If a game supplies a support character, you can be sure that you're going to need them at some point, unless you grind to the point where you can kill most things within the space of five minutes. xD
How can anyone hate Priel?! She had an incredible voice! The only character that was more amusing than Priel was Nikolai, I think. Toph in LA2 wasn't quite as amusing, unfortunately...
Evil fairies? That isn't something you see very often...I wonder why the third game wasn't picked up. From what I can gather, the first two have something of a cult following, and games like that always attract modest sales, and most of the instalments get localised...which is weird, when you consider other major players don't.
I enjoy a good story in an RPG, but the problem is most RPGs these days don't have good stories (in fact, the only one I've played recently with a good, original story is Xenoblade) so I tend to go for humour now. SRPGs are probably my second-favourite type of video game, yeah. FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Disgaea...anything that devours hours like chocolate buttons. Most games only last about 10 or less hours these days, so it's nice to get your money's worth. In the case of Disgaea you can do terrifying amounts of damage as well. xD