I played this for the job system, and didn't really expect much else. After all, the job system is pretty much the only thing that gets discussed about this game today, and it is really damn good!
However, there's a bunch of other really interesting/subversive things in here that are worthy of discussion. The constantly changing overworld, the open-ended nature of the last 1/3rd of the game, the permanent death of [REDCATED], the majority of your party being female, the gender expression of Faris, and I feel like that's just scratching the surface. In a lot of ways the writing of this game feels like a direct response to FF4, and that's a shame since it's discussed way less than its predecessor! Also Gilgamesh is so fucking cool it's unreal.
However, there's a bunch of other really interesting/subversive things in here that are worthy of discussion. The constantly changing overworld, the open-ended nature of the last 1/3rd of the game, the permanent death of [REDCATED], the majority of your party being female, the gender expression of Faris, and I feel like that's just scratching the surface. In a lot of ways the writing of this game feels like a direct response to FF4, and that's a shame since it's discussed way less than its predecessor! Also Gilgamesh is so fucking cool it's unreal.