I suppose you're right.

I did five star the final boss though.

Funny thing about that is, Orphan kicked my ass the first few times I fought it. My entire party attacking it for several long, agonizing minutes managed to get off about 20% of its health. Then it killed us all because of Poison.

Two can play a that game Orphan. FF Wiki told me Poison and Imperil work on it so, I switch control over to Vanille and now the battle is a cakewalk. A few minutes of casual healing and constantly debuffing him while Snow attacks again and again and the fight is won.

I won't lie, by the time I reached Orphan's Cradle I was feeling very burnt out. I just had no incentive to finish the game since I didn't think the ending would be that interesting.

I was totally right in that regard.

I'll post my thoughts on the game as a whole later after I get some sleep but I will ay this.

Barthandalus wasn't that great of a villain for me but he had by far the best boss fights in the game. His look and the epic music helped make sure I'll remember him for a long while.