I remember seeing a screenshot in a magazine labelled "ouga gaiden" and thinking it looked rad. It was! Satisfyingly deep combat, catchy tunes, branching story. Blew my mind how big a game they'd crammed into a GBA, it lasts about 40 hours and I must have played it through a dozen times before I moved on. When my GameCube started giving me disc read errors, the one reason I kept it was because it would still boot up the GBA player and let me play this on the telly. Magic stuff.

Reviewed on Feb 18, 2021


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