It's an ok game, but there are waaaaay too many cliches in it. I know some are unavoidable, but they could have used them a bit more sparingly. I did like the characters and the game itself tops 60 hours to finish (not long, but tons of time-consuming puzzles). Time is a big factor to me in RPGs. If they take awhile to beat, I'm happy, so that was quite nice.
Plus, they also evened out the difficulty. In Tales of Eternia, the last boss was too freaking difficult for a required enemy, and annoyingly resilient. They seem to have fixed this very nicely. In all, not a bad game.
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My favorite part of the game, hands down, was when you return to Iselia on Disc 2 and Genis tells off the Mayor. It's so awesome, and kind of original. I've never played a game where you got kicked out of your home town and returned like that. I literally yelled, "FINALLY!!!!!".
I'm waiting for a main character to get kicked out of his/her town and have the town get attacked right after it happens. Then the townspeople will be like "Save us!", and the character will be like, "Sorry, I can't! You banished me from the village. I can't come back.". Then the character can just walk away. That would be my ideal banishment. Literally make it impossible to ever return.