To be completely honest, I haven't played it much, not even close to completed it. If someone can PM me where I can get it in english, that would be cool, I'd beat it within a week or so and come back with a report on it. I'm very objective and won't judge it based on other FF games. That is wprobably why most people don't like it. because they see the words FF and assume it must be one single style and if they don't get exactly what thay want, they say its crap.

Anyhow, I'd love to play it so I can form an opinion on it.

From what I remember (I only played a japanese version) the HP and MP was weird ansd the graphics were kiddish. But I think thats fine. Its storyline and gameplay that make games great not graphics. Really bad graphics can ruin a game though (BoF5)