I never got around to the original back in the day, but this PS1-era RPG remaster feels like the ideal way to blend together the crunchy, messy old with the slick, streamlined new. The chunky little pixel sprites overlaid on stirring, expansively remastered background graphics are just the tip of the iceberg... the dense, obtuse stack of poorly-explained systems and arcane hidden paths are there, but with a modern sense of accountability. You can toggle on things, ignore them or dig in at your whim, the game is going to politely let you bend and break it however you like. I can't deny the old school rush of mashing buttons, endlessly pumping upgrades into stats, and churning through the breezy pointlessness of its anime-trope genre mix... but there is a point where it all starts to wear a bit thin.