This has easily become a top 3 Final Fantasy game for me. Like all RPG's it does have the odd pacing issue, but this does an excellent job of telling a wonderful standalone story while advancing the overall story that has been woven into this game since day 1.

There are a few improvements made as well to combat, story telling through the role quests and adding in NPC's to complete dungeons was great. It's hard to talk too much further without spoiling this incredible adventure. Just give it a go.