obviously the surface elements - the basic look of the game, the cast (both your party and the extended populace), the core combat loop, the pathos of the anime melodrama, the music - all those things that everybody loves are excellent and rewarding and cute and funny and lived in, but i was just as struck by the nuances of the game's politics and changing relationship to its setting. the somewhat revanchist prelapsarian (and post-apocalyptic, post-scarcity) community of Tazmily eventually falling for the lure of capital's grotesquely preserved, nostalgic yet extratemporal spectre is so smart, there's a real tension between the progressive and regressive/bourgeois impulses of the text that's much more interesting than if it were "just" "anticapitalist"...not to mention the way the second half of the game is always tying narrative and ludic progress with some kind of loss, be it the dramatic hollowing-out of the heart and soul from your community or the very literal disappearance of characters.... had some wrinkles with it but the whole thing is so complete and singular despite its many imitators that it entirely won me over <333