well it was for me, I enjoy jrpgs a lot, well not so much lately because I don't have the time.
They complain about the graphics and how boring are the maps and that there are almost empty...i dont recall seeing maps full of life in any other jrpg either...they are almost the same, just random enemies walking around for you to fight, some items and treasures here and there and nothing more :/
The combat is like any other typical jrpg...it is boring if you don't like this genre.
Eternal sonata was freaking amazing too and they said the combat was repetitive and the plot bad, same goes for lost oddysey about the combat not the plot (this one was tedious because of the random combat for me but it was fun nevertheless ) resonance of fate, enhanced arms, carta magna, star ocen the last hope(yes I really liked it yet everybody hated it when it came out) blue dragon (gamespot gave this game a 6 and for me it's a ...everyone says skyrim is awesome and for me it was an awful rpg and still is, Xenoblade Chronicles everyone claim this is one of the best rpg out there yes because nobody finished it and knows the real plot and how shitty it is in reality, how repetitive it gets, how the quest plain bad and simple, how the ending is just terrible it was so bad that I had to stop playing it and I finished it a year ago(it was driving me crazy)...can't remember other titles right now, it was when I played with my xbo360 and borrowed ps3 of a friend of mine.