It turns out STK's uninformed opinion is completely correct on this one.
Die Hard Gamefan gave it a terrible rating, and I agree with them.
Game is 9-12 hours long. Tons of loading. Dungeons have lots of back tracking, encounter rate is extremely high, story and characters are cliche, battle system is a watered down Tales of and Star Ocean 2.
Avoid at all costs. This has me worried about Record of Agahest War for 360.
When I'm done with it, straight to ebay it goes. I'm not selling it here because I'm sure no one will buy it anyway.
I think I'm going to be more selective of RPGs I play. I avoided Sands of Destruction, which seems like a good idea. I should have done that with this game too.