Why Do you Like FFX?

[Savannah]

The lack of a map seems to be one of the main issues with the game. But there IS a world map and you CAN explore Spira in its entirety, at least before the game is over.

Most FFs seem to have that period just before the end where you can explore as you wish; I'm not sure why not having this option during the whole FFX game, when you have a task to do anyway, brings the game down for some people. Usually, in FF7, when I visited places not on the itinerary, they were closed or blocked off somehow anyway (ex., Red XIII's home was one of my favorite places to go, but until the point in the game where the characters had to use the telescope thing, it was blocked off; and after I was done, there wasn't much point to going back anyway). And I got lost way too much on FFVI's world map, which led to running into way too many random battles.

I don't know about you guys, but I would have gladly traded in the FF7 and FF8 world maps to get rid of some of the characters in those games.