First off, somehow the games soundsettings aren't perfect. The mainmenu doesn't get lowered volume, no matter which setting you use. Or the voicelines at the start of each battle, will always be too quiet, because it uses the same soundslider as the background music, which is way louder for some reason. Other than that I don't have any problems with the settings though!
I played the game in Japanese to learn the language more, so the dialogue might not be entirely the same in english, but I loved it and think the story and characters are really nice. However, the combat in this game is kinda annoying. The fact that you share your HP with all your familiars doesn't really make me want to use different ones, I try to find the best one and just use that one. You do gotta change them sometimes if a fight takes too long, but I usually used that time to just heal up again if it was a tough opponent and switched back once they recharged a bit.
The game does have some weird difficulty spikes aswell. Normal overworld encounters are already so weak that they flee from me, but randomly there will be quests or bosses that have enemies that just almost oneshot your entire team. I reduced the difficulty to easy after being unable to progress at a certain point in the story, just because I had already all the best gear, was overleveled and cleared all sidequests. Yet I still was unable to do anything to that story boss. Kinda disappointing to have this happen in an otherwise really nice story. I understand the last bosses and afterstory bosses being able to oneshot something if you fail to block or dodge, but having a boss do that before you even gain the ability to command your whole team to block with the click of a single button is kinda weird.
After that I just kept playing on easy, so I did not encounter that problem again, but I suspect that some bosses will still be much stronger than they should randomly, as I found complains about just that after I encountered it and searched if I did something wrong.
Some items you need to grind to craft certain items that aren't optional for sidequests are crazy hard to get. I farmed like 10 hours for the last quest of that kind.. that was the worst experience I had in this game.
Overall I really liked the experience though and once you gain access to all abilities in battle it does feel much better than at the start of the game. It is a great story and the fact that there is an entire book filled with information, short stories and so on is a nice touch!
