To be honest, I. did had this game for 6 years it came out but I never beated it by then because well the exploration Frequent backtracking all over the place especially for sidequests is really jank.
Story and characters were really Hallow. Literally the only characters with development is Emmerson and Relia*since she's centered around the story.
Reused SO3/SO4 music.
You can move around on cutscenes
Dialogues during battles where sound effects is so loud you can barely hear what theyre saying or have time to read the text lol
Battle skills are copy paste From SO3/SO4 Lol
20-30 hours long altho I don't mind too much.

However those are the bad points. heres my personal semi biased Good points of the game.
1.Battle System is really fun I really enjoy maining Fidel,Anne,Victor the most,but Emmerson is great. Altho. some bosses are Health sponges.
2.Really nice Graphics! it's really stunning as this is was a ps3 game to early ps4 era.
3.Good music altho it reuses some but.it has it own osts.
4.Reverse Rush Is cool,Ethereal blast is powerful.
5.Item Creation is actually fun. Well sometimes. I kinda like So2s more lol
6. Challengingly fun
That's all I can say. I Like the game But as a Star ocean. I do Wish it could've been so much better. Hopefully Divine Force Turns out better.