I really wanted to love this game, and for the first 20 hours I was in. But there is a slump in the middle, where things seem to fall apart. There's no benefit to changing your combat style once you have moves that you find work well for yourself. The side quests are mostly boring fetch quests, in towns where you're not allowed to ride your chocobo or even run your regular speed. Once you get back to a railroaded story mission though, things pick right back up. The main cast, story, and locations are the high point of the game, and it still has a lot of great game. I think I just wanted more of that and less of what slowed me down and pulled me out.