Actually I also don't like FF9 that much.
Characters design: is horrible! Soory but who is going to remember to create a character with a tail and a horrible name that reminds me a football player that I hate (Zidane);
Vivi: A character with no head (that is disgusting) and with two big yellow eyes (that is scary), I mean how/where does the eyes hold?
Garnet would be the only normal character and in fact she is!
Quina: My tv is big and I bet that she doesn't fit in it!
Steiner: A bunch of tin that never gets rusty and his eyes looks like cartoon!
Queen smth: Simply horrible, the first time that I saw her i scared myself!
Kuja: Is it a girl or a boy?
Game:
Gaphics - They are ok
Battles - Ok too...
FMV - Very good if it wasn't the fact of the characters design be so horrible!