Spent a lot of time on this game, but for some reason it did not grip me like FFX.

Gambits kind of ruined it a bit for me, as they automated most things and it just felt like walking-from-place-A-to-place-B-and-letting-the-console-do-the-fighting-for-me affair. This is an unfortunate trait that FFXIII inherited whereby you only controlled one character and job classes dictated the actions that would be taken.