Its Final Fantasy, which is good, but the complicated Job system can get a tad stressful.
First of all, you no longer find all these different characters who have distinct personalities and are all trying to achieve different goals, instead, you join up with every character (4 in total, Maybe 1 or 2 more who replace others but Im not going to spoil it for you) who has a trab, run-of-the-mill backstory. It almost feels like your playing an older NES Final Fantasy.
The story also isnt as good. It revolves around Crystals, like most FF games, however similar to FF1, its just "We must protect each Crystal before the Bad guy can get them and cover the world in darkness".
But what REALLY, TRULY, killed the game for me was the Job system. It complicates everything and prevents you from truly enjoying the game. First of all, chances are youll have each character try to master multiple classes, however because of this, youll need to buy many items and peices of armor and itll cost you lots of gil clog up your inventory. You also have to train your characters in a whole different way, you not only have to worry about gaining levels, but making sure every characters classes are good enough to progress.
And ALSO, for some reason you have the ability to use 3 different flying things, A Wind Drake, a Black Chocobo and an Air Ship, which is weird because you replace one with another and the other just sits there, weird.
All in all, I have to say this game is crap, playable crap, but crap none the less.
Its the Zelda II of Final Fantasy, its fun, but who really wants to play it other than people who just want to get it overwith.
Oh yeah, and the writings also terrible, I mean, can you really take a game seriously when the main character talks like Robin? "Holy Macarel!" "Creeping Crawdads!" Gross.