L'ennesima prova che Square è una maestra nei giochi di ruolo a turni e che dovrebbe un po' fare attenzione coi suoi action. Detto questo il combat system e boss design del titolo sono preziosi. Premiano di gran lunga metodo ed esplorazione pittosto che il grind senz'anima per aumentare di livello. Il boss segreto ne è la prova vivente. Peccato per la maggior parte delle trame poco interessanti e connesse molto lievemente con un'interazioni tra i membri del gruppo davvero minima. Le OST sono spettacolari a sto giro però. Square coi turni non delude a quanto pare.

I do feel a little bad about this. When I decided I Like RPGs Now the other month I dove into this one with the mindset that I'm going to see the story through and not give up when it gets tricky, and here I am doing that.

The battles are fun, or at least they were 30 hours ago. I kind of dread them now but that's probably me getting impatient with the game. The BP and weakness system create good strategies without getting overwhelming. Thing is, I ended up building a party that relies heavily on multi-target elemental attacks to whittle down the enemy defense, and I just ran into a boss whose ability is disabling those specifically.

Not a huge deal, all I have to do is change my party and grind the weaker guys up while figuring out a new angle of attack. Except... in 40+ hours, this game has not managed to make me care about any of these characters. The story is bad. No, worse: the stories are bad. All 8 of them, equally insipid.

I could do the grinding, or I could stop playing.

Oh well. I was only playing this because I heard such good things about the sequel. I established my baseline. Mission accomplished, moving on.