I personally love the series. A lot of people whine about it not having enough of a Final Fantasy feel to it, but I disagree, it's fun to see all those familiar elements in an anime series.

Yeah, if I recall correctly there's 26 episodes (?), and since it was supposed to consist of 52 episodes at first, you can definitely see where they've had to compromise the telling of the story, and that sucks. And the summons... I hated the way they made them look

Otherwise, it's great and you really get to like the characters.

(SPOILER) Kaze