This game is excellent, don't get scared by the dungeon maps people love to show every time this game is brought up, most of the dungeons are really well designed. I disliked some of the content added in redux (Alex and some of the dungeon gimmicks added in the womb of grief, those are bullshit).
The combat is good, I still prefer the turn press system, but it's still better than your average JRPG battle system.