It was a great risk to change the traditional Final Fantasy formula, but the result came out perfectly good!
The Graphics are awesome, as usual. Nothing more to be said about that. The sound as well. The gameplay has changed a lot since the earlier games. I must say that I was sceptic, and that I hated it the first 10 hours or so. But I guess that is to be expected. After all I loved the earlier games. However, after getting used to it, I think these changes are good. even though all battles are fought real time, the commandings of the characters are much the same. The gambit system which decides the characters actions works very well and is really detailed.
The licences board, I think, is the biggest dissapointment. For the first time in Final Fantasy history, you can now decide for yourself which characters to be specialized in what. I believe this makes the characters less individual. Because of this I can't give the game more than 8/10 points when it comes to gameplay.
The game is lenghty, as expected. Value 10/10.
And since I love this game this much, I have to give it a great upward tilt! Those of you who miss out on this game, miss out on something really awesome!