It feels almost disingenuous to me to say this game "holds up", because to me that implies there is a caveat to the quality of the game. It is just an absolutely fantastic game experience, with amazing music, fun in the party variety, exploration of zones, and the boss fights being fun but not too hard.

My only bad note for the game, and I'm not counting it against the score, is the DS added content. The Lost Sanctum is so brutally bad it makes me wonder why it was added in the first place.