Forget the ugly graphics. Forget the Barney-like background music. Once you start playing this game, you’re hooked. It’s not only entertaining, it’s also 99% stress-free! How is it stress-free? Let me count the ways:

1. Save anywhere, anytime! No more hair-pulling frustrations when your mom calls out and tells you it’s time to eat dinner.
2. The enemies don’t say, “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” You call the shots when you want an encounter.
3. Easy to understand battle system with optional pre-set battle tactics. No need for tutorials.
4. Battles are fun because you get to use all your characters at once, so you get to use all their skills. In fact, levelling up is not a problem with this kind of battle system because you don’t have to worry about any of your characters getting left out.
5. Customizable battle formations. You don’t choose from pre-set battle formations–you make them!
6. 0 expense when you want to rest and replenish your HP/MP. No inns that charge too much, only Althena Shrines that refresh your characters for free.
7. No more drowsiness problems because the dialogues don’t drone on forever. The dialogue boxes and the words appear fast.
8. You don’t have to worry about accidentally missing essential party members.
9. Ultra lovable characters! When you’re down, just read their dialogue exchanges (especially Kyle’s and Jessica’s) and you’ll feel better in a moment.
10. Best of all: You don’t have to go thru the final battle again to view the ending anime sequence–or any anime sequence–over and over and over and over and over….

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NOTE: This description was written sometime in 1999 and was recorded in the classic Otaku Fridge as ??.??.1999. Unfortunately the database would not accept non-numerical values, so this review is now dated January 01, 1999 by default.

Player Status:
Difficulty: Easy
Completion Time: 25+
Highest Level Achieved: 47 (Alex)
Ratings: Gameplay 10; Battle 10; Story 10; Visuals 7; Characters 10; Sounds 9; Replay Value 10

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