from what i remember (and i know im right) valefor was a girl, but she shouldve been wind, and leviathan should have been in it. ixion should have been replaced by once of the earlier lightning summons. even after u earned ixion, ifrit was still the strongest. ixion just sucks. there was a serious lack of summons.

blitzball needed to be improved, u couldnt go up or down, the timing was horrible, it went too fast. even a card game would have made up for blitzball

attack and hp were a pain in the ass. square should have left it at 9999 as max for both hp and attack.

the fact that you could make everyone the same made the game boring after auron could cast holy for 99,999.

only kimahri could lear enemy skills, and he could only learn 8. in previous ones (VII) you could learn like 30, and everyone could.

need a world map. and need to be able to control the airship.

graphics may have been better, but texture was worse. if u ran in the sand, no foot prints, the same with snow. in ff7 u could see foot prints even out on the world map. (yes im comparing everythin to ff7) you could even see each cell on the sands at bikanel.

the lack of elements was a huge loss. and so was the class system. there were no defined classes except theif, black mage, and white mage. u couldnt tell whether auron was a monk or warrior. what was kimahri?

square could have really done a lot better, im not saying it sucked, but ive seen worse. if they didnt rush to meet the release date, maybe delayed it, it would have been alot better. maybe another ff7 or ff9. im not bashing it, im just stating what needed to be improved, and what was missing and everything.