For one of the first of it's kind it's really rough on a lot of edges, mostly noting the non-working spells and your party member flailing their attack in the air if their target is dead, and the starting difficulty curve is quite a steep hill to go up. With it's flaws, I can't simply hate it so much. The only times I were really annoyed were the backtracking fetch quests that you get in the middle of the game, and after that it picks up right at the water temple. Though I would imagine the remakes on PS1/PSP/GBA are the ways to play as they fix up a lot of old game issues, but for an experience where you got controller on one hand and guide book on the other, it's been a swell adventure for my liking.

Yet like you're good to skip it just jump to IV if you wanna.