I enjoy a lot of aspects of these raids, but their integration into the overall world is weak. No real argument there. I am however reserving judgement on the story until we see the end. At this stage in the ivalice raids even people who had played all the ivalice games were unclear on how everything kinda fit together(and a lot of those who hadnt were just lost). I havent played Nier(interested but never found the time), so im accepting being somewhat lost for now. If thats still the case at the end, ill have a much lower opinion of the whole endeavor.