A brilliant addition to the Final Fantasy series. Highly recommended for any RPG fan.
This game has an excellent real time strategy like combat system. In fact, the whole game is almost like a cross between an RTS and an RPG. You start off with 4 characters in your control - Vaan, Filo, Penelo and Kytes. You steal a skyship and go on adventures through sky continents and islands, containing Aegle and loads of treasure to collect.
The overall story is very deep. But I won't go too into it, as I don't want to ruin it for you. The battle system is great, however I found I only used one or two, maximum 3 moves per character, despite the 8 or so each character has towards the end. I could get through the game easily using only the main combat moves, which is a shame as this made the game a bit too easy. Also, the game can also be easily completed by simply out-numbering all of your enemies with your characters and their Yarhi. Despite each type of characters having weaknesses and strengths, these are hardly needed.
However, that didn't really matter to me. I still thoroughly enjoyed getting through the game. It lasted me a long time, even if I still have one more chapter to go. The graphics style is awesome, using sprites mainly, as well as awesome detailed cut-scenes at main parts of the game. One more moan I have about the game is all the confusing Japanese names for mythical characters, places, and all sorts of other stuff. It's all a big handful, but once you've got them memorized, it's all good.
Overall, this is a great RTS/RPG, and as long as you don't mind not having much of a challenge, you should love this game :)