Pros:
- Character Stories
- Pace of Turn Based Combat
- HD2D GFX
- World And Environments

Cons:
- Grinding!!!! 4,630 JP (8 Base Classes) + 15,000 JP (4 ADV Classes) = 97,040 JP / (300 JP / Battle) = 323.5 Battles (Maw of Ice Dragon + Hard Worker + No Cait Siths). Now do that for at least 5 rounds (only 4 slots in party).
>> In most JRPGs that I love, I push the toons to Max Level. This one's going to be a skip. According to the
community, endgame can be beat at level 45 anyway.
- Items have no visual difference of gear. Iron Axe = Rune Hatchet = Viking Axe = Ogre Cleaver. I can understand if a developer has limited resources and a 64 kb hardware limit of a SNES cartridge. SquareEnix has neither limit. So why the shortcut? Why add more work to your audience's suspension of belief?
- Players don't have the choice for the Subclass costume to show in Overworld. Toons magically swap wardrobes for an ambush. Why add more work to your audience's suspension of belief?

Overall, If you love JRPGs, definitely buy.

The game i feel is slightly overrated. The combat is great to a point, the music is pretty good, but the story is dissapointing.

The combat has some great mechanics with breaking the shields to make the enemy vulnarable, but this slowly starts to get repetetive. You cannot change your party othside of town meaning you'll have to run all the way back from town to open a chest if you don't have Therion in your party. Party members also don't get any EXP if they're not active party members, this cuases you to need to grind a lot since there is no real incentive to swap party members apart from clearing that party member's story chapter. Also bosses just feel like health sponges and then you get to a point were you need to spend an entire round replenishing mana so you can't heal and then your enire party gets downed and you spent several minutes in a loop of ressing and healing.

The stories are decent enough. Most have well known platitudes and messages meant for children, which isn't inherently bad but it's in almost every story over and over again. There's also the fact that none of the narratives ever overlap. Chapter 2 of both Cyrus and Tressa's story take place in the same town but you can only do them one at a time. Your party ceases to exist whenever there is a character specific cutscene. The gets really bad when a single guy steals something from you because the game acts like it was just Tressa standing there even though your party was just fighting with you a minute ago. None of the characters interactions are voiced and they are few and far between. It feels like they were just put there to fill space.

TL;DR: The game starts out fun with it's interesting combat, but it gets repettive pretty quickly. The stories of each character are all self contained and don't interect with eachother.

Meh. Boring af.
- The story is too generic
- Random encounters every 15s
- Fights is fun for first 10-15h, then you stuck with boring zero-challenge something without speed up option
- Pretty useless elemental attacks, so you're not even allowed to have some joy with magic vfx
- Every time you finish a fight, you have already forgotten what you were doing on the map and where you were going in this monotonous labyrinth, but don't worry, another useless heal item is definitely worth it!