I absolutely love the monster recruitment mechanic and the story was so good! Two major complaints with this game, though. First, it has the badass monster recruitment mechanic and then gives you like 4 canon party members so you have to choose between using all of the cool monsters or the canon party. Second, The whole final dungeon absolutely BLOWS and the final boss was an insane difficulty spike, the whole game was a leisurely breeze and I ended up having to grind up to level 42 and stock up on elfen elixr to even stand a chance at beating the final guy, and even then he using disruptive wave to nullify my insulation, and then breathing fire all over me. He wiped me so often and theres no save point or shortcut to get back to him so you have to go through the whole dungeon to get back to him. This sucks because the game is really good in every other aspect. On to DQVI!