Quote Originally Posted by Hunter Noventa View Post
Oh it wasn't even just the sidequests, remember putting down parts of the map as the world expanded? The order and location in which you did so determined some of the items you could get. Good luck figuring any of that out without a guide.
And once you put the places down, enjoy them constantly coming under attack, so that you need to run back and forth to fight the same battles over and over again. FFTA2 fixed that by ending the clan wars, at least, but replaced them with the ridiculously breakable auction system (once you open the coin shop and begin outspending everyone else).

I liked the idea behind having multiple races in the advance games, but in practice, it gated so many interesting build possibilities. Instead of Tactics' 19 jobs, you get far fewer to work with depending on your race. Are you a Bangaa? There's not a lot of options for you, sadly. Nu Mou? You're some flavor of mage (or morpher in FFTA). Moogle? You're a juggler, or a worse version of something else.