The first 2-3 hours of this are extremely tedious. The battling is just a case of pressing X, X, X, X, X, X et cetera. It heats up a bit from chapter 3 but some more variety from the word go would've been nice. Compared to the old FF games, the battling is a bit messy to me as well with numbers, friends and foes being all over the screen. It's the most linear FF game I've played as well. There isn't a lot of exploring to do. 3.5-3/5