Good review, making some good points on why the game failed, especially in many FF game lovers opinions. It's strange to think that one of the many reasons why we love FF games (the combat) was last done really well in FFX-2. The game you can't play in front of people.
A few of my main issues, besides the story were; side characters coming and going, press 'X' to go gameplay and leveing, I had more trouble with normal enemies than some boss fights because I was outnumbered and they all attacked my main character and sometimes when enemies attacked your character while they were moving to attack, it cancelled the attack and didn't replace the ATB... I mean what the hell.
Hmm, pie.