The story and characters are so amazing they carry this game to masterpiece status for me despite its flaws in gameplay.

Having said that, I have grinded in this game several times, sometimes because I liked seeing the stats reach a particular threshold and now because I'm getting a save file ready for a friend that missed an important item and I just gotta say DON'T GRIND, IT'S A PISS EASY BRAINDEAD GAME, IT'S NOT WORTH THE LOSS OF THE SANITY.

Tony is amazing btw