This game was hyped to death in my younger years, but I only got a chance to play it in the post-Gamecube era. It did not live up to the hype. Combat is cool in theory, but feels slow and unresponsive (especially to my smooth brain that is conditioned to Super Smash Bros. Melee levels of speed). The storyline and writing is a mash-up of every bad anime and JRPG cliche in the book. Graphics during the battles look kind of cool, but the game has the ugliest overworld that I have ever seen. My little brother played using my save file, got my party lost in the middle of nowhere, I had no idea where I was in the story or where to go, I quit, good decision.