For various reasons, I haven't been able to play games much lately.

But I finally got a chance to pick this back up this weekend.

I still can't decide if I'm enjoying it or not. I'm not not enjoying it, but it's also kind of boring.

I was already on the fence about the action gameplay. But it's Final Fantasy! I play it for the story, right? Except...the writing is really not doing the game any favors.

There is a secondary antagonist who wants to kill you because he's a jerk but also because he thinks you did something terrible to him. Except it turns out that he knows you didn't do it; but you have the same name as someone who did! He just hates everyone with that name!

It's sort of funny (and the character is written to be as dumb as a bag of rocks); but you also spend several hours of your life dealing with the consequences of someone who just has the stupidest motivation I can think of.

I will say this, though: the final form boss fight for this guy was pretty epic. I don't normally like it when games turn into different games. But this one turned into a really fast rail shooter with a fantastic Soken-style rock music track and it was just...radical. In the 90s sense.

(The fight ended up lasting way too long because they love their quick time events, but it started off so promising that I'm going to give it an A.)