Just a guess here, but since the moment you first came in contact with another human being?(SPOILER)I wasn't being serious Mirage.
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Elly, there were several references to FFVI, VII, and VIII.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by, "they super deformed them," but if you mean they didn't attempt to make them realist/human-like as in FFVIII, I understand the critique (them being comical, cartoony) even though at that stage, during the PS1 era, hyper-realism was so far from possible, deforming them allows for much prettier characters. FFVIII characters were just ugly.
I enjoyed the FFIX cast, but it's perfectly understandable that others wouldn't equally enjoy them. Especially Zidane with his monkey tail.
I'm genuinely sorry you're not able to enjoy High Fantasy, Elly. Genuinely.
At least you had Phantasy Star, though. PSIV is one of my favorite RPGs from any generation. But I enjoyed both series because of the differences between them. That's not to say I'm better than people who couldn't enjoy them both. I'm fortunate that I could enjoy both. Enjoying more things = more enjoyment.
Another criticism of the game:
It wasn't that I felt cheated or anything when I was playing, but the majority of FFIX's cities fell flat, felt kind of bored and umm, meatless or listless.