The second half the the story was pretty nice but overall still have a few issues with.
- Huge numbers of people die, but only people we don't know or only met a few minutes ago.
- Having your friends sacrifice themselves only to be resurrected a few minutes later, cheapens the whole sacrifice theme.
- First half the the story was boring in general.
- Endings to story lines that were build up to for multiple expansions felt anti climactic. Most notably Zodiark, Zenos and the whole of the Garlean war.
- Cause of the Final Days felt a bit arbitrary.
- To many Japanese (I assume) story themes that don't make sense to a western people. Like (but by no means limited to) Hermes' story "I said something while assuming A, but now that it turns out like B I have to follow through even if it destroys the word", or "I need time to listing to Meteion, so I am going to fight you in stead of asking you to wait for 10 minutes".
- Main antagonists dialogues constantly trying to prove how evil they are.