I like the game a lot, but only for it's battlesystem. It has the best battlesystyem to date, but it lacks in music and story. The story had a good concept, but it was poorly executed. I was really pulled into the story in the beginning, but once you start going on with a full party and start hitting the fields and dungeons then the story lacks because it takes way too long to come to another cutscene or conversation. The lack of random battles is no dissapointment to me, I don't really care if they have them or not as long as they're paced well like in VIII to me it seemed the most well paced and IV seemed very fustrating with the rate of battle screens. Eventhough with the dissapointment to the story and music, the graphics and gameplay help it so much that it's over VII in my book.