This game is boring. Unlike the first game this game does little to try to change itself from the competition. This game is the first one but worse in almost every regard. The battle system is annoying and slow, most of the time you're shooting enemies that are off screen and getting knocked into different camera angles. I guess this one was trying to be scarier than the first one but its hard to find it scary when you have infinite ammo, enemies stay dead permanently, and you can shoot fucking fireballs and wind blams which completely take you out the mood. The mood isnt even really there in the first place, most things arent threatening, and you know full well what the game is throwing at you. Theres no cool battle music, no interesting battle system, characters are somehow worse than the first, and the setting is more stale. The puzzles that you would get from resident evil games are practically non-existent. I tried to force myself to finish this but most of the game is just spent smashing your face against every wall for useful items, shooting offscreen enemies, and boring and dragged out dialogue all of which is lacking any good music. I wish they just expanded on the first games combat system.

The game is kinda cool. I wish the gameplay system was expanded upon. It plays like a standard rpg but with only one character and you have to actively avoid attacks. on paper it sounds cool but in the game its more annoying than anything. A good chunk of attacks tend to be unavoidable or random whether you get hit, like giant aoes that covers the whole arena. This game also introduces my 2nd most hated debuff in any video game which slows you down and makes your atb gauge move slower. Sometimes it just makes you stop completely, which is very fun if you dont have any of the consumables to get rid of it. I think it would be interesting of you could get through the game without really leveling and just avoiding attacks, even if its unpractical. In a way thats how souls games work, where you could beat every bosses ass at level one but its kinda hard and would take a while. The rpg aspect should exist to give players decisions in how they want to confront scenarios, and to alleviate the pain of having to do everything at level one. In other words, it exists to make the game easier. This is actually really interesting and makes the game far more fun to play than any of the ff games, 1 through 7, even if it get frustrating at points. The music is pretty consistent bangers, especially the main battle theme. The story is a bunch of gibberish with key character moments that are more memorable than anything the characters actually say. Aya's character design is prob one of my favorites from tetsuya nomura, because she is just dressed and looks like a normal human for once. Game kinda bangs, even if frustrating at points, and its a ps1 adventure game which means smashing your face against every wall to proceed. Also, the warehouse is bait, dont go there until prepared or you will get fucked on.

I mean, its mario. it doesnt do a whole lot to stand out from the sea of 2d platformers honestly. Theres a lot of good 2d platformers even during and before the time period this game came out. I like the 3d marios a lot more because those game typically have cool looking levels, great music, and a lot of things to shake up the gameplay with the bosses and the game gimmicks. This game is like mario 3 but now it looks more generic and instead of tanuki leaf you get big and small mushroom. Theres also the blue shell but i didnt really care at all about that. Maybe the game is a product of its time but i cant even bring myself to finish the game and its only like 8 hours long. it gets stale at the 15 minutes mark and goes on for 8 more hours. It throws all the new stuff the game has for you early, then it just slowly burns away. If you like mario 3 youll probably like this game, but i dont.