This game bothers me. It's probably the closest I've ever come to "hating" a game.
The core gameplay is a complete waste of time. Worse, it was DESIGNED to be a waste of time. The more you understand the mechanics, the more you realize that you benefit more by not playing the game at all. And when you finally realize it, the game just becomes one, long slog, because there is so little else to do besides Triple Triad, which is itself basically a microcosm of everything wrong with the gameplay.
Beyond that, I just found the story lazy. There was good with the bad, but there was far more of the latter, and everything between was just tedious.
That, and the fact the game might as well come with a sign saying "there is stuff you're never, ever going to find without a strategy guide," made me truly feel that the game was created to annoy me personally. It was everything I don't like in games, and I'd rather sooner replay FF13...which is really saying something.
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