My second final fantasy with the first being 16 just a month or so ago. What a whiplash. This is an rpg so much variety in combat and lots of strategizing. Love taking advantage of enemy weaknesses and figuring out ways to optimize stagger and damage. Very unique combat with the real time and turn based. Story was very engaging and very excited for Rebirth. I never played original so I’m sure I am missing out on stuff but this was a fun ride. Difficulty was tough but fair usually. Until the second last boss for me which had egregious checkpointing such that I had to knock down to easy which made it trivial I wish that was ironed out in playtesting. Also I really like the materia system but wish we had pre-sets for characters. The game was great but felt it could have been like 25 hours and accomplished the same thing. Fun game