If I look beyond the few bugs, it's a really cool game. For some reason or another this franchise has completely eluded me so far, and I'm glad I found it.

When I first heard "tactical RPG", I was a bit confused what that even means. It's an RPG based on turn-based combat, kinda in the vein of Advance Wars and similar. It's really engaging and fun on the game mechanics side.

Also, the presentation side is immensely cute and humorous. The English voices are, well, not quite up to par... this game was localized back when voice acting for video games in the West was considered a novelty at best. But switching over to the Japanese voice fixes that, they did put in the needed talent.

I do wish they spent more energy on bugfixing the port though, particularly on OSX. Both the controller and the keyboard has issues.

If I look beyond the few bugs, it's a really cool game. For some reason or another this franchise has completely eluded me so far, and I'm glad I found it. When I first heard "tactical RPG", I was a bit confused what that even means. It's an RPG based on turn-based combat, kinda in the vein of Advance Wars and similar. It's really engaging and fun on the game mechanics side. Also, the presentation side is immensely cute and humorous. The English voices are, well, not quite up to par... this game was localized back when voice acting for video games in the West was considered a novelty at best. But switching over to the Japanese voice fixes that, they did put in the needed talent. I do wish they spent more energy on bugfixing the port though, particularly on OSX. Both the controller and the keyboard has issues.