GS: DD - Coincidentally just finished it also.
I don't really understand how you can say all that stuff above and say the game is decent, but we never really see eye to eye on games and look for different things in games, so eh what can you do.
The last ton of the game is more of the same. Random shit in the plot coming out of nowhere. No plot resolution for the very first things you do in the game. It is just a pile of nonsense to string together some gameplay. If you want my opinion on the game just check every other post I have made about it. At least for those I had something new to complain about. Here the only thing I could add is the slow boat, which yeah is just boat is slow like Twil noted.
The final boss at least finally had something put up a fight though! Go it! Going in directly after the fight with the villains was actually a bad idea! I should have just mashed attack on the boss before it because PP was actually an issue on this fight. I had to use a whole Psycrystal on Matthew because of all the Odysseys I had cast and there was revival required. Also the boss has damage, so healing is useful, there was even points where I wanted both MT healers on the field. To highlight it even more he has a move that can strip targets of all Djinn, so you have to swap people around as well (first fight in the game I ever did that on). Actually equipping Eoleo and Amiti properly instead of just using cast offs when I remembered to change their gear would have helped a bit. Muliple Djinn classes have better stat bonuses so might have made the fight more manageable. He is also probably still vulnerable to Summon spam. Generally taking the game more seriously would likely have made it fairly trivial, but hey playing fairly casually it certainly tried a little bit which is more than anything else in the game had.
So to lazy to do stat topic even super lazy mode on it. So someone else is going to have to play it (AHAHAHA take that bitches).
Short notes. Game sucked, has basic concepts of an RPG there, plenty of dialogue, stats, a combat system. It uses none of them for anything remotely any good.