What started as what I hoped would be a nice simple JRPG experience, quickly grew out of hand as the game just kept getting bigger and bigger without any terms of advancement in how it plays, never getting easier to sit through. It tries its best to stay compelling, the story is good, the characters are good, and the moral is nice even though they drop the ball hard on that point in the epilogue. For this game, I think it is one of those experiences where you could watch nothing but the cutscenes and playthroughs of side quests and you'll get everything you wanted. It as a gameplay experience goes on for much too long and even what you like about it will get crushed out of you as it goes on and on and on. I would feel better about this game and be way kinder to it if it wasn't just so intensely long