Probably the best SRPG I've ever played. Found a cheap used copy and I'm so glad I bit. I rarely ever pick up my PSP anymore but there've been a few games I've wanted to try and so I drug it out of its box... I forgot how much I enjoy playing games on it. It really is one of my favorite handhelds and has a lot of really fun games on it. I don't care for the Vita so much.
Anyway, this is amazing. Think FFT:TWOTL without all the headaches. It's much easier to understand, has some awesome features (like your classes leveling instead of just your characters, making it easier when you get new recruits—though individuals still earn points they can spend on unique skills), has an undo system that makes things much less frustrating for those who just aren't as hardcore about it all (and believe me, just because you can take back moves doesn't mean OMG INSTANT VICTORY"—I've still repeatedly lost every single battle I felt the need to undo moves on, and eventually had to give up or try a new battle party), and the localization is excellent. There's tons of backstory, lots of encyclopaedic content, and you even gradually unlock pieces in a music gallery which has short descriptions and background information from the composers and arrangers. It screams quality and attention to detail, and is so much more stable and understandable than FFT. There are a lot of similarities as well, but this feels far and away to be the better game.
I haven't been playing games much at all over the last... really long time now, I guess, but this one has me coming back every day for just a while at least. It's really something, and I highly recommend to any fan of SRPGs. Ostensibly it's a remake of the original, I guess, but I read that it's less a remake and more of a bigger, better thing in all regards.
Anyway, just wanted to post something about it since I never hard jack shit about it and it's probably not going to be super-popular. Which is a shame. This is one of the best games I've played in a long while.
