Not in 'grind moar' or 'don't get unlucky' hard, but actually needing to use the right combination of your weapons and to block attacks. This is important as, like most Atlus published things, combat is fucking hard. This makes smart use of the 3 weapons you can use at a time and swapping at the right time an interesting battle mechanic. The various weapon classes (Sword, Axe, Spear, Knuckle and Drill, with your really sucky hammer as backup if you manage to break everything you equiped) all behave differently, with greatly differing hitboxes (spears can't hit anything not 2 PCs directly in front of you with their standard attack (and the other 2 do low damage and also have awkward hitboxes), attack rather slowly and with average power, but a large number of foes that would otherwise kick your ass easily at close range lack the ability to effectively counter it), Drills have a move that can lock foes into hit stun and deal massive damage while they can't fight back, but have long animations needed to start the move, and leave you vulnerable to anything you didn't lock in (also, shit range and can't hit anything JUST off the ground), swords hit an arc in front of you (allowing you to reliably hit flying stuff), but have short range ect. The controls are a little odd, but work after the first few encounters. games (though not spam friendly like them, and unlike the one ported to the GBA there, this runs OK), with the action based combat taking place on a 2d plain and you can move (Control pad) attack (a) block (Note: B is normally set to block, but also uses magic after you select it with the r button, the selection can be done during a pause), or swap weapons (L). Similar to a 2d fighter or the early Tales of. The combat is not half bad (It's a JRPG and is mostly combat, so it better not be), and has some interesting unique bits.

*face-cut in* It forges a woman!), with silly characterizations on everyone else as well. The PC's mentor is a massive ham, making everything EPIC (A hammer is not just for forging weapons. The dialoge (as expected of an Atlus translation, though I doubt it is ALL their creation) is hilarious. Much to my shock, the game is actually sort of good. I was expecting an average JRPG with some lesbian gags that I could write a snarky review about (that would give me at least a buck for an hour of half fun). So I went to buy Custom Robo Arena (loved the GCN game, and the price just dropped to 5 bucks, am also enjoying), and I decided to buy this as well on a whim (seeing as how EBgames was going to stop dealing with GBA games soon) as I had heard some things about it (The first, which I haven't played, is best known for the line 'No no! I, uh, kiss other girls all the time!', which is on the back of the box, so.

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