While I agree that more time spent developing the characters and story would have been good, as far as I'm concerned if they never write about the troubled crappy past of the main characters ever again, it'd be the best thing ever. I've seriously had far too much of the angsty male leads TROUBLED by the big evil villain who used to be their hero and then they found out the truth about them and BROKE THEIR WORLD. And VII is my favourite in the series, too.

We need more GALUF and BALTHIER'S, damnit.