I actually quite like the basic battle system in situ but after 20 hours of hitting walls and spending more time reading the wiki to understand the subsystems that surround it than actually playing I've concluded that there's a reason this was the Last Remnant

Playing this takes more energy out of my brain than will ever be regained by the endorphins it releases in a very literal negative-sum game kind of way

I'd like to contribute to the common lore surrounding this game's absolutely schizophrenic game design by mentioning that for some reason every unit has one stat that no one knows what does that just randomly levels up and also the fact that most guides start by recommending you install several cheat programs