Quote Originally Posted by stefan
-the characters, theyre yag. the voice acting contributes highly to this
Both Yuna and Tidus' voices are terrible, and it detracts from the game, because they're the main characters and all, and you hear them the most. The others were ok, but there's still room for improvement.

-the whole american-ness of the blitzball thing. i hate america, especially american sports, which is exactly what blitzball sounds like. the commentator is majorly yag: "this is exciting, HUH FOLKS?!?!?" - OFF
Don't see how you can hate a game just because it's "American." Unless its one of those "Counter Terrorist vs Terrorist-excessive American patriotism-FPS-need a $1000 gfx card" games.

-the way they say "chocobo"
Agreed.

-the pal conversion is utter kcoc - huge borders and slow-motion-esque speed
You forgot about the dark aeons. They absolutely rock. And the borders, for me anyway, are not a problem. They're actually a bonus. FF on my widescreen TV? OMFG! But yeah, it's not so nice on a average 4:3 TV. As for framerate...Ok, we're missing out on 10Hz. But on NTSC, the colours seem "white-washed"/bleached and it doesn't look good at all.

-the music so far is below-par for the ff series
You can't pull off another FFVI. FFX's not the best, but certainly isn't the worst.

-battles are dull as
I found them to be better. The CTB was a nice addition, allowing for more strategy and such. Only my opinion though.

-its not true 360-degree control, more like 16-direction control. even ff8 had 360-degree control
FF8 was just 3D models on a prerendered background. And I've never seen a camera angle change. It will never be as good as a true 3D world. FF8's world map has only 4-directional control I believe. I can't remember, it actually could have been 8-directional, which is still less than FFX's.

That's all I have time for.