This game is based on a few nice ideas and contrary to what I've read here I haven't encountered any bugs yet. From what I had read I had expected a bit more from this game though. If you take away the graphics and the story this game consists of about three mini games and a lot of time flying in a spacecraft while keeping an eye on dropping ressources. The first few hours were fun but after always losing three of your six NPCs at some point and starting all over it becomes a bit monotonous.
I am not a frequent player of Japanese RPGs but I do like them from time to time. This one is definitely the worst I've played. I liked the game for several hours but after that it started to become more and more annoying. - The game is far from being complex. You could say it doesn't get any simpler than this. You read dialogues without making any decisions and you fight the very same fights over and over again. Yet there is so much I didn't know about for hours and probably still don't. For example abbreviations are not explained at all. I had to find them in a forum where people were guessing what they could mean. - The fights are very simple, always the same, and yet you could probably write an essay about which monster can be defeated best by which combination of the thousands of unnecessary techniques. So of course you could fight the battles using great strategies but you have to invest hours into research just to give this game some form of meaning. - The fights can only be won because of a very limited AI. The most important strategy in this game is to exploit the gaps in the AI and hope that the AI does not, by chance, make a random move and wipe you party out. - In case your party was wiped out you will probably want to reload. This usually happens during major battles. Preceding major battles are major dialogues which can last for minutes. You can fast forward them but it will still take a minute or two because characters moving still move at the same pace. Diaglogue cannot be skipped. - Choosing a mate seems to be one of the goals. It is probably a Japanese thing that all the candidates are girls who are/act like they are between 8 and 12 years old. So my guess is you either have to be younger than 15 yourself if you can listen to them without gagging or you...are into this. The game is better than one or maybe two stars. The first few hours are ok if you like fights and improving your partystats. But after that this game just becomes annoying + boring
