FF VIII and IX too similar?

[GypsyElder]

He does have a point. When I played IX, it made me wanna play VII from the beginning again. The story was very much similar seeing that Kuja acted very much like Sephiroth. Resembled him a bit too. Zadane and Cloud were very much different though, everyone pretty much knows why. But, didn't IX take place in a time prior to VIIs? The map was laid out the same and for petesake, I think they both had Ozma to fight.

both did not have Ozma, nor were the world maps similar. FFIX has nothing to do with VII, they're completely different stories. Zidaine and Cloud were not alike in any way, not in personality or appearance. Sephirpth and Kuja are not similar just because the both have long silver hair -_- and equal graphics? not quite.