Yeah, I liked the character developement and the cutscenes and the shear mass amount of them. I especially liked Lightning, who I don't think resembled Cloud in anyway. I like Cloud too, but I still cannot see the resemblence between those two, sorry.

I liked the linearity.

I have issues with the battle system. There are lots of little things I don't like about it, but over-all it functions. (I would have loved if the manual option was actually manual.)

I also am wavering about the random battles. I like that I can see what's coming, but, I am not a fan of random battles period. Random battles annoy me in general. I understand they're necessary, but still... they annoy me.

I like the Crystarium. Since I'm not a huge grinder (usually) the cap doesn't effect me.

I also liked XII, for whole different set of reasons.

So maybe I'm just easy to please, but there wasn't anything that would make me stop playing. (Not yet anyway. I haven't gotten to the end game yet.)