A very fun game that is harder than what it seems. Definitely a lot harder alone than with others, but still doable. The leveling system is good since you can choose different stats to make more powerful, which can drastically affect your gameplay. Also, choosing the best weapon and animal orb for what you are trying to do adds in a bit of strategy into this otherwise chaotic game. Expert mode is where it gets actually insane.

The story starts off easy enough to follow: battle the enemies and save the princesses (and magic crystal?). However, after beating the cyclops in the volcano area, it feels like the story just goes off the rails and the writers might have just went mad, doing whatever they wanted.

The collectables are fun to try to get. It's nice to unlock all of the animal orbs and weapons, and it's fun to unlock a few of the other characters. However, you REALLY need to grind for a long time to be able to unlock all of the characters since you need to beat the game several times with essentially everyone.

Overall, very fun beat-em-up style game that is especially fun with friends. Also, the story isn't a huge deal, so that was kind of me just nitpicking.