Sorry, I tried to enjoy this; if this game did not have a story and were purely just gameplay, this would've been the most tedious game I had ever played, and when I noticed that, I was just too far to abandon it.
You will either spam attack, spam magic, or spam cure; for a gameplay where the point is to think about what move to use next, I did not need to think a lot, whenever I want to use either thunder or quake magic it just doesn't matter unless the enemy is immune to it, I'm not wasting a turn to use sense and check what the enemy is weak to if they already die quick enough, the gameplay feels the same from start to end and it gets tedious little by little.
The story didn't impress me either, it's not bad, just wasn't impressive for the most part, it has memorable moments that overshadow the tedious gameplay, then it's gameplay time and it overshadows the story, to the point I wasn't giving a shit about the story anymore and just wanted to finish the game.
I had played a few JRPGs before, and this is the first one I did not like. I get SOME of its praise, this game tries, just doesn't succeed to me; if I had to replay any game, this one would be the last. Totally deserved a Remake.