Yeah I played around 10 hours and I am already shelving it for now. That combined with ALL the fucking cut scenes. Jesus H Christ. I do not mind cut scenes and I know JRPG's have more than most, but for fucks sake, I do not need a cut scene as I enter a battle with inter-personal shit in a comic board layout. Keep that shit optional like some of that is. Cut Scenes to explain the story and some inter-personal relationship building is fine - but out of 5 fights I get a comic board cut scene? Come the fuck on and let me play the game. If it was limited I wouldn't mind, but after the 1st boss in the prologue, the shit happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME in that format. Not to mention we have 2 other cut scene formats. I get it, the chick is a raving bitch at first and will probably end up falling in love with the protagonist or some twist will happen and she has been playing them all along. I do not need 1 comic book cut scene every 12 minutes with that tribble to explain it 69,340 different ways.
And it is jarring too. I mean my party is entering combat - NOPE! Hold on, we need to talk about our feelings first and the monsters I am about to fight agree. They are waiting for my party to finish up their emo conversation first - they understand.
I swear in one of them I just laughed as I imagined the monsters as republicans saying "Lol look at these cucks. Let's not attack yet and listen in - we do not get a lot of comedic relief here in this cave"