Just finished the game tonight... I guess its good know that my track record with Motomu Toriyama is still going strong, which is basically the man has yet to make a game I like.

The ending is total BS and I despise games that go out of their way to make everything seem like its "A Ok" when you know damn well things never go that smoothly. I think the game would have been better off if they dropped the whole FalCie nonsense and ended the game at chapter 9. The sheer amount of "Let's do this together! Cause together, anything is possible!!! Go team retard" speeches that were going on in every chapter after Chapter 9 was just ridiculous and destroying the characters credibility with me.

Beyond that, I feel the battle system was great and the upgrade system is fun once you can actually start really using it(80% into the game). The cast ranges from excellent (Sahz) to good (Snow, Fang, and Bartholomew) to tolerable (Hope, Lightning, Cid) to "I wish you would die in a fire" (Vanille and everyone else in the game that hasn't been mentioned yet). I really feel the cast and plot peaked too early. The gameplay offers a great battle system but everything else in the title is marred with poor and just plain terrible decisions IMHO.

Definetly in my bottom of ranking of FF titles. I'm actually debating if the battle system saves it enough from being my least favorite title in the series right now.