My thoughts exactly.
I played it till the end (though it took me a long time as on first try I lost interest pretty fast). I even clocked up close too 100 hours after grinding to get a last couple of trophies. But as a whole at the my whole experience was... meh.
Having played FF7, FF8, FF9, FF10, FF-10/2 previously, this quickly became the least enjoyable of them all, yes even worse than 10-2. I never felt attached to any of the characters even though they seemed to try to force it on you.
The combat system was just plain awful, often feeling like I could get through the whole game by doing nothing more than pressing X a few times... actually I reckon that is probably possible.
The story was confusing and hard (to me impossible) to follow, at times I didnt know what was going on or even who the main ANTAGONIST was. By the time I completed it, it hadnt gotten much clearer.
Prior to this game I would always buy a Final Fantasy game just because its Final Fantasy. But this one left such a sour taste that its tainted the whole series to me. I cetainly wont be buying the next one just because its FF. Even more so given the dire FF14 online they released.
The more recent Western RPG's put Final Fantasy to shame, its a quickly sinking ship.
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