A lot of things to like here, but the leveling system just straight up sucks. You have to be a certain level to attack some enemies, but some enemies also have invulnerabilities making it pretty unclear what sword element can actually be used on what in some cases. The story is pretty alright for an NES game, but I got bored around 5 hours in. Might go back and finish it one day, but the forced grinding to be able to fight some bosses is a major turn-off with how obnoxious sword swapping is.