While I absolutely love the cheesy premise, the game very quickly devolves into an extremely boring and frustrating routine of a random encounter for every 4 steps you take. You really can't carry enough recovery items to last, and fighting the exact same monster combo the 50th time within the same area is not my idea of fun.

In this case, being less faithful to the more frustrating tropes of very early JRPGs would have made the product much better.

While I absolutely love the cheesy premise, the game very quickly devolves into an extremely boring and frustrating routine of a random encounter for every 4 steps you take. You really can't carry enough recovery items to last, and fighting the exact same monster combo the 50th time within the same area is not my idea of fun. In this case, being less faithful to the more frustrating tropes of very early JRPGs would have made the product much better.