A good game that becomes less interesting the bigger things get. While I’m fine with where the plot eventually goes, I kind of preferred the lower stakes prior to the big bad’s arrival. The politics that shaped so much of the story fall to the wayside once the “kill God” plot takes over. The final boss is a great fight but the ending is underwhelming and feels as if it ended that way because they assumed it’s supposed to, not because it got there naturally. FFX earned that ending. This game didn’t.

The combat is fun but occasionally too hectic to keep track of all the particle effects constantly going off. I may just be an old man, though.