As other reviewers have mentioned, this game has so much potential, but things are just slightly "off" as far as implementation.

I've completed the third entity, and am on my way to the 4th, the Wind entity, but I'm running out of steam to continue. The story itself is not bad, but it's been the grinding. Now, though, even the grinding to level seems worthless. Here are the flaws that I've encountered:

1) So many of the skills with certain weapons are pointless. Why would you want to use a skill that also does damage to your entire party? Why would you equip a weapon on a magic user that only allows you to heal or attack or revive one person when you can equip the other that allows you to do so with all monsters or the entire party?

2) Useless characters and skills spread out across characters that could be combined into one. There are just too many characters. I have at least 3 or 4 that I never use. All the good magic also is spread out across umpteen characters. One can heal, cure, and do water damage; one can do lightning and ice damage; one dark, fire, and recover magic; and a final revive, regenerate health, and earth damage. It doesn't matter what spells they can do--I just want healing and revive when it comes to bosses. Then there are two characters that provide protection: physical and magic. They are mediocre hitters, so the only one I use is the one that increases physical stats, and only during boss fights. The tanks, for the most part, have no decent magic spells for damage. All the good damage spells are based on the "FP," which takes forever to build up--and when I say forever, despite how long a normal battle takes (more on that in a bit), you rarely build up enough to use a damage skill. The tank skills that require magic, for the most part, are pretty useless and a waste of a turn.

3) I hit level 50, and now there's nothing. I can build no new gear for anyone. This means that neither the halfling nor the dwarf can get any new armor. On top of that, apparently I've purchased all the abilities. I'm still accumulating points, but there are no skills to purchase. I'm at level 66 and a little over halfway through the game now. Leveling also seems to only minimally boost stats, so new equipment that you buy is the only thing that will help.

4) Unbalanced monsters. Just let me one hit these guys. I'm really only spamming a few things during regular attacks. I have my hardest hitters in and the one who does mass healings. She has a mana bracelet that lets her replenish magic. Yet, the monsters hit for a ton of damage no matter how much I level (I leveled from 50-60 during one area just to check), and it always takes at least 3-4 rounds to take them all out.

5) Unbalanced bosses. After all that leveling, I should be able to tackle a boss easily. But no--some of them will just start wiping out the whole party, while others are cakewalk.

6) More and more money and stuff, but nothing to spend it on. At some point, I found a wealth and a treasure bracelet. When equipped, they increase the amount of money and treasure earned during battles. I now have nearly 1.5 million in cash, with very little to buy. I have so many items that I've started selling them, since you can only keep 99.

7) Part of the fun in these sorts of games are the npcs, particularly those who give sidequests, and also exploring. For the most part, npcs in a town are all going to say the same thing. There really are no sidequests, and there is no interesting dialogue from the npcs. You cannot go into any houses. The only buildings you can enter are the shops and inn. Pretty much, you march into a town, buy the next set of gear and rest up, then march out again. . .

8) Repetitiveness. So very linear, which goes with the above. There really is nothing to explore. After leaving town, you march through several basic screens, fighting monsters, then you get a camping tent, which is your signal that a boss fight is coming. Then you're back to town for the next round. Here and there, there are added sets of these before you get to the big "entity" boss, which just take more time and usually indicate that you're going to end up with yet another character at the end.