Final Verdict: Great story, great characters, great character development system (The Crystarium is well designed), the world is amazing! Combat...sucks giant balls. It's super easy and runs itself. And it doesn't even run itself efficiently. The AI are retarded, all you do is hit Auto-Combat and shift paradigms once in a while. You can literally throw 2 on medics and 1 on commando/ravager, walk away, and you will still win. I've actually done this. I was fighting some armor lizard thing, so I went and made a sandwich occasionally hitting "X" and came back and the fight had been won. So, I did it on a boss fight too. Still got 5 stars. Simple game is simple. That aside, it feels like Xenosaga II with better voice acting. But Xenosaga continues to be my favorite game series ever. Good game, crappy combat.
@Narunik: Difference is they compressed everything so it's lower quality, also it runs slower and they took out some bonus content.