The game starts off slowly and it's very easy to fall into what feels like a grind trap. This is in part due to how they have handled dungeon difficulty: if you complete the first dungeon on the hardest difficulty you will have the level and gear to start the second dungeon on the hardest difficulty. But if you do the first dungeon on an easier difficulty, you will be under-leveled and under-geared for the second dungeon on the hardest difficulty. There's no need for the game to be a grind, but you need to commit to a difficulty and a party of 3 characters. The visuals and audio are great. Combat is fun and there's plenty of character-combos to think about. The story is nothing special but good enough to keep things engaging in this genre. My biggest gripe is that parts of the game encourage you to revisit dungeons (e.g. side quests) while other parts of the game discourage you (e.g. crafting materials from a given dungeon becoming obsolete faster than you can gather enough to craft anything). That is one area the game could have done with more tuning, though my experience may have just been caused by the fact that I chose 3 characters and ignored the rest, thereby speeding through the game at a faster pace.
