Bombastic boss battles, amazing soundtrack, the high moments were so very high for this game, but the "The crystals have decided our fate for long enough" advertising tag line was negated when the JRPG God boss said that he wanted us to defeat them all along. The side quests had some great payoff, but were often MMO-tedious. I wish they could have included the important content in a meaningful way and trimmed the game down - because this is an action game, not an RPG. It could have been a concise 20 hours like DMC5 (they share the combat director coincidentally) and been fine.

My issues with the story aside, this game was so much fun to play and I look forward to playing the DLC when it is all released. Maybe a Final Fantasy mode replay in the future, but not right away. Too many games to still play for the first time!