With the exception of the point about random battles... ah, who the hell am I kidding? I totally agree with all of that. Though I gotta admit I loved the music in Rabanastre and will never forget it. Probably because I didn't hear all the game's soundtrack, I gave up half way through the game.

The overall plotline was a case of tl;dr, in that I paid no attention to it because it was so smeggin' dull.

What a lot of people don't realise about the new battle system is that, aside from the monsters not being random, it was just FFX-2's system with free movement: Everything still happened on an ATB gauge but actions could happen simultaneously. So few people realised this, and I'll bet loads of the people who pan this battle system admit to liking the one in X-2. However, running around and then having to stand still for a bit while you wait for your party to eventually take a swipe at an enemy really did get old after a while.

Unfortunately I will probably never complete this game and see the ending, but does it matter? I won't understand the ending anyway.