Does Yoshi P Hate FF9?

[DarkMasamune]

If you're going that way, then Yoshi P must hate FFX since we only got Yojimbo and a few music notes in Stormblood that reminds me of it (althought I might have forgotten some things).

I agree with everyone else ; I actually feel like there are a lot of FFIX plot elements, callbacks and nods here and there. I was impressed with Solution Nine having a tons of little winks to the monsters, the trial was great, the music in both the dungeon and the trial were awesome.
Speaking of music, you got a tons of remixes from FFIX ; the Court Jesters is remixed for The Strayborough Deadwalk dungeon, the Tantalus' Theme is slow remixed for the hud in Solution Nine...

I actually believe they did a great job regarding FFIX.

[Cleretic]

If you're going that way, then Yoshi P must hate FFX since we only got Yojimbo and a few music notes in Stormblood that reminds me of it (althought I might have forgotten some things).

Off the top of my head you're missing Anima, Ixion, the Yuna outfit, and hrothgar being called the ronso on the First. There's also stuff like XIV's Bismarck fight having inspirations from the Sin fight, and Amaurot in Shadowbringers evoking Zanarkand in FFX, but at that point we're stretching to a point that the OP clearly doesn't really like or count.

In all honesty, it is kinda weird how little we've gotten from FFX in the 'shallow reference' fare, although I highly doubt it's a matter of any developer's personal tastes. I think it's just that FFX is kind of hard for XIV to reference because it's largely playing in a very different aesthetic space. You've actually gotta put in some serious work to make an FFX thing fit in to the FFXIV world, which makes it harder to do something like 'here's Evrae, please clap'.

Meanwhile XIII onwards are also pretty thin on the ground, but I think that's a different problem; XIV is already sharing enemy models and other assets with them, so it'd actually be too easy to do a shallow reference, it'd feel like laziness instead of fanservice.

[DarkMasamune]

Off the top of my head you're missing Anima, Ixion, the Yuna outfit, and hrothgar being called the ronso on the First. There's also stuff like XIV's Bismarck fight having inspirations from the Sin fight, and Amaurot in Shadowbringers evoking Zanarkand in FFX, but at that point we're stretching to a point that the OP clearly doesn't really like or count.

Oh you're right, wow, perhaps I should'nt post when I just woke up hahaha.