The entire party is entertaining as hell. You also have the ability to free run in battle. That's where the improvements on Symphonia end. Shocked the music is, again, so unremarkable. Too much jargon quickly saps the player's ability to care or take things seriously. The story has no idea when to end. The RPG side of combat does very little to make up for the lack of depth seen in the action side versus pure action game contemporaries of the time.