The battle system is boring until you can unlock the different paths on the sphere grid. If they had allowed you to advance more quickly it would've been a much more interesting game because there would've been a lot more strategy in planning how your characters worked. However, apart from that it's one of the better battle systems in the FF series.

However, the story and characters are somewhat subpar for the series in my opinion. While I can't entirely oppose any story that suggests people should question authority (especially religious authority), it was kind of lackluster. The characters probably would've been a lot better if some of the voice actors hadn't been so bland, but alas. Thanks to the voice acting Tidus basically came out as whine-whine-whine and that kind of ruined a lot of the enjoyment I would've otherwise had of this game.