I played to the fourth disk, I still found it very weak, but meh. And I did see some of the story, not all as I stopped at the desert but it didn't interest me enough. I think I should finish it because the story had been improving and I like knowing I've beaten in a game vs. the feeling of having left it on the fourth disk. But the desert was so, so, so annoying and when I read a walkthrough I never knew what point I was at so I couldn't use it without actually testing stuff which just wasn't interesting enough. Also getting good at additions again might be hard I don't know.
BTW if you equip I think it's called the talisman or something that you have one or more of probably that stops death you can equip it and beast on Lloyd. You become a dragoon, he does his one hit kill and wastes a turn because it doesn't work. This allows you to use a dragoon and make him waste 5 turns. Sinchy fight if you're willing to use this cheap strat.