[quote=@Dynamo Frokane]
Lightning is also  'stoic badass' but I'm guessing she is the exception to the rule?[/quote]

I mean, sure, if you want to just ignore the whole point of her character arc and think the Lightning at the start is the same as the Lightning at the end, by all means. 

[quote]Try and get all of the aeon summons in 10 by walking in a straight line.[/quote]

Oh, you mean the optional summons here I assume? Yojimbo: walk to the end of a cave via straight lines. Magus Sisters: Walk around the straight lines of Gagazet and fight everything. Then just a straight line after a line of fights. Anima: Return to the first straight line path and then walk in a straight line to the statues. 

There's a reason I said "if not for the cloisters" but even those are just a bunch of puzzles where you go back and forth in the same two rooms.

[quote]Try and find and/or complete any sidequests in 10 by walking in straight line.[/quote] 

Well when most of your side quests are "fight monsters" or "press 'x' to do thing" a straight line is just as tedious. 

[quote]Try playing blitzball in 10 by walking in a straightline.[/quote]

Run down the middle, Jecht Shot, hide behind the goal. That's pretty much a straight line.

[quote]I suppose in 13 the sidequests are.....oh wait it doesn't have any does it?[/quote]

If you ignore the C'ieth stones then I suppose you could say that. 

[quote]Towns arent just about breaking up the travelling, there also the conversations you have with people in each town and the geography and backstory to each location, this is how you flesh out a world, you populate it, you give it houses, you give it living breathing people.


You don't stock it with wingy exposition and shitty flashbacks so the whole game feels like a bad fever dream.[/quote]

Spira is fleshed out by your party members giving ham fisted expository dialog. Let's stop acting like 10 has some amazing world. Cocoon and Pulse are fleshed out just as much as Spira is. Both games are poorly written but so is [i]every Final Fantasy game[/i]

[quote]I dont actually think 10s characters are that great, but they at least have auron, 13 has nothing.


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13 has the entire main cast. It's fine not to like them but all six of them are more developed than the cast of 10. And like 10, the sequels fucked everything anyway.