This game has you repeat half of the story 3 to 4 times to finish it, the combat is a bit bland (all weapons of the same type are just reskins with different stats, but the move set doesn't change at all), the magic spells you get from the beginning of the game are the best during the whole adventure, and it suffers from the Evangelion syndrome, where most of the worldbuilding is never explained in-game and you need to get to additional material to understand the "why" in most of it.

It's tied with a couple others as my favourite game of all time. Do play this game, it's an experience that can't be compared to any other (except perhaps NieR Automata). The OST of this game is absolutely wild (arguably most themes were better in the original, but that's not important, they still rock). The characters are amazing, the art is on an incredible level, and Yoko Taro's view on post-9/11 humanity is really worth a deep look.