FFIX's greatness is, as I've said, overshadowed by FFVII and FFVIII because these are where people think Final Fantasy should always be from now on, it should always be futuristic, you should always have moves that break the battle system, main characters need to have unrealistically big swords, females need to show 80% of their skin(not that a little skin is bad, I'm a straight dude and all, but if your female characters are that sexy and beautiful all the time they shouldn't have to try so hard all the time), females need to get the attention of males (instead of the other way like ZidaneXDagger, and the real world). Yeah, I'm gonna get "quit applying real life", I don't apply real life with summoning, magic, etc. but relationships are a real world trait and should be treated as such.