Your first experience is usually the best
Whenever I play a new game, I compare it to Grandia. Not for graphics, but the idea of it, and fantasy-esque atmosphere, and the fun. I mean, when do you usualy get to become an adventurer, and travel new worlds as one, meeting great characters and villans on the way and loving them anyways?
I rememeber Justin's and Feena's time on the boat to the New World and the time spent climbing the huge wall that seperated everyone thinking that it is where the world ends. Only to find out for the first time that there is a whole new world on the other side.
Grandia, as a game, is one of the best I have ever played and is definetly comparable to the final fantasies, or even better I dare say, and will always have a place in my heart.