Man, its awful, its plot is just a FFX knockoff, half the cast is more cartoony than in their original game. Outside of boss battles you just stay by summoning gates with your major characters and just keep sending foot soldiers to murder everything like I'm trying to actually run a historically fictional re-enactment of the Russian military strategy in WWI, except it actually works. I find the battles to be boring and repetitive, they don't have the real resource management elements that make RTS games engaging, nor are the units specialized enough to make using one type of flying unit over another, outside of the occasional time you want to play the "elemental exploitation" game.

The controls are pretty awful, and only get worse if your whole army gets trapped in an all-out brawl. I can forgive the controls because its not like SE has a great history of making RTS, but I really can't forgive the rest. Considering the Aegyl have never appeared again the Ivalice Alliance (hell FFTA2 practically makes a new race to replace them) I get the feeling SE agrees that distancing the series from the game is the right idea.