I gave this game a chance and wanted to like it, but it's not very good. The whole stat leveling system sounds neat on paper, but it just feels like you have so little control over what stats level for a character. Like, you can't control the hp levels of a party member unless you directly attack them, for example. And needing to use magic constantly to level it up is not fun in the slightest. A lot of late game magic is basically unusable without deliberately grinding it because it just starts at level 1. I also literally never grinded once and still felt overleveled for the entire game. Probably my least favorite JRPG I've played, to be honest.