Overall this is a really good SRPG. I have cleared the light path in L1 and Light/True Light/Empire/Independent paths in L2, and have clocked in over 100 hours.
Pros:Original art by Satoshi Uruhshrara is goddess-tier. Like there are some sexy waifus ;-) and ridiculous but awesome shoulder pads for either gender. Great color contrast and thick dark lines... but if you're a pleb who doesn't get art and the concept of color contrast, you can always use the new crappy designs if you want ;-p
Character personalities are mostly likable and believable. Many of the "bad guys" aren't that evil when you learn more about them. Select any music style from any release of Langrisser.
Deep strategic combat with huge armies to manage. Of note is the mercenary system. 1 battle save (I would have preferred 2 but 1 is way better than none.) Branching storyline with differing objectives in battle depending on which faction you side with. You can grind if you want...
Cons:...but there is WAY too much grinding to get the perfect epilogue for all characters. 100 kills is doable but hard, especially when some characters join late game.
Mercenary AI is bad. Troops move in order of commander, but this often leads to Commanders that join later getting their troops cut off due to crowding. Also they can't understand things like walls and other unpassable roadblocks. This can be solved by manually moving all mercs but that takes a lot of time. Minor Characters/generic troops don't have the option for Urushihara art.

I'm claiming both Gene Pod ladies as my waifus...
For real, this is a great game who's developers clearly did a lot of research into ancient civilizations. Puzzles were hard when I played on Win 3.1 as a kid, but as an adult on Win 10 they are easier. The only bang-your head-against-a-wall puzzle is the stupid Anasazi arrow puzzle, which is so randomized. Otherwise it has a nice difficulty which makes you think, but isn't too hard. I owe my own interest in the Ancient Egyptians/Mayans to this game.

It's completely ridiculous, but so much fun. Basically this game ammounts to the hypothetical fights in prehistory and mythology eg "Who would win: 4 T-Rexes with lasers vs 2 Dragons with a miniguns and shotguns?" This mode eventually got old, but that's why there are challenges where you fight pre-made enemies with limited funds to use on your army. The descriptions for challenges are often hillarious. Plus there is prehistoric soccer. However, I wasn't a huge fan of the tower defense mode. Short and sweet.

I loved this game as a kid on my first PC. It helped that I am also a fan of the Dinotopia books Going back to it on DOSBox-X, it has not aged well. Controls are cumbersome. Eg when forging metal with Tok Timbu, it is so easy to click the wrong area, which trigger Tok to give me a voiced, unskippable lecture. This makes what should be a simple task take over 5 minutes. The art is nice. Voice acting is overall good-ok, but again, there should be a way to skip it as mentioned above. Music is mediocre.