Lightning is also  'stoic badass' but I'm guessing she is the exception to the rule?

Try and get all of the aeon summons in 10 by walking in a straight line. Try and find and/or complete any sidequests in 10 by walking in straight line. Try playing blitzball in 10 by walking in a straightline.

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

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.

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