Well, I finally beat the game, after 34 hours (29 were spent synth'ing, of course...). Good game, I give it a 7/10: gameplay's addictive as crack, but the game itself feels too shallow. Almost no story, little NPC development and, well, I must admit it: I don't want to synth a monster ever again. I grew soooo tired of synths that I won't spend another 30 hours unlocking all the after-game extras.
It's not that it's a bad game, at all. After Pokémon, this comes second in a 'games I clocked the most hours in' list. But man, it's tiresome and time consuming. Ooooh, so time burnt into this game
Now, I'll start something different... maybe The Runaway 2 or something non-RPG. Then, FFXII:RW