I hated almost all the characters in FFX by the end, there was no team cohesion, the love story was cobbled together in a really clumsy way, and I just wanted to Stab Tidus with a steak knife. The game seemed like 100% fan service, with every damn character fitting in with just about every Shonen Jump niche for the fanboys and girls to obsess over.
The combat system was another story. I fell in love with the turn based combat and character swapping because it added a real element of strategy to the game, not just throwing out a healing spell when your gray bar hits full and "hoping" that it goes off before the boss thwacks you.
