Why is this hated?

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(Many Spoilers Ahead)

Some reasons why I hate FFIX (And some positive things). Remember, all of these are in my opinion, and even though I have not marked it as "IMO" or "IMHO" I just want you to know ahead of time, before you want to flame that this is just my opinion. It doesn't matter too much, so don't get too worked up about it.

Characters:

Zidane - Just a bit after saving Garnet in the Evil Forest, after the Ice Cavern, when the group arrives to the village of Dali, when everyone is getting on the airship after defeating Black Walts # 2, Zidane.. uhh.. "feels" Garnet's butt. Although many people said it was accidentally, the line "Oooh... Soft..." disgusted me. Next, Zidane was actually weak, compared to all the other main characters in the Final Fantasy series. I know that FFIX was designed to have the enemies have lesser HP, with the characters not doing that much damage, but I wish Grand Lethal did more than just the maximum damage. Although that would have been weird with the amount of HP the Final Boss, Ozma, and the other high HP bosses have, if they had raised their HP, then Zidane would have been stronger. Compare Zidane's Ultimate attack to Cloud's Omnislash, Squall's Lionheart, and Tidus' Blitz Ace. Next thing to say is that Zidane acted very annoying at times. ALthough he actually seemed like quite a great leader, his sudden change in Pandemonia was really akward. It was like Square-Enix was trying to make a crappy character suddenly seem cool. Although, the music in the backround (You're Not Alone) absolutely rocked. Also, it bugged me that Zidane had a tail. Although I knew that all Genomes are supposed to have tails, I would preferred that Zidane had hidden it, or chopped it off or something, kind of like Kuja.

Garnet- She was actually a great character. She was one of the only ones that actually looked normal, and was able to defend herself. Basically, there is nothing wrong with her.

Vivi- He was a deep character, developed at the perfect times, with a great reason to join the group. His story, to me, was actually quite heroic. How he wanted to free the Black Mages, and tell them not to believe Kuja. The scene on the Airship was magnificent as well. One of my favorite Final Fantasy characters.

Freya - From what I think, one of the crappiest chracters ever. She looked like a freaking rat, her story with Sir Fratley was retarded, and barely even told, and her story about leaving Burmecia was not intelligent either. Although, her attitude was alright, I would get annoyed whenever she would say "Oh Sir Fratley, where are you?"

Eiko - An alright character. I liked her backround about being a summoner, and living in Madien Saira. She would act older than her age. A good character.

Quina - I hate this character with a passion. I don't know if she is a boy or a girl, but she is stupid. Her obsession of food was stupid, she would refer to that all the time. Her weapon wasn't original, it was just retarded:

Quina: Me eat you with fork, and learn Blue Magic

Grand Dragon: Oh no, it is Quina with her all powerful Fork!

Amarant: He looks like a rooster. 'Nuff said.

Storyline:

I will admit, the conspiracy with Queen Brahne and the Tantalus group was exciting at first. I enjoyed parts of it, as it was my first Final Fantasy. Everything was going fine, until Oeilvert. It was kind of stupid how Zidane had to comply with Kuja, and go there. Also, the whole Terra thing came out of nowhere. We had not even heard of it before. It could have been slightly explained by Dr.Tot or something. Nextly, adding the Crystal to the plot was stupid as well. If no one had known about it, how could've Kuja known? And what the heck was Memoria anyway? The ending was too happy too. Although FFVIII's was the same, it wasn't as predictable. Because of what happened in FFVIII,like Squall's depression and all, I didn't think he was going to make it. Also, the scene when Squall was hallucinating, and he saw Rinoa as Ultimecia brought up the Rinoa = Ultimecia theory, not exactly making your kind of happy ending. Although, in FFIX, you could tell that Zidane would turn up. I was actually kind of hoping that when Zidane yelled "bring my precious Dagger to me" that someone would chuck a dagger at him, since only the FFIX posse knew her fake name.

Battle System

As said by people in the before thread entitled "FFIX is the worst FF ever!!", the battle system was too simple. You fight an enemy, gain gil, buy new weapon, equip the ability, and repeat. Also, leveling up was simple. Also, people misunderstand FFVIII and VII's Junction and Materia system. In FFVIII, you would first have to learn the junction Attack, Defense, HP etc. abilities before being able to strengthen those. Even after, you would have to find rare draws to strengthen those to the max. In FFIX, you just train for an hour, and you go fight a boss.

I will probably add more things, but for now, these are my reasons. Remember, it is just my opinion, don't mind it too much!