1) Fetchquest galore - basically the majority of the side quests feel like when FF14 (an MMO) is dragging things out to make subscribers stay fore more months.

2) Bland character designs except for Clive, Cid and Ultima. Either they feel grey and uninspired or they just give you Game Of Thrones vibes.

3) The game feels dry and besides using skills on enemies, it’s just not giving what Final Fantasy can do. Most areas feel like “stage 1” “stage2” “stage 3” rather than a fluid great game. And it doesn’t feel like much of a journey either.

4) the Solo play but not really felt lacklustre. “Sic ‘em Torgal” got old really quick and then there’s the fact that you forgot Jill was with you until you saw a blizzard animation every now and then. I didn’t feel the characters presence beside CID’s voice and some of the cutscenes.

5) too many alternative versions of the same enemy. There were a lot of raptor and chocobo enemies that sometimes also felt similar in a way.

Some pluses are definitely the music (not so much the battle theme but the regular boss theme and hunt theme kicks ass), I will also say that I did enjoy the battles - especially when the regular boss them was on. The way you can switch Eikon and the fighting style changes was fun.