Level 99 for 99% of the game amused me. I like it overall.

It was like a good concept that needs working on. Kind of like Mario Sunshine, but that's not relevant.

ummm yeh i am stuck on ffxii n i havnt played in like a week lool n just started kh2 again wich i have beaten like 20 million times.
But yeh ffxii aint a disipointment its just dat mabye dey dont understand it or mabye its to hard lol

I personally quite like FFXII, i've played 184hrs of it (and thats not including the 1st time i played it, 183hrs) so far and have all of my characters in their level 80's (i'm trying to level up all of my characters evenly).

Things that i like about it;
a. The cities/towns/villages etc- i love the environments in FFXII.
b. The battle system- the best battle system i've played in a FF game so far, love the freedom of it etc.
c. The side quests/challenges are fun and involving, like the Clan hunts etc.

Things that i wasn't too happy about the game;
a. I never really found the story that involving, it was interesting and fun at times, however i found it too be overly complicated, uninteresting/dull and predictable at others time. IMHO The story would have been better if the characters had been more involving/appealing/interesting, which brings me onto my second point;
b. The game did have some really good characters, but i think the characters were let down by the way the story panned out. Like Penelo, she automatically became one of my fav characters from the moment she was playable in the game, however i really think she was let down- throughout the game she felt more like a side character than one of the main playable ones; she just kinda tagged along and occasionally spoke and that was about it.
Or Fran, i thought she was a really interesting character, however the game allows us to find out so little about her.
I just think the story would have been better if the player had been allowed to grow a better bond with the characters, like by allowing them to find out more about the characters or simply involving the characters in more scenes so they could shine more etc.
c. Lack of Card game or Chocobo Ranch- i know this sounds silly, but i really miss the Chocobo Ranch of FFVII. In FXII Chocobo's played an absolutely miniscule part in the game, they were just a means for occasionally accessing small parts of the maps. Chocobo's are awesome and its a shame they didn't include the old Chocobo Ranch. I also miss the Card games of older FF games, those were pretty fun and helped fill in the gaps when the story moved slow.
d. The pacing of the story is wrong- the story moves very quickly and easy, while levelling up characters takes a very long time, which means if you want to level your characters up at a good pace with the story so they are in their level 90's when you are ready to finish the game, it means that you have to spend mindless hours simply killing monsters and not doing much else etc.
e. The selling of items in the Bizarre- if i hadn't gotten the walkthrough for the game, there's no way i would have known how to obtain certain weapons and items from the Bizarre- the chances of me accidentally coming across something like an Artemis Bow would have been increadibly slim. I don't think they should have made this part of the game this way, obtaining important items shouldn't be based on slim random chance. At least in FFVIII, they told you what items you needed to upgrade your weapon- this was a much better system i think.

Anyways, this is just the stuff from the top of my head. I did go through phases of not playing the game for weeks (even months), however i'm playing it quite regularly right now in an effort to complete the game 100% (doing well so far). I think its a good game, but i think it has many issues which make it not as addictive as other previous FF games- most people i have known that have played it never bothered to complete the game.