I will keep it brief since I don't want to waste anymore time on this game.The story is boring whoever says otherwise is lying. It starts of good(Empire vs. Empire, tradegy and all that), and it gets your attention. However, the story just dies from there.The story fails to keep you interested with all that political rabbling.The gameplay was interesting at first, but like the story, it gets dull. You run around for most of the game with a gambit system that requires very little action on your behalf. It is very easy to take advantage of the system and once you do it, it gets boring. Even if you don't it still is boring.Story and gameplay make a RPG, and Square Enix failed miserably. The scores would be lower if it did not have the Final Fantasy name. It is beautiful and nice to look at, but that does not make a RPG.