This was pretty good, mostly. The story is great, better than most of the final fantasy games, if not all of them. The characters feel more than just the tropes you'd typically see. They act more human, one time they made some gay jokes at each other, i do that in real life too. You can picture them living a normal life, you see these characters live and look for food and shelter, make joke at each other. FF characters are not real people, they are jrpg personified. Which isn't neccessarily bad, it just loses its connectivity with the audience. But the story is not the issue at hand, its the gameplay. When I say gameplay, i mean the segments where "you have to walk to a place then talk to a dude". Game does this often and it really hurts the flow of the game. The gameplay that isnt the combat is miserable. Exploration is non existant, theres no reason to do any of it and its so boring because of the lack of any interactables besides chests. There was a lot of times where I couldnt bring myself to keep playing this because those segments were so boring. That being said though, the story or rather, the characters were very good. The first game set the foundation. We have the setting, characters and plot points. The second needs to have the meat.