I'd like to love this game, and I really tried, but I quit.
Hi, first of all, I know this is not the best place to rant about the game as most of people who come by here must be fans.
This game sure has qualities, but last night, I decided to quit after 20 hours of gameplay and finishing the "Master of all" questline.
Played 1 and 2 and never finished them due to the need of grinding right at the end, and couldn't be bothered. But here... even though the music is still awesome, the battle system even better (love the switching mechanic), the writing is appalling. We get it, evil guys are really really evil and they want to KILL EVERYONE and BECOME MASTERS OF THE WORLD... really ? RPGs from the Snes have better written plot. And god is the game verbose. I spent most of the time skipping cutscenes while still being able to follow the story.
Once you recruit characters, they just become invisible (or have some bland interactions where you have to choose which one you prefer), the "fake choices" are irritating (reminds me of Ocarina of Time where the Princess asked if you wanted to help her, and if you said no it just looped back to the question)
The side quest are just : "talk to this character -> fast travel to other town -> talk to other character / find an object -> come back to the first PNJ", rinse and repeat.
And then, there's the spongy bosses, when I fought the King Pardis 3 times and his last form had like 140 000 HP, that was a NOPE moment for me.
I guess the final third of the game won't change anything, so that's it for me. I wish the world and plot was more interesting, if I was more involved in it I know I could push through (for example Xenoblade 1 is great even though the sidequests are boring)
Oh well, I tried !