this game took a really interesting concept and took 20 hours to do anything interesting with it. the writing has its moments, but overall i think this game has the weakest story in the entire story, besides 1. the combat mechanics arent memorable,the multiclass system is interesting but frankly still quite limited in scope, the world felt not fleshed out, and my wife and I decided to skip the post-game and DLC because it was THAT disappointing. This game does thankfully have good difficulty balancing so that i could safely do side content without overleveling, but said side content was mostly lackluster and theres almost no good loot in this entire game.

This is definitely one of the more fun action FF games, although its bogged down by a couple superfluous systems. The story is deserving of the name, and actually adds deep complexity to the original FF. the settings are directly ripped from the rest of the series, and I highly enjoy that. There's a lot of variety in unlockable jobs, but frankly i picked the two i liked and almost never strayed from that, although being able to swap between two on a whim really helped. As soon as I was given the ability to take pot shots at range with a lance, I kept that for the rest of the game, and it never stopped being affective.
Loot always comes in a deluge. make sure you turn on autodismantle because your inventory will fill up fast and you dont want to spend time in your menus discarding stuff yourself. upgrading your equipment is never helpful, because it'll be replaced before you can get used to it, so all in all i feel like the equipment systems needed an overhaul.
Overall tho i had a lot of fun tho