I played some of this game on my old Nintendo DS, and found it to be kind of mid. I didn't like the characters that much (they made a good first impression and then never developed beyond those impressions), and the battles were too slow.

Gaming discourse loves this game, though. Every reviewer and JRPG youtuber seems convinced that this one is a masterpiece, a stellar JRPG, a spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger.

I can't see what these people saw in this game. The story is very boring, so much that it propelled me to finish the game out of sheer spite. The mechanics are still meh. And I've also found the time travelling stuff to be very boring.

IDK. People love this game and the consensus is that this is a very good JRPG. I really can't agree with this. This game is mid and I didn't like it. I heard that this version has a different ending than the original DS game. If so, I wonder why they did it, because the ending of this game is awful (a sugar coated happy ending that feels like it was tacked on).