Absolutely incredible game, improves in near every aspect from Hotel Dusk and the some. Story was great and the writing truly felt like a conversation people would have (excluding the plot crazy convos) and the characters were great too, shoutouts to Tony. Though I did enjoy Hotel Dusk's cast a bit more. I thought giving the player multiple ways to solve some puzzles to be something that I wished more games had and I'm glad this game had at least a little of that. And that soundtrack good Lord the soundtrack, some of the best the DS has to offer. And once again
KYLE MOTHERFUCKING HYDE BABY

This was probably one of the more unique and fun srpgs I've played in a while. I found the card system and using skills in conjunction with unions to be very interesting and pretty fun, shoutouts to Gravity Chaos for being op. Story was very ok in the first half but really picks up once you make it to the empire's land and get to do the funny war lord things. I do wish some things were a bit more clear (getting items, other characters, etc). I also didn't find many characters aside from Yggdra and Milanor to be very interesting or appealing, though I could've missed some extra scenes in my playthrough. Definitely play the psp version if you want to give this a try and not pull your hair out at the GBA version, I only recommend this if you want something different from an srpg and want a fun challenge.