor Counter

He will often counter your attacks with the black magic spell meteor which can do lethal damage (4000 - 5000 hp) even to lv 99 characters. Best way to deal with this is to have your attacks with counter and eye4eye abilities equipped. Let him strike one and your characters will counter attack. With high level attackers using mp attack ability and their strongest weapons, the damage should be 8000 to 9999 in damage. You can kill the behemoth with one round (three hits).

Also in the false underwater area past the bridge you may encounter a voice telling you to leave. Obey if you aren't at a high level because this would be Hades, and hes quite tough. Protect yourself from confusion and poison and I find a good group would be two strong attackers, vivi's black magic and a healer to be safe. Equip auto reflect on one character and have vivis unique ability reflectx2 equipped and bounce flare off the reflected character to deal 9999 damage with him.

I suggest every Fan of  turn based rpgs play this game, especially if you enjoy old school Final Fantasy because after the mediocre FF7 and even worse, FF8, 9 returns to the roots of and what made FF great returns once again!