Downsides of Final Fantasy X?

[GypsyElder]

I just wanted to get your thoughts on some aspects of 10. Mind you I loved it, and I rank it as my 3rd favorite game of the series. So it's good, but a few things troubled me.

I Loved this game. It's one of my favorite FFs of all time, next to FFIX and FFVII. I pretty much demolished the whole game. I still play Blitzball from time to time when I feel like It. I didn't really have any problems with it besides the fact that I would have liked to have a world map, like in all the other FFs. It wasn't a big deal but It wold have given you that much more freedom. I like to spend time exploring areas.

1. Powering up the final weapons was either too hard or too tedious. Jumping Lighting bolts and running the obnoxious chocobo race in the Calm Lands was more than I could take.

Really?? I had fun doing the final weapons side Quests...although, when getting Khimari's, that stupid butterfly hunt took forever...Everything else was easy...

2. There weren't enough Aeons. You really only had 5. You could of course get 3 others, and one of those featured 3 characters, but that's pretty slim by FF standards. Why no Aeons in Luca? Why none in Guadosalam? On the plus side the ability to control Aeons in battle was an amazing innovation for the series, and so I'm going to say it balances out, but I still would have liked to have seen 3 or 4 more in the game.

I can't see why you would need more aeons..You basically have one for everything just like how every character has a specific monster type they are meant to attack. You have a flying multi-magic,Fire,Ice,Thunder,Dark,Random physical attacker (Yojimbo),attack +magic skills(Magus sisters), and of course Bahamut. Though I can say that there are some missing, like water and earth aeons.

No aeons in Luca? no temple I guess. Plus theres already a lot going on there with Blitzball and everything.
Guadosalam,IDK...I can't picture a temple being there in the first place, they didn't seem too big on Yevon teachings..I guess Machalania counts for that. Plus they had that Measter manor thing going on...the temple probably would have had to be there instead.

I think the question should be why the heck isn't Ixion on the Thunder Plains?? it would make more sense if the Djose Temple was there instead of some random cliff area.

3. Blitzball didn't take advantage of it's 3-D environment. I actually liked the game, but I wished they could have taken some advantage of the 3-D sphere. The game was played in 2-D, and for me that made it come off a bit cheap. I wasn't expecting Madden 09, but it could have been a little better. Also I would have liked another team or two. When I heard Wakka say they only had to win 1 game to be in the finals, I was miffed. No team for Bevelle? No team for Djose? How about a city or team at the Moonflow? I would have liked at least 8 to make a full tournament.

yeah..I support the "make Blitzball a seperate game" It can be even better.

Let me know what you think. I'm really not trying to bash, but I did find those things to stand out as obvious improvements. I'm looking forward to playing 12, where from what I understand, each of those elements has been significantly improved upon, along with the voice acting.

for some reason I'm not too fond of XII...it's alright...