Was hyped to play this finally because I loved the second game in the series but it's pretty meh. Kinda dig the simple adventure story on offer but the localization is noticeably bad, and the battle system isn't nearly as interesting as where it would get to in II. Not helped by the fact that this is a sub-par remaster - there's a smear filter on all the pixels that you can't turn off, and there's none of the QoL features you'd want on a modern remaster of an old JRPG, which is a real problem because Grandia has noticeably long magic animations and you have to use them a lot.

I got far enough in it and am curious enough about it to still flirt with the idea of going back to it one day, but it's definitely one you should play on an emulator.