You guys all fail at math: 4>3>2>1. Oh, you're rating the discs...proceed.

Of course it is. It's like chopping a movie into four bits and going "what bit did you like the most!?" only movies are usually not chopped into bits, hence the rarity of those discussions.

That said, the story (the vague, bordering on feeble attempts at one anyway) gets more engaging towards the end I reckon, but I think I'm with Jolli if I look at it purely in terms of gameplay. The third disc from a gameplay perspective was easily the most annoying, and the bosses sort of just stopped being interesting after the first disc, feeling entirely random and.. usually you get away with good old brute force.. which is certainly not something the first boss indicated.

3 is where it does the best job of feeling like it's actually going somewhere story wise but it sort of snaps back into being mostly about... walking around a lot after that. The biggest obstacle in the way of fun here is when they've gotten "creative" with puzzles and what have you. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm QUITE the puzzler (Professor Layton is on his way to my house as we speak) but not these dumb kinds of puzzles where you spot the solution a MILE off and all that's stopping you is random encounters and not being able to see the area properly or at least a map of it, constantly running into dead ends while repeatedly assaulted by wildlife and such.

1 and 2 have so far been the most about what this game has done best, which is fun bosses and fun combat.

I think I will finish it tonight and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a memorable last boss encounter.

SimOWNED!

Haha, yeah you're right I've only basically finished the game. :D

But by all means, if you reckon the "story" has even kicked off by the end of the first disc then there's certainly only up to go from there.

For me? I'm quite frankly baffled at the lack of intrigue, and this being my first properly played jRPG I do certainly hope this isn't the norm.