Long Answer: Illusion of Gaia is a charming JRPG that is bare bones in the extra content department, has no side quests, mindlessly easy dungeons and enemy types (aside from the boss fights which were ridiculously hard compared to everything else the game had to offer), no world exploration, and is overall super linear. There were like, three or four songs that played throughout the entire game and most of the plot was thrown into the player’s face at abrupt times. Character building was uninteresting due to the side characters having absolutely no benefit to the overarching plot as all they did was tag along for the ride essentially. The game’s ending message is repeated a million times and by then all that you really did during the entire journey was rinse and repeat mediocre town and dungeon exploration. What I did like about this game was being able to transform into Freedan and Shadow, and overall it was somewhat relaxing to play? You’re better off playing Terranigma if you want to experience the peak of Enix/Quintet’s action JRPGs.

Short Answer: Illusion of Gaia is mid.