Man.. I really wanted to love this game. Unfortunately, the game just has too much wrong with it. Repetitive and boring side quests that 'apparently' get good after the 30th one, easy combat that is only satisfying when its being a set piece, which to be fair to the game is quite often but its just too shallow to be interesting on the regular difficulty, which by the way you can't change until after you beat the game, just an insane choice there. The storyline, while initially intriguing starts to take a nosedive about 60% through and just keeps falling, finishing in a very unsatisfactory way.

I have never really played a final fantasy game through all the way until now, and the best thing this game has done is its made me want to play some of the more well respected ones, because this was really disappointing.