This felt like a huge step down from Circle of the Moon in all ways but visual. Visually, this is one of the best looking GBA games ever made. It looks pretty incredible. Gameplay wise I found it moved very sluggish compared to CotM. I felt like a lot of the rooms in the castle felt way too big to navigate so you'll spend a lot of time tapping the dash button to move through levels. I didn't find the spellbook system all that interesting and felt like a step down from the DSS. The biggest offender here is the music which sounds AWFUL, this is the only game in the collection that actually sounds better to play in the original quality instead of the high quality mode. Seriously, what happened? The blown out and fuzzy notes sound like synths I'd hear on a lo fi black metal album. It just didn't sound catchy or affecting at all. Somehow sounds worse than the Gameboy Adventure games. Skip this and head straight to Aria of Sorrow.