Its a fighting game, you'll only get your money's worth from fighting human players instead of sticking with the lousy A.I. even then, I would agree that some equipment set-ups are just brutal, though Duodecim has surprisingly balanced some of it better. At least the game now gives you a way to stop infinite EX-Mode set-ups so Cloud and Garland are not unstoppable.

It is a fan-service game, and I mostly ignore the plot cause the back story about Chaos, Cosmos, Garland and WoL is pretty silly in my opinion. The true joy of the 10 Destiny Odyssey quests is just watching how much they parallel to the characters true stories in their games, at least for some of them. Duodecim does a better job explaining things but its still not a full picture and sadly the 12th cycle only explains what Mateus is doing and help rectify why Kuja is such a drama queen. The interface is much better though...