Man coming from the amazing wild arms 3 to this is jarring. The visuals are bland and kinda ugly and the amount of bland, boring dialogue here is mind-numbing, exploration is nonexistent as you travel in JUST a straight line. I don't care for the characters as they have nothing interesting about them. The game has a level select screen rather than an overworld taking me out of the experience. They decided to add platforming for whatever reason and yes it is bad. There are few positives here, some of the music is really catchy, the towns are really big and intricately designed (I'm a sucker for big towns), and the battle system while nothing amazing is something new and unique. I Want to go back to this game sometime as I'd like to finish the wild arms series but man it's just so boring.