Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
The farther you get, the better the battle system gets, until it's the best battle system in the series. That's basically the game's redeeming quality. That, and the world suddenly opens up and becomes explorable near the end of the game.

To be fair, the world opening up is just a big wide isolated area the characters get to. There's no way to re-explore the already established areas in the game.

The battle system is really smooth and the game has some really great encounters though. It's "tight" in that the leveling system and such make it the least grind-heavy game in the whole series (unless you want it to be). The fact that you can see enemies and avoid them is an improvement over X, IMO.

I found it leaving a little bit to be desired ultimately, but that's really because the game is a battle system and nothing else. I like most of what the battle system does, but I just wish there more to the game than a mostly hands-off battle system.