I think I logged something like 60 hours before I finally beat it. This game pulls you in. Some of the sidequests are epically long as Roogle points out. And once you beat the game, that's only the beginning, as there are several branches the story can take with their own set of quests, which you can revisit once you complete the game for the first time.

When I say 'not as polished' as FFT I mean that FFT feels like an 'evolved' version of this game just like FFV is an evolved version of FFIII, which is no coincidence since that is what they literally are. I found the differentials between the jobs much more distinct in FFT and I had more fun playing the different roles in that game. In TO I mostly just kept people in the same job as there was very little incentive to ever switch. Also I am aware that FFT can be broken in many different ways by the end of the game but with TO's ridiculous Archer class you can break it from the very beginning of the game.