I never got to far with covenant, I left school and started work either side of buying it and I fell out with computer games for 5 years. It is on my to do list now though. I totally missed out on legend of dragoon. My first rpg was 2001 ff9 and when I completed that I got a ps2 and ff10. Hopefully it is on PSN. FF13 is an X button masher for sure. I actually played a lot of the battles whilst on the net reading about other things and paying no attention to the games. Ok so yeah even in the old games X was the staple button, but you also had to explore places and find you're way there, not follow the arrow on the mini map that is always on screen. As well as mini games and towns to explore just for the sake of it (especially ff9) My 11 year old nephew I love him for this even prefers the ff7-10 which I got him for his birthday over the recent ones. Have you played Dragon Age, it's a good one for the decision making side of things.