Yes, especially Insomnia feels much more challenging and harder.
And Story bits are always great.
It makes me proud of my Chocobros and scared of some sidequests.
Also more insight to what people were doing while you were gone,
only Problem, i want some teleporters, always running through is kinda annoying in Insomnia some times to me. XD Because backtraking for Sidequests
(edited by Aki-Joker)