I'm going to post a full thoughts/review later, but by the time I had finished all four main characters, there were 19 characters I had never recruited, about 15 I never really used at all and tried to build, a bunch of major sidequest chains I never completed, and only 10 of the "easy" Fiend bosses beaten, out of 20, and none of the "hard" versions. This is easily the best open-world Square-Enix has ever published (for a single-player game). Such a ridiculous overabundance of great content.
That's because Bal throws you at Hard missions more often, and because it has its plot battles go through fewer chain battles, meaning that there's fewer fights per Battle Rank.
