Every game was designed with a purpose. What was this games purpose? To be a person's first RPG. It's simple, fairly short, and holds your hand quite a bit. Do I think it did its job? Yes. Does that make it good? Eh. The plot and characters are basic and there's plenty of more modern RPGs that are also easy to get into that have better stories. I will however say I like how monsters were on the overworld (most SNES RPGs are random encounters) and that monster sprites change while getting close to death.