Yep ive put in 70 hours and completed the main story line - although there are a shed load of post game content including some really challenging dungeons

Personally i did enjoy it although the story was quite muddled. The open world aspects of the game were the best parts

Summons work in a different way than normal in that you cant control when you use them. I liked that though as you cant just spam your way through the tougher enemies

Was it FFVIII that had the insanely overpowered summons?

Well I could let a whiny kid hit this giant dinosaur with a sword for half-an-hour, or I could summon the god of hellfire to fight for me.

I think it was hobo, tbh from clips i've seen this new ff looks like FFIII zoomed in and remastered.

the summons in VIII were actually a pretty big dead end for the most part.

It made far more sense to bum around a bit drawing out weapon parts as the high powered weapons caused far more damage much quicker than summons did.

Its just that summons looked cool and you got kind of use to using them early on