this game gave me a lot of xenogears vibes and I loved it, and every character has a very sad backstory which I loved even more

Clunky, broken, unbalanced, unimaginative, and generally feels unfinished. Also there's a hard line to cross between being inspired and straight up plagiarizing a previous property. And this completely disregarded that line.

Really broken and unbalanced. It's very common to "lose" units because they refuse to move/act at all, get stuck into sprites or just ignores enemies nearby

absolute legend of a game, amazing for the nes