Wow...I barely know what to say, I've been playing the entire series from 0 to now the past few months and this is easily my favorite one, the change to turn based jrpg is much more fun to me and I love the story and cast of characters!

I won't get into spoilers so I'll just give my quick thoughts about this game and comparing it to the games that came before. First off as I said the turn based combat is great, and I love rpgs with job systems, though I kinda wish more of the jobs were useful and that it was a bit easier to change jobs but thats minor. This game's side stories, minigames and even Amon fights are peaks for the series, the final final extra dungeon is extremely challenging but fun!

The story made me cry and laugh, the cast is fantastic. I love Kiryu I really do but its nice to have a group of friends (and honestly playable women was one of my biggest wants for the series so thats an automatic win.) They all play off of each other well, have balanced strengths and weaknesses both narratively and in gameplay and...I just love them all. Stop reading this review, go play this game now and change your life.