For me it was by far the worse of all I played; I don't recall what was the chapter (10 or 13) where you can roam in the big area with the crater/crystal thing in the middle but I remember clearly giving up at this point.
My main problems with the games:
- The story was really not appealing to me (those guys on road trip... A car... meh)
- Combat system
- Equipment and gears
- Flasks or whatever is the name of the spell system where you mix elements
- Traveling time and quest... Took like forever to complete a quest even the smallest one because of all the traveling
But the game definitely looked really amazing graphically; which the main reason I went so far before stopping.
My favorite FF is by the far the 12 :)