Love tropical settings in games and this one has some stunning locales. Gameplay feels much smoother than the previous party games and the music is very memorable. It pulls too many things from Trails, including being too long. This is the one game where I think the setup and context of the story gives reason for a lot of it's Trails-isms. If I hadn't played every Trails game and the other party based Ys games didn't also rip from Trails then I probably wouldn't have minded so much.