FFIX is underrated in many other ways too. Look at all the FF concerts and Black Mages albums, they mostly have songs from FFVI and FFVIII played there, even though FFIX had the best soundtrack in the series, IMHO. The staff working on FFIX is mentioned pretty much nowhere, but the one working on FFVII, FFVIII and FFX is mentioned in so many places. It's weird since I don't think the "Sakaguchi generation" did that much worse than the "Nomura generation". Sure, Sakaguchi generation had FFII and FF: TSW, but mostly they made good titles (FF1, FF3-6, FF9) whereas Nomura generation is a lot more unstable, IMHO (they did FFVII, AC and KH games, but they also did FFVIII, FFX, FFX-2 and DoC).