Most of the characters in that game look abnormally small. Ex: Zidane looks like he's 12. Everything just looked small. Note I said "childlike for lack of a better word"

Junctioning is not confusing...anymore. I admit it wasn't my favorite but once you get the hang of it, your characters are really good by the time you get to the end of disc 3. The sphere grid was hard to understand also. I still don't get why people don't understand it, though. It gives a good explanation of it when it's first introduced. The ability system in FFIX just seems to boring.