Yay, but not a yay where I can openly encourage anyone else to try it and expect them to enjoy it as much as I did.
It's a very flawed game and walking away from it completely satisfied isn't a guarantee.
That said, its strong elements really resonated with me -- I enjoyed the art style and the main party a lot, I enjoyed finding cool locales in the open world portion of the game, and I ultimately dug the combat (it took a while to feel like I had really learned how to play, though).
The story is a hot mess, the open world doesn't actually have much to do in it other than combat encounters and occasional cool locales (it's far more sparse than other open world games that have populated the market since before its release, IMO), and the characters are always going to be at the mercy of the player's tastes and from what I've gathered in discussion, the four main characters are NOT everyone's cup of tea.
I platinumed the game and bought the DLC but I actually never played the DLC. I haven't actually returned to the game since the launch window, actually. I keep trying to set aside time for another playthrough but the admitted tedium of the game is no longer countered by my genuine curiosity to push forward in the main narrative -- i.e. it's something I find quite difficult to engage with for a replay, but I did value my initial encounter with the game and still hold it in a favorable light... just not in a way that I can really advocate to others.
