I recall dying in the early stages a lot before deciding to spend some time trying to figure out the battle system in the tutorial... At any rate, it was a pretty fun (and very often challenging) game. Probably spent too much time trying to customise the characters' weapons and clothes.

Favourite part is undoubtedly the soundtrack, though that mostly--if not all--applies to the ones written by Tanaka. The Sakuraba tracks were good and fitting (most of them were for battle themes, so his style worked for the occasions), but the ones that made the game shine were Tanaka's, in my opinion.