The game is great when it sticks to the basics. The combat is fantastic, the character development and world building is good, some of the minigames are awesome (chocobo racing is my favourite). What lets the whole thing down is the overdone extras. So many unnecessary stops and starts and hand-holding (world intel, CHAD, unnecessarily slow cutscene like sequences where you walk slowly and press L2/R2) as well as way, way too many minigames. It just felt like a chore to get through. So while there's a 20 hour gem hidden in here, you're forced to sift through 20 hours of rubbish to get to it.