
His womanizing aspect was designed by Hiroyuki Ito. He was conceived and written by Hironobu Sakaguchi, while his appearance was designed by Yoshitaka Amano and re-interpreted by Toshiyuki Itahana. He was one of the original three characters revealed, along with Vivi and Steiner. Both Zidane and Vivi's size and age were less than that of the characters from the above-mentioned other titles. Zidane, along with other characters, was designed after the creation of the game's plot, unlike its predecessors, VII and VIII, which had its protagonists created before the story. Zidane Tribal ( ジタン・トライバル, Jitan Toraibaru, / z ɪ ˈ d ɑː n/) is the main protagonist of Final Fantasy IX. The in-game version of each character was completed by Toshiyuki Itahana, Shunkou Murase and Shin Nagasawa. Original concepts and designs were created by Yoshitaka Amano. Zidane was one of the original three characters revealed, along with Vivi and Steiner. The characters were designed after the creation of Final Fantasy IX 's plot, unlike its predecessors, VII and VIII, which had its protagonists created before the story. Each character in Final Fantasy IX has his/her own unique ability these include summoning, black magic, white magic, blue magic and techniques such as "Jump". The series has used the same menu operated battle system in most of the games with a few minor adjustments. The main characters were based on the character class archetypes from previous Final Fantasy games (for instance, Zidane is based on the Thief class while Steiner was based on the Fighter class). Players could control a maximum of four characters for combat at once, with eight main playable characters in the party and a few other, temporary characters.

Final Fantasy IX, a PlayStation role-playing game consisting of four CD-ROMs, featured a cast containing a variety of major and minor characters.
