It's my third favourite Final Fantasy.
I think it's a very well crafted game that descends into slight nonsense towards the end, but is still incredible amounts of fun. I liked the cast. I liked the setting. I LOVED the soundtrack.
I think these days it gets a fair bit of hipster love because of the backlash towards VII/VIII, in that people over-rate it because it was under-rated at the time.
A very good game, though.