All Final Fantasies have some merits, believe it or not. Feion did state that he's played all but X-2. It's good to play all of the Final Fantasies, not just exclude either the older or the newer ones.

That being said, I like human-sized enemies and large enemies, it depends. For example, in Xenogears when you fight Grahf while you are in your gears and he's pounding the crap out of your gears ON FOOT WITH HIS BARE HANDS is probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a video game. I also am not averse to larger enemies, the major thing is that they're well developed.