2.

It had some good use of the FMVs early on which I loved (Quistis' intro and the transition from your walking to FMV level) was brilliant I thought. I liked the idea of the junction and magic and GF system, but it was poorly implemented I thought. The story was meh I thought. It was decent early on but once Edea appears it just goes down the crapper. I disliked the characters too, Zell, Selphie, Irvine, and Quistis kind of just were there 'cause, they had very little depth I felt and the game focused on the Squall-Rinoa love story more then it should. I give it props for the use of Garden, making a unique vehicle and the car and train system was nice, but I never made use of it unless I was bored. Over all it didn't feel too FF'ish and seemed more like an attempt to just push a sci-fi RPG.

Though I also hold very high expectations of FF's in general, so that's my main reason for a low score. >.>