"My only complaint about the battle system is that I wish there was a little more variety in spells and abilities."

They could add 100 new spells and abilities and it would still just be "use x spell on groups, use melee character for monsters with HP, heal when necessary, use debuffs (if you want) on bosses." Rinse and repeat for...100 HOURS. Boooooooooring. Even worse, you can literally set your characters to PLAY FOR YOU. Wow. Great combat system.

Disagree about the music being minor. Music makes or breaks RPGs. After about ten hours in this game I just shut the music off. All of it sounds the same, and every track is reused at least twice. No towns have their own original theme. Sugiyama is the most overrated "composer" perhaps in the world. If I recall, Uematsu composed the music on it's own, and then had it converted to a workable format on console. Whereas Sugiyama made the music based on console limitations, and then only after has it 'converted' to orchestra. It shows.