If you like JRPGs it's a worthwhile title to get. It's battle system is real time and you can see you enemies before you enter battle, which avoids 2 peeves people often have with JRPGs (turn-based and random battles) though real time, it's not really a button-masher, you have to think about some of your attacks - you can use different spells and techniques, as you would in a typical JRPG, but you might find using things like Blindsiding and rush mode to be very handy. In the last boss, I did a chain combo in rush mode with 2 characters which dealt 60,000 hp, which as you can see it's a pretty handy thing to do, though not always easy to pull off, especially when you're being bombarded with attacks.
So it has a lot of action in it. The story is good and you can have some quite long cut scenes where you can drop your controller and kick back whilst you rest your fingers. The bosses are challenging, even if you've trained your characters up well, so grinding can help, but you will find that you need to have some skill to beat a boss.
The only annoyances are:
the dialogue - truly awful - the characters say some stupid things and aren't very good at delivering a point and they go on a little bit.
the voice acting - some characters are fine, Edge you might find a bit whiny, most of the female characters are annoying, Reimi can be okay and Myuria is fairly normal.
certain characters - Edge (the MC) is meant to be strong and virtuous, but I find he whines too much to be that 'strong' figure and his sentiments of 'friendship' seem a little cliched and 'pass the bucket' and he can get sentimental too often I think. Plus he's so very naive. Sarah is just a complete moron, she's perhaps funny to a Japanese audience, but it didn't translate well for me, likewise Lymle is meant to be 'cute'.
But they don't stop it from being an overall great game. I find my above annoyances appearing in anime I've watched, considering I'm not an anime fan, it'd probably explain it. Maybe to an audience that loves anime, they wouldn't mind the voice acting or the characters.
So I would recommend it to anybody who likes those sort of games.
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