Originally posted by Fallen_angel_666
I like ff9 as i do all of the ff games but the problem with 9 was that with such a cloudy story line

The storyline wasn't cloudy at all. For the first disk, you're trying to find the reasoning behind Brahne's desire to take over the entire Mist continent. In the second disk, you're trying to find out Kuja's involvement in the grand scheme of things. And essentially the third and fourth disks are your quest to stop Kuja. Now, I drastically oversimplified the entire game by that. But there's nothing cloudy during the first two disks at all. Granted, the last two disks deal mainly with the Zidane/Kuja/Terra/Gaia relationship.

And as far as the Terra/Gaia situation goes, I'll grant that the game doesn't give the full details of that particular story arch, but only cause its not essential to the grand scheme of things. You'd understand the Gaia/Terra relationship better if the Online Ultimania site was still up and running which provided pretty much all the details as long as you were willing to translate everything.
Originally posted by Fallen_angel_666
Also there was a lack of suitable xp to get decent xp on the last disc you had to fight the yans yet to really be safe fighting one you had to be around level 60 - I completed the flaming game at level 35 - (another point too easy final bosses 35 is a shameful level especially seeing as unlike ff8 the enemies do not level up as you do)

I've brought up this point before, but the reason you are able to beat FFIX at such low levels is because everything has drastically reduced HP limits compare to previous Final Fantasies. For example, Safer Sephiroth had approximately 150000 HP. Necron had only approximately 52000 HP. Sephiroth has nearly 3 times more HP than Necron does. So as far as FFIX goes, you gain suitable xp for battles compared to HP of the enemies you fight. If you gained more, you would go through the game faster and easier than you may already do.