This game is just plain Fun...actually I had more fun with it then with FFXII...definetly woth a try!
-Easy and interesting Fighting-System
-Interesting Storyline
-Funniest Dialoges since a looooong time
-after a few hours the Voice-Acting is really awesome
-you can speed up the fights
-easy earned 1000GS-Points ;-)
The Bad:
-Graphics and Visuals are not thaaat great
First off,I losve RPGs and play them since 12 years,and can´t get egnough of them.The impressive about them is the fact that the Visuals are pretty unimportant,I can´t shake the feeling many people forgot that...
The Gameplay:
The Fighting-System is a combination of the usual RBS and a Tactics-System (like in Arc the Lad,or Koudelka...but not that boring).
Trained RPG-Players know what to do after one or two Fights.
The Rest of the Game is pretty much like Final Fantasy or other RPGs.
The Special about the Game are really funny Dialouges,and a the Storyline which stays interesting until the end.I haven´t had so much fun playing an RPG for years,I even finished it before FFXII (I buyed EA later),because it was just more fun to follow.
After the first hours I couldn´t lay it aside until I had beaten the Ice Queen.
The Graphics:
Well,exept a few wow-effects at the one or the other point,it stays pretty uninterestiing...but honestly:If you skip this game because of the Graphics because of the Graphics you´re in the wrong Genre,don´t you think?
The Sound:
The Voice acting is pretty awesome after a few hours,the Soundtrack on the other side is nothing I really noticed.Exept a few tracks,it plays in the Background and never gets on the nerves...it´s nothing special,but not bad.It was ok with me.
So...:
If you´re a RPG-Fan you should definetly buy it.If you are a newbie you could easy get in too,so IMO it´s definetly worth a look.Plus it should be around 30Bucks by now and so you couldn´t do much wrong even if you don´t like it.