The characters do look amazing. (except for muscles, they failed in making a 6-pak).
It is the same storyline, but it has worked for....12+ games, and shows no sign of stopping
ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF GAMBITS! NO MORE WAITING FOR FIGHT SCENES! It's all live, right in front of you. You can pick fights, or run away from monsters (There are like 30 monsters in the game and reused over and over again, which is lame, but whatever, they die).
Buying Magicks and Technicks is nice, and the abilities and things are similar to that of FFX, only you have a lot more freedom to move around, rather than a this to the next to the next.