the story line is amazing
but... if the battle system doesn't some how magicly get 20 times better this will be the last final fantasy i ever put my money in.
here is how the battles go...
u select attack.. a wait bar comes up, u run around the area until the wait far is full then the character auto hits the enemy. (if you are too far away u run near the enemy, and ur char auto hits him) then you get hit. then the wait bar comes back and u run around and then auto hit the enemy.
why bother making the char run around when u can only dodge 1% of the time? (anything that comes withing 3 feet of u hits), u can't block (it's random if u block or not which is stupid seeing as u can carry a shield that is visible..), the last annoying thing is that u can just sit there and win a battle (i'm not very far so this may differ later i hope). if u hit attack, ur char doesn't stop hitting the enemy when the wait bar fills, so u 2 just play hit hit hit until one dies. (running around doesn't change this except 1% of the time)
so u just hit attack, eat some popcorn, then hit attack on the next enemy u find and... wow this is boring
~blitze