Preliminary: Ooooo early Uematsu music?? Square?? Nice. Too bad it's first person and clearly inspired more by CRPGs and graphic adventure games. Hopefully it's done well! The main complaints I read was it was too short due to the good graphics?! That sounds like a win win to me lol. Oooo and the other complaint is the grinding. We shall see what I think.... RPGs have been hit or miss, with JRPGs a la Dragon Warrior and ARPGs a la Hydlide and Ys taking the cake. It has quite the fanbase, with thorough guides including the Japanese letters to make it doable for us who don't know Japanese. Plus translations/recreations of the manual. Neat! Despite all that, I wound up picking the DVD Translation patch, so that I stick with my goal of playing original versions of games but allowing for fan translations. Not a fan of the font they used, but I can't include that in the judgment since the original Japanese font is better.

Wellllll, I was oddly enjoying the grind, but the Sound was surprisingly bad, the animations not nearly as good as reviewers made it sound, and well, I just wasn't getting into it despite the desire to grind. I got to Level 3, liked that you heal from leveling up, and bought the Knife. But my dislike for first-person CRPG style stuff was too much and the Sound was annoying (what the heck Uematsu?!) so I'm moving on.