Bought this when it first came out in 2003 (10 years ago now) and played it for quite a while back then, but just eventually got stuck and then left it. Picked it up again recently with Barney and Eugene but despite 3 more reasonably long sessions, we still could not defeat it and kept getting owned by the end boss. We did not feel the urge to continue levelling our characters up so I had to resort to some Action Replay codes to finish the final chapter sadly. It was an unfortunate turn of affairs, but in this case, I just wanted to have it done and dusted and move on. I felt I had already spent enough time on it and didn't want to spent another dozen hours increasing my characters stats to be able to take on the final boss when there was already a good 25 hours sunk into it. As far as the game itself goes, it's definitely a game designed for multiplayer (as if the GBA connectivity gimmick did not clue you in enough) as it's not great when playing solo and only becomes fun when playing it with other people. The plot itself was quite sparse and nonsensical and didn't really feel like it was coming together until half-way through the final boss. The "events" that happen along the road and form your memories and seem inconsequential at the time then become quite important in the final encounter. And you know that you're not fighting the true end boss of a Final Fantasy game until you're in some kind of weird alternate dimension fighting some kind of impossible creature. Overall, a decent enough game. Much much better with other people. But requires a lot of grinding towards the end. Good to have it finally closed though.