The issue isn't that it's too hard, though it is. The issue is that it's fucking bullshit.

lacks multiplayer functionality

dear God there's so much stupid bullshit in this one.

The least shitty Tales game, however much that's worth!

I got this after my dog died, and after the grief wore off I realized I wasted 30 bucks

One of the ugliest things I've ever seen, and I'm including people. Avoid!

To classify any work of art — let alone a video game — as prophetic requires some degree of willful ignorance. Most "prophetic" works of fiction merely diagnose existing societal cancers that others are too naive to identify. MGS2 is an exception; a vision from the future that is more relevant in 2020 than in 2000. That's to say nothing of the gameplay, which is both restrictive and free: the illusion of choice perfectly encapsulated through ludonarrative progression. This might well be the best game ever made.

Rating is for the GBC version. It's good!

Very likely the best game on the NES.

An absolute failure of a game on every level. Eight terrible stories in one, each with the same dull, slow combat. The Action 52 of JRPGs.