I traded Naruto Clash of Ninja 3 for this game years ago at a Con and never played it until now. An always loved trope of mine is JRPGs in modern settings. I loved the premise, though dumb as hell if you analyze it hard enough, it was enough to keep me going until the end. What really stood out to me was the amount of animations within just standard dialogue. For a PS1 game, I didn't expect that much detail.


The battle system was pretty fun once I got the hang of it. Though, it felt limited because of how few of the guns differentiate themselves. My biggest complaint would have to go to the gun customization. It's maddening that it's treated as a one use item with no chance to think about what to use it for. The same could go for BP. I could use the BP to maximize damage on a gun, but then I could just use a tool to bring those BP over to the new gun, or I could take the passives on this gun and bring it over. It was very frustrating trying to plan out my upgrade path, especially on a blind play through because I didn't know when I would find "my" gun.

I think for me from a historical standpoint it's really cool what was done here, but can't see myself going back to this game ever. I hope that the second game rectifies some of these complaints and continues on with an otherwise intriguing story along with even more intriguing gameplay.