A good game with some serious flaws.
Story:5/10
I'm not gonna say what the story is about, but rather how its played out. First things first, its EXTREMELY cliche. Almost everything is a cliche in this game. However, the story has a great complexity with many plots and villains. That's another problem. It has too many plot holes at the end, too many villains for its own good, and its WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too complex for its own good. The characters, however, are its saving grace. Great interaction and development.
Battles: 9/10
Great battles here. Tons of spells, magic attacks, skills, weapons, armors, ect. make the battles fresh every time, which is great. However, battles, though not random, occur too often, because of the insane amount of enemies on the feild, making it kind of repetitious after awhile. Dungeons/Towns: 7/10
Dungeons: 5/10
All they are is just one huge maze with tons of monsters and almost impossible to solve puzzles every corner. And the designs don't make it any better.
Towns: 9/10
A fair amount of people, good amount of sidequests in the towns, good character interaction, great designs for the cities, and its not annoyingly large like Final Fantasy XII, and you got tons of weapons shops.
World Map: 4/10
Ugh.... just ugh.... boring design with WAY TOO MANY enemies on screen.
Overall Gameplay: 7/10
Graphics:
Character Design: 10/10
Great beautiful anime characters with great design into great looking chibi(ish) anime characters.
Backgrounds: 8/10
The dungeon designs vary from good to sucky, while towns look awesome.
Graphics overall: 10/10
Great cel shading with great design and the battles look astounding, and so do the spells. The very rare anime cutscenes are absolutely beautiful but there are only 4 of them, and the CG sequences are pretty good, and there are 6 of these. Too bad they're extremely few and far inbetween.
Graphics: 10/10
Sound: 9/10
Voice Acting: 7/10
Some of the voices sound good, while some sound horrible, forced, and fake ( Lloyd, Sheena, Presea).
Music: 9/10
Great orchestras and good battle music, and when the game REALLY shines in the music is when a CG or anime cutscene occurs.
Value:10/10
I cannot tell you how MANY SIDEQUESTS THERE ARE!!!!! And a game with almost no sidequests takes about 55 hours, so this is a keeper.
Tilt: 9/10
I have no idea what the heck this means, but I guess its how the game flows. It flows pretty slowly and steady, which is good.
While it has its flaws, its a really good game. Keeper.