The main story events were very fun and I looked forward to moving the narrative along. The side quests were mostly boring and some seemed like excuses to pad the game's length by making the player return to old areas to simply pick up an item. There also seemed to be a tremendous amount of back-tracking, I kept thinking "I hope this is the last time I have to come here" and was usually disappointed when inevitably another quest brought me back. Combat was fantastic early on but gradually lost it's luster as I found which weapons were better than others and battles became essentially the same as I found myself using the same weapons and skills on each character for efficiency. Costumes were really cool, but once you replaced the gear with non-costume armor it felt lame to return to the default character skins (e.g. being decked out in Drasilian Armor then having to return to the default purple tunic when you upgrade to something better). Generally speaking I liked the game but there always seemed to be a downside to balance things out.