Don't let the title mislead you.  This is an AWESOME game.  The plot is amazingly creative, the character's moves and spells are cool, and the addition of powerful allies known as guardian forces that you can use in battle are a nice touch.  however, the magic system is a little confusing and impractical.  You can drastically increase your stats and build up immunities to bad status effects by "junctioning" the spells in your inventory to that statistic or immunity.  The problem is this.  In order for it to have an effect of any kind you need a TREMENDOUS number of spells.  Rather than learning spells, however, you have to "draw" them from multiple draw points along the map or steal them from enemies. Also, rather than use magic, you can summon massive beasts to kick some a** for you.  The problem with this is that you will begin to rely on these things too much as using them costs you nothing (no MP, no HP, you just get to do massive damage for free) and then when you hit points in the game when they become unusable, your other skills are horribly underdeveloped.  Once you get past this, though, the game is an absolute blast, but VII is still the king of all games.