As easy as this game is to make fun of, when you cut through all the weirdness, it does have some great parts.  I'll give you a mild spoiler (which should really not be a surprise if you played the original) and say that this has one of the most heart-wrenching moments of a Final Fantasy game.  Probably the most, since it somehow manages to encompass all of the tragedy in the original FFVII in the same fell swoop without seeming tacked-on.  However it's prefaced by a lot of nonsensical jibba-jabba about goddesses and honor and lifestreams and so forth, and is accompanied by an amazingly innappropriate j-pop song.  My brain has somehow come to terms with this, and I will probably be able to enjoy Final Fantasy-like games for many years to come, but it sure as heck

I wrote the following as an homage to the latest Final Fantasy game.  It works not only as bad poetry, but as an example of the kind of dialogue you can expect in the game:

~SOLDIER Honor~

What is in the dreams of Angels?
To destroy that which causes suffering?
.....
An Angel is nothing
but a Monster that wishes to be human.

True, the plot of this game barely makes any sense.  And it features an awful lot of girly-looking guys playfully swinging giant, throbbing swords at one another...