I remembered a review I wrote up of the game shortly after I stopped playing it, actually.
http://www.skyrender.net/ff12_review.txt
I'm sure some of it will be scoffed at as short-sighted or missing the point by fans and defenders of the game, but keep in mind, this is the impression I got from simply trying to play the game. I was not trying to "master" it, I was not doing anything to "figure it out", I was just doing what made sense to me, as a long-time RPG player who had (and still has) no interest in MMORPGs. And this was the impression it left me with, a lot of the negativity stemming from the gameplay doing its damnedest to make me hate the game.
Oh, and on accusations of Star Wars similarity, I noticed a fair bit of it too. The music doesn't help, particularly not the piece that sounds almost like a slight variation of the Sarlaac Pit theme.
Sky Render - Sanity is for the weak.
