I tried to like the game... but I just don't like it. It's a mixed bag.

First of all the story. The story is very basic and picks up later on. l'Cie are awesome and everything around them is always cool. The ending actually made me very emotional, especially with the song playing. It was in the end a very emotional war story about just children meant to fight and nothing else.

As mentioned before, the music is really good, as expected from Final Fantasy. Especially "Zero" by Bump of Chicken hits hard. One of the tracks reminds me of "Under the Apple Tree" from Crisis Core.

Unfortunately the game suffers from a lot of problems, for example the characters. You have 13 characters in the class that basically get no scenes during the main story and only in very short free time scenes. The only ones that get moments are Rem and Machina. That's it. It basically has a replacble cast.

Also the combat... it's easy and fun in the first few missions but too repetitive later on cause nothing changes. RTS combat just sucks. (ALSO REMOVE THAT MOTION BLUR PLEASE, HOLY SHIT IT HURTS)
Level and dungeon design is okay, nothing amazing.

This game just plays like a PSP game, a very old one. I might have enjoyed it more on the handheld back then cause it's clearly structured like that. You got your "wait time", limited options etc.

All in all... expect a PSP game and you will be fine in the long run.