Great world, fantastic cast, a lovely sense of melodrama and an ambition that scares me to this day. So much of this game feels like the absolute peak of what you could do with a 16-bit console and has only gotten better as the years have transformed technical context into aesthetic. The Mode 7 world map blew my mind and the opera scene may be one of my favorite things ever. I started replaying it recently and so far it's been incredible.