I remember watching someone play through this game years ago so when I saw it was ported over to the PS5 I thought I’d give it a try!

I’m a sucker for that old look of PS1 RPGs so aesthetically I think the game looks great. I also really enjoyed the turn based gameplay and how you have to time your button presses for attacks (although I must admit the fact you can rewind time with the ps5 port did lead to me cheating a bit here and there mainly just for regular enemies though).

I liked using the dragoon powers, while just looking cool they added a good variety to battles. Overall I didn’t find the game super hard a few battles here or there gave a good challenge though.

I think where the game did lose a few points for me was its writing and story. There’s a few awkwardly worded parts here and there as well as a few typos I caught. I also did lose the plot personally once I made it to the fourth and final chapter. I still wanted to see the game through of course but I felt a lot of stuff was happening that I didn’t quite understand but that might of just been me.

In the end I did end up earning the platinum trophies for it, which outside of a handful of optional stuff isn’t too hard to do. Nonetheless I did enjoy the game and would be super interested if they did a full blown remake of it someday.