I am currently at the end of the game with just the final boss (who is a cheating bastard) and the last two side missions (getting Zodiark who is just as nasty as his XII counterpart and going through Midlights Deep so I can fight Yiazmat and unlock the super special awesome ending) and I can honestly say I really hate this game. It was a love for FFXII and my own stubbornness that got me this far but I can't bring myself to bother finishing it. The plot is pretty terrible and its obvious the game was ham-fisted into being a FFXII sequel (it was original suppose to be a new IP) because the writers did a piss poor job with their characterization and characters like Basch, Ashe, and Larsa have no business being in the plot considering how little they bring to the story. This was strike two against Motomu Toriyama for me before XIII came along and drove home the fact he's a hack who doesn't know what he's doing.