That's standard tales fare. Start a billion threads and ignore them, then resolve all of them in the last 3 hours of the game.
The only other one I've played is vesperia and while it sort of did that I don't remember it being anywhere near this bad. For example (xillia spoilers):
There was a part where elize had her doll stolen and the thing that gives it its memory and personality removed by some bad guys. It was reset back to being completely personalityless and she was very sad and the group decided to chase after the bad guys... they made it all of one city, got distracted with something else, stopped chasing them, and a few scenes later the doll just mysteriously turned back to normal
like at this point I'm legitimately wondering if the writers just forgot what happened earlier in the story because things just connect so poorly
