If you enjoy playing RPG's, especially the ones of old, then as a random, wandering adventurer, I implore you to play this. It's not the longest game, but that is more IN it's favor than not, as it does a great job of making you laugh, while keeping you entertained with it's mix of references, jokes, and (stratetgic) battles. I say stratetgic battles as this: 1. In your attack phase, connect as many foes in your 5 slide movement as you can, while keeping a similar combo, such as RED to RED or MAGE to MAGE. Each attack that follows this suit adds to your combo meter, causing the last foes in the chain to take quite a beating if your chain is 3 (2 damage) or at 6 (4 damage). Chaining is the only way to damage bosses. If you wipe out ALL the enemies in a single sweep (in that wave), the next wave appears, but does not get to attack. 2. In your Defense phase, all your enemies gang up on you, and you die. Unless you "casually cheat" and quickly memorize where they're about to hit, and do...

I was really immersed into this game at the beginning but by the end it felt like trial and error with the combat.

Too many time in battles all of the dodge points are within the attack pattern. the battle mechanics are not user friendly either often time it seems have graphics showing over the battle interface making it very difficult to see. on a scale of 1 to 5 I'd only give this a 2.