I had a blast but not for everyone.
This game plays a lot like a dungeon crawler like Diablo 2 or Titan Quest DVD-Rom only instead of hacking and slashing you actually get in to encounters. The enemies are visible which eliminates the annoyance of random battles. The battles play out actively like Star Ocean Till the End of Time, which elimates menu droning. Having 6 characters can throw off your attacks at times which can suck but ultimately having those extra characters often helps far more than it hurts.
Since the game is very much like a dungeon crawler the story is kind of lame and takes a back seat. The focus here is in the gameplay whether it be leveling or collecting treasure. You can take missions to give you more of a reason for your treasure hunting but at the end of the day you're still doing a lot of dungeon diving, leveling, and collecting until you feel that you're ready to move on with the game. On the plus side there are a lot of items and they're randomized. You could spend a long time in this game collecting treasure just to customize your looks.
The difficulty can be a little wonky at times. One minute you'll be king of the hill and the next encounter can be your doom. This eventually becomes less of an issue when you realize you need to go all out in battles, and when your level and equipment improves. This may turn off new RPG gamers quite a bit but this will be an easy adjustment for folks who've played their fair share of RPGs.
The graphics are pretty solid. The game runs smoothly with a minimal amount of loading. Sometimes the environments can seem slightly repetetive and sterile but this is only rarely the case. It would also be nice if you could travel away from the city, but at least they made up for this by making the city big and detailed. All in all a good showing graphically.
In summary, I like the game quite a bit with my only personal gripe being the spotty difficulty. This game has its fair share of flaws though. Unless you're willing to look past the fact that this game isn't very story driven then I would say give it a pass. I can only hope for a sequel to this game though. They have laid the groundwork for what I feel can be a great series and they really don't have too many flaws to engineer out of the game to bring it from good to great.