Not as bad as X but not as good as it could of been.

Music: Boring, nothing toe tapping like anything pre-X. Some rare good bits.

Characters: No development or even reason why most of them was even there, You stop and think, why is Vaan even HERE!?

Plot: The story is mostly Ive got the stone go to point B Ive got point B get the stone at Point c, rinse and repeat, It was abit dull. Most, if not all the story too place behind close doors far far far away, Your characters had no involment in the plot at all, Im not even sure if they knew what was ever going on. Very dull.

Setting: Good setting, But some of the places need some more history. However some places seemed insignificant as you never went there, You didnt know much about Ashe, she wasnt really developed, and her in her palace held no significence and you never (Properly) went there and it never had any real bearing on the story. Same with Arcades and such so theres no warm fuzzy feeling at the end, I didnt even care.

Battle system better, but weak crap summons, the system made the dungeon crawling better, which was, unfortunately the whole game.