- It's actually challenging for a change
- You can't get ridiculously overpowered and kill everything in one hit on your first playthrough
- For the most part, a good cast of characters
- It's visually gorgeous
- It has a much better soundtrack than the last few FF games
- The battle system is wonderful and probably the best of the franchise
- The voice acting is better than all the other FF games that have voice acting
- Frocobo
- The story, while nothing we've not experienced before, is far better told than any of the other FF games

It's not perfect but I liked it better than the last three or four Final Fantasy installments.