A lot better

[SecularStoner]

I never thought the game would actually be pretty good looking at it. It's legit like an old school FF game.

[semp]

Yeah, it's great.
I've been playing it for a while and i think i got it. Sakaguchi is an old school developer, with one particular skill that is missing from the current devs. Namely, the ability not to rely on loads of text too much, since old games had limited storage.
You can see how he uses everything he can to show and tell exactly what needs to be shown and told and not a sentence more.
This game just flows like old FF games used to.