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Great classic style RPG. Great throwback to the Saga franchise, Breath Of Fire, and Final Fantasy.

There's only one fix. Since this is pretty much only something you're going to play via emulation (unless you have a flash cartridge), you're probably going to be playing this on something other than your Genesis. So I wish the buttons could be remapped. Especially when played on the Wii.

In particular, I wish the action/talk/confirm button could be mapped to C and cancel mapped to B, like most other Mega Drive RPGs. Trips me up every time I load the game.

I will start by saying this game is no masterpiece. It doesn't mean it's not fun but the battle system gets very tiring because you are constantly battling. But the game is interesting in that it seems to use many sprites from other games and the battle system is almost identical to that of Breath of Fire 1 and 2 (with some minor differences). I don't know anything about the making of this game but from playing it through the game has the feel of an extensive hack of numerous RPGs. As a result it was very interesting to play through.

Where the game shines though is in its music. The music for the game was incredible. There was many a time after playing that I would get certain tunes stuck in my head. I am not sure whether or not this music was used in another game but it certainly helped to make the game experience worth while.

In short, the game was not great but for old school RPG gamers (like myself) the game was fun enough for a play through just to see all the elements from other RPGs.

When I found out about this I immediatley set out to conquer it. I'll admit my initial reaction was that this was the BEST rpg for the Genesis that I had seen thus far. After playing through the whole game (20+ hours) I can honestly say that it is definetly not the best on the Genny but is definitely way up there.

By far the best feature in my oppinion is the soundtrack. Simply amazing! It is nothing like any soundtrack on any other 16bit jRPG - the composer clearly has his/her own style.

The graphics are also exceptionally refreshing on this game - very similar to Final Fantasy games on the SNES. Very colorful and full of texture.

The only thing about this game that was lacking (aside from the length) was the story, which wasn't bad at all, just not that engaging. Honestly the translation could definitely have had more creativity put into it. There's really nothing wrong with the translation, but it is basically just a direct translation with practically no feeling to it.

Bottom line though - every oldschool rpg gamer should definitely give this one a shot. If you could stand playing all the way through Lufia 1 then this game will practically knock your socks off!

I cannot thank the translators Djinn and SteveMartin enough for this one!