9/10
This game is absolutely amazing. The controls are simplistic and easy to master. The graphics are great, the scenery especially is just mind boggling.
Only things keeping this game from a perfect 10 are as follows. The movement of your character with pressing up to move the direction you are facing can sometimes boggle your fingers a little.
When in some areas if you wish to repeatedly look at the map pressing pause repeatedly to access the sub category and then the map are is a little tiresome. Even something such as a menu memory feature would be handy.
And the biggest negative of all is the camera angles. Especially in some boss fights the camera with it being fixed at certain locations can make things a bit hard to see.
All in all I definitely highly recommend this game. I would say it is more of a renter then a to buy game. The game itself with one run through (not including 100% completion) could easily be attained during the time you have rented the game out.
Replay value is decent due to the gift system and making friends with different characters, but still I say rent over buy.