A game that could have been Square's next big thing is hampered by lame cutscenes and a truly boring story.
The biggest problem in my opinion is that the cutscenes are ugly to look at and horrendously long for no good reason. The worst part is that you have to watch them on your first (probaly last) run through to know wtf to do. The standard game graphics are pretty as are the battle effects which are cool. Yet, as i said b4, the cutscenes are really bad.
The story isn't much better. You start out on this futuristic resort planet that gets attacked by something and then you escape only to crash land on a primitive world and fight your way of that world to a middle ages world. At this point you expect the game to turn into mass effect and show you a ton of different worlds to explore, which does not happen. Instead the story breaks down into you are the chosen one. LAME!
The gameplay is really fun. Adding some devil may cry type action to an rpg is very fun and exciting. THe gameplay and the battles cool moves are the high points of this game.
In short, this game is fun and reccomended to anyone who likes rpgs but if you don't activley play them then stay far away.