fun game, combat feels good the randomness of sidequest objectives is a bit annoying leading to replay of levels without progressing them, still it levels up your characters and gives currency to improve other stats like HP, damage etc
the map design is somewhat linear but enjoyable but it's dragged down by the boss fights being annoying with ever increasing HP bloat with your damage output not increasing while their output does got to tedious so I abandoned it after the penultimate boss fight
gave it another go after abandoning it years ago it is a good game being let down by a terrible endboss fight, theprevious bosses were fun even if you failed a couple times, the final one was just tedious bullshit didn't get the good ending because not 100% of items found
played the PC port overall game is fun, but you do need to look up things that would be in the manual otherwise, save states removed a lot of possible frustration glad I finally played it.
gameplay is a bit static with the other characters not moving by themselves, story is what holds it together, still took me months of on and off play to finish it