"Special Makoto Love Omelet"
The World of Golems: 1000 years ago yada yada war with something humans shouldn't have been tampering with yadda, but that's not where the story really tends to go - You'll find it's far more towards the characters, and the strange turn of events.
The Sound of Insanity:
Most people will be either laughing in hysterics, or turned off by the 1st hour or so by the dialogue between Atsuma, Toya, and Makoto. Well needless to say something/someone of unspeakable horror is released, and it needs to be stopped... Yes, the story is a bit generic, but the dialogue, whether intended or not, is extremely rewarding to amuse yourself with - About every 15 minutes(or less), you'll find a hilarious line simply for its stupidity.
The look of Enchanted Arms:
Well, I'm not gonna lie, it looks more like a pretty good ps2 game or the like, the dialogue "scenes" are particular dissapointing in that remark, I think the programmers may have been a bit lazy in producing them - even FF9 or below's style of text would've been fine, but it looked more like Japanese animated models doing auditions for the lines. Nonetheless, the dialogue itself will be amusing enough, to reiterate, that you won't really be thinking about that anyways.
The Core Gameplay: This is what truly shines about Enchanted Arms - Evidently ubisoft and software decided to mix Pokemon and Mega man battle network to produce an interesting mix of turn-based RPG and the standing-in-the-square bit from MMBN. Although some may argue some parts of the RPG make it a little easy: HP and EP(mana/energy) refill after every battle, but there are also counter-measures for this. VP, vitality points, decrease every time you get attacked, die, or stay dead for a while in battle - Once this hits 0, you're in a state of being barely alive until you find a recharge station.
Also the choices of the Boss AI can challenge the player as well, The Fire Emperor in particular took a good 10+ tries until I managed to survive. One of the enjoyable parts was what I mentioned before of mixing pokemon, golems are spread all around the world, whether through recieving from killing bosses, lost golems, or what have you. These can actually replace any of your party members(other than atsuma) which can add a lot of variety to battles. This can be important for fighting creatures of certain elements, multiple creatures, etc.
The Bottom Line: The game has solid gameplay with a lot to collect, and even a casino to gamble at. However what holds it back from greatness is the lack of graphics for an xbox 360 game(even for a JRPG), and the storyline just felt like a mix of every other RPG I've done before. If you have a sense of humor, there are 100 moments to just look at the screen and giggle for a good minute. It's a definite rental, but as for buying, Try Eternal Sonata or Elder Scrolls first, unless you're really itching for a Turn-Based RPG.