Yes I liked choco breeding. Infuriating sometimes I admit but It was fun finally getting the gold.

Im agreeing with cloudane, every map was the same old same old it never really excited me, oh god Giza plains was the worst, there was no feel or atmosphere, no in past FF games like in X every object and the scenery was unique, every waterfall and ruin had its own vibe to it.

I felt like this as a test the water game, the developers thought "hmm lets try a open battle system when you aren't constantly breaking out of the environment"

They focused solely on that to see if the fans would like the new change to the game. And then left everything else to the last minute. Thats what I felt.