I didn’t play this back in the day when it first released, this is my first time. I thought it was a really great game. It was a little easy and grind-ey, the pacing fell off in the back half of the game, and the combat is fairly braindead. This is holding it back from 5 stars. It’s a great story, excellent piece of software, but the gameplay falls a little flat. Atlus continues to nail the visual and sound design.