You lie. The game was great in the context of it being one of the first games released for PS2. It really showed off the capabilities of the system.

It was really short though. If you skipped all the cutscenes, you could finish the game in 1 hour. But the idea was for you to play over and over again and beef up your characters levels/stats and unlock boss characters for versus mode. But that idea didn't really fly with someone like me, who only used Kou (one-armed Dauragon in Versus mode though).