I grew up with a lot of Sega Genesis games including Sword of Vermilion. More recently I finally went out of my way to play this through Sega Genesis Classics. In all honestly, a few flaws aside not that bad of a game. You only have one playable character. It does take a long time getting use to how to navigate through the maps. I always felt the music as a whole quite decent. I loved how they attempt several game play styles that surprisingly worked together. Sword of Vermilion is a forgotten RPG classic for the system.