YO! the final fantasy legend aka makai toushi sa•ga is my fucking jam! after being uninterested in this game from not knowing its vibe (and really shouldn't i at least try to understand final fantasy's vibe first?), I obligate myself to play it as part of my Game Boy Journey and I fucking love it!

so yes, it is obtuse. sure, it is difficult at times. but it's obtuseness gives it mystique, not aimlessness. its difficulty can be solved by Just Thinking For A Second and Saving Often. and by sticking with it one gets in return a really weird adventure with really rude characters in a really bonkers setting that whips from medieval to literally Akira in the course of 10 hours.

the JRPG of it is wonderful too. its combat is kept simple, complicating itself only in interesting ways like breakable items or elemental resistances and weaknesses. the leveling systems are cool too: humans level up only by buying stat boosts and equipment, monsters and mutants level up by Fuck Around and Find Out.

some things aren't perfect: I think the balance between random encounter and boss battle is all out of wack by the last dungeon.

stillFFL is an odd, eerie, and refreshing classic jrpg and I recommend it to anyone freak who has access to it.