Warning: The following is my opinion, and I'm very set on it.
Marvelous voice-acting means nothing if your characters suck and marvelous pacing means nothing if your plot is ridiculously cliche, preditable, and dull.
We're calling the gambit system dynamic gameplay now? The system that allowed me to beat the entire game without pressing a button other than in some boss fights? Do we have no standards of gameplay in this industry at all anymore?
Did you bother playing any of the FF games that Uematsu wrote the music for? If you did, then I'm confused where you go the idea that XII had good music. If you didn't, then I pity you.
Profound questions? Political freedom? What the hell? The plot was basically Star Wars in a Final Fantasy setting and was incredibly predictable. The only thing that even made it mildly interesting was the Judges, but they were barely an afterthought in a mess of an attempt at a political plot. The characters in FFXII seemed incidental at best in the grand story.
Wow... just wow. This is by far the worst part of this. We have Ashe who was a complete b*tch, Penelo who had no personality, and Fran who is bland and generic. Terra was an interesting female lead in a genre that doesn't have them often. FFXII was the exact opposite. Absolutely awful characters in general in the game with the slight except of Balthier who was still worse than most good RPG characters.
