thoughts :

1) The story is ok. The episodic nature of the first collecting fygg quests reminds me a bit of valkyrie profile. Some of the stories were rather poor TBH .The main plot is pretty good but starts out way too late IMO. Hand of the heavenly bridge & DQ8 however simplistic they may be is still my favourite plot-wise.

2) I HATE the dungeon designs. For one , the dungeons have tons of narrow corridors of which enemies conveniently spawn and block your path (and sometimes spawn on you) since a lot of them are so effin big. So it ends up while some monsters are avoidable , a large number of encounters are not really that avoidable and tend to piss you off mostly towards the end of the game.
Also , why do they move 10% faster than you?

3) Final boss and the resolution is lame. Really lame. Ending is terribad , you saved the world now you can't see all your friends anymore and have to live among mortals ! You don't even get your wings back ffs . Stupid world tree goddess . There is still some post game stuff and i suppose i'll get to that sooner rather than later.