It's a very good game held back by some glaring flaws. Combat is way too easy and would have been much better if you could manually position your party. Some attacks come out too slow and as a result you just won't use them (like Frog's Bubble). Still, the young gamers who are allergic to random battles can play this one since you can choose when to get in a fight outside of the many scripted encounters. The first few hours have some of the best pacing in any JRPG although that pacing goes all over the place once you hit Zeal. The second half has some really strong moments but it also has a ton of reused assets and crappy side dungeons and Robo's awful girlfriend.

Why did they give Robo a girlfriend? Why is she just him but pink with a bow? Could they make little robot babies? Would they come out pink if they were a girl but Robo-colored if they were a boy? You get introduced to her and then she just dramatically dies in his arms. Whoever signed off on this should be immediately fired from Squaresoft.