Poor trolling? Puns?
Have you considered the distinct possibility that some people may just have a different opinion than you guys do? I don't find the game to be The best JRPG ever made, a Messiah in Video Game format and the glorious redeemer of the JRPG genre - pretty far from it. I could enumerate numerous better JRPG's even if you woke me up in the middle of the night - the game is dull, boring and incredibly slow. The characters have as much dimension as cardboard cut-outs and they're transparent - exactly what you'd expect them to be, at least from my "brief" gameplay experience which resulted in violently rejecting the game.
And no, don't give me the "You didn't play it from cover to cover so what do you know?" mumbo-jumbo - a game either draws the player in or it doesn't. I gave it more time than I usually give games and the result was disappointment. I may give it another chance when I literally have nothing better to do, but only to instill myself in the already-formed opinion - it's a fantastic world and an interesting story concept with a poor game built on-top of it, point.
Play some Persona, Radiant Historia, the Final Fantasy Remakes for the DS, Golden Sun for the GBA, I don't know - a good JRPG, anything, and then gloat about how this game is great.