It's a very promising game with some really great ideas, but the randomness is obnoxious. Making a jump into an area with an impossibly powerful enemy with no warning is ok, sometimes. When it happens every game, a dozen games in a row, at random spots with no possibility to prepare, it's dump. Really promising other than that.
This is one of the most amazing game series ever made. The different characters provide very different gameplay and story, the decisions you make can reverberate across games, and the atmosphere is phenomenal. The infiltration of RPG elements into an adventure game is done beautifully, and plays like a dream. And I still hum the theme song to myself even to this day. Games like this are few and far between, and playing them should be a must for everyone.
