First half is kind of boring and second half does that thing ps2 platformers do where the difficulty spike is obnoxious more than its hard. The guns also never felt great to shoot in third person.

After arguments over what makes an ff game or not from their last release, Square finally gets the FF charm down perfectly. A couple of sections near the end could use some cutting and in terms of story they didn’t stick the landing but I can’t think of a rating for this game other than perfect.