Trance is rather poorly implemented. The fact that it activates automatically is its downfall. No way I'm the only one who had a character go into Trance in the middle of a random battle, and then have the next person kill the enemy, making it a total waste.

"Dagger" is probably the worst character name in the whole series. I just called her "Garnet". It really doesn't make things awkward because they ditch the whole "going undercover" thing entirely, and quite early on IIRC.

The disc 4 world map theme is undeniably a nice track, but it's the same problem as VII and VI; the first theme is just better.

And finally... there's way too much missable stuff.

Still a brilliant game in spite of all those nitpicks.