It's interesting so far. the difficulty curve is a bit questionable though . .I played it on Game Pass PC but unfortunately it would randomly crash during gameplay. whats worst. . it would crash as soon as I finish a boss fight. and that's where I draw the line. plus it's leaving at March 1. I'd love to officially own this game even if I have to start over again. I was only at 8 hours in so not that far thankfully.

Well . .I Did Enjoy the unique Mechanics. like No weapon break. Magic costing HP. Two MC's at the same time different units. However the bad sides. . .It's Painfully Slow . . Even though you have speedup . .Using Speed up on GBC/Nes game is actually worst. . because It an go SO fast you'd miss what just happened . . .and it's honestly not good enough to justify how tedious grinding is. Your Attacks ALWAYS Miss like 70% of the time! That's even Worse!. and finally After I got to Chapter 4 . .I was able to do Alm's 3 maps Fine thanks to Silque's Warp. However Celica's Map after literrally dealing with a Shaman summoning 5/10 different Enemies esp in a swamp map that saps your hp. I was Done. This was Also my second FE game I started with Shadow Dragon DS And I did like the game but I'm done. This is the game I wish I turn on Easy Mode for a proper exp rate. :( Atleast I experienced What this game is like. Hopefully Echoes turns out better with the Qol's. I really liked the game until what the flaws I justed stated. Lol

To be honest, I. did had this game for 6 years it came out but I never beated it by then because well the exploration Frequent backtracking all over the place especially for sidequests is really jank.
Story and characters were really Hallow. Literally the only characters with development is Emmerson and Relia*since she's centered around the story.
Reused SO3/SO4 music.
You can move around on cutscenes
Dialogues during battles where sound effects is so loud you can barely hear what theyre saying or have time to read the text lol
Battle skills are copy paste From SO3/SO4 Lol
20-30 hours long altho I don't mind too much.

However those are the bad points. heres my personal semi biased Good points of the game.
1.Battle System is really fun I really enjoy maining Fidel,Anne,Victor the most,but Emmerson is great. Altho. some bosses are Health sponges.
2.Really nice Graphics! it's really stunning as this is was a ps3 game to early ps4 era.
3.Good music altho it reuses some but.it has it own osts.
4.Reverse Rush Is cool,Ethereal blast is powerful.
5.Item Creation is actually fun. Well sometimes. I kinda like So2s more lol
6. Challengingly fun
That's all I can say. I Like the game But as a Star ocean. I do Wish it could've been so much better. Hopefully Divine Force Turns out better.