I agree fully with this. Honestly, if you dont jump off the city first chance you get, or the second you realize this game doesnt have the invisible walls, the bait and switches, the interesting areas on the backdrops for looking only aspects of most other jrpgs, and just jump off the city into the lake and coasts and islands and caves of freedom, and you dont immediately just love the crap out of excersizing that freedom, by exploring this gigantic playground that just happens to be the first area in the game, and seeing enemies that are blocking access to areas, and maybe trying to sneak past them, or making mental notes in your head about how you are going to come back when you are ready. Then this game is not for you.
If you really like that, but feel the combat is lacking, keep playing you wont be dissapointed. This game has a wide variety of foes, including optional superbosses that will make very good use out of the games well varied combat system. But building those skills, empowering the party, does take some time, but it will get there, and it will regularly keep dropping yummies to keep you mentally engaged, while trying not to unload so much at once as to be overwhelming and immediately forgotten.
If you really like that, but want to know about the story as well, keep playing, you can pretty much advance the plot at will, as long as you traverse the distance, and most people enjoy the story, even if its just the surface layer of the story, and feel its pretty good, so you probably wont be dissapointed.
If you dont give a shit about that at all, and just want to b-line straight to where the arrow is pointing, to get to the next cutscene until you beat the game, why are you playing this game? (Why are playing games at all?) Watch the cutscenes on youtube. The huge draw of this game, is completely unappealing to you, and you really should look for something else before dropping money on this game.
The game has plot twists all the way up to the very end.
