Only like 3 hours in. It's... hard to say? Currently I rank it significantly above XIII but below everything else. If you look at it like "This is what we've waited for since 2006!" then the answer is no. But if you think of it as being freshly announced at E3 2013, it's much more reasonable.

I just am not massively keen on the combat - it's fun but I'm not good enough to have much control over it. And there aren't enough 'RPG' bits outside of that for me to dig into. The Ascension Grid is a super super cut down version of the Sphere Grid. And not having control over all of my characters makes me sad. I want a gambit system. This would be a hundred times more interesting to me if I had some proper control over the rest of my party (and if the magic system didn't suck).

The magic system really does suck IMO. It's not that it has no use... just that it has only very limited use and isn't particularly interesting to do so. In short my main criticism of the game is that my RPG doesn't have much RPG in it.

Hopefully I'm going to start getting into some more meaty story soon; haven't even done a dungeon yet.