The previous and léater installments are basicaly crap. But this is a nice jrpg.
Very good music, good graphic, the usual turn-based pokemon/finaly fantasy-system, tons of reasonable loot.
There are only 2 flaws: one: making a solid party. That probably will involve some respec (because inexperience with the game), what can seriously drain your gold resource, second: on the highest difficult the enemies gain cheap instant kill attacks, what is just annoying.
It has some optional bosses and badges though, so it's absolutely fine.