Nice, but not all that.
The plot...seriously lacking. You choose a class, which you have four to pick from, then you decide their "work". I call it work not sure what else to call it. It is what you pick for your character and their family to be. Depending on what you pick depends on how much your family can help you out in later parts of the game. Then your character goes off, and I won't say what they do, but I will say that it gets rather repetitive. You do the same areas over and over again and sure they get a bit harder each time but still it's a pain in the back side big time!
The characters you in away need all four of the character classes on your team, especially when you get into the later parts of the game. Not to mention you need your whole town filled with people just so you can get the special items the "families" can give to "their" children and the use of their abilities like a forger and so on.
The use of the game boy advance as a controller has it's ups but the downs out way it by far. The ups are the use of the different map screens easier to find treasures and so on. However the tiny buttons and small space to work with when you're in the middle of a major fight can be crippling! Not to mention if your game boy advance runs out of battery power you're SCREWED!
The game play is easy to pick up on I mean you have it in one go really there isn't much to learn. However, if you go as a single player it's not to bad though hard as you get farther into the game. If you go as more then one I suggest you pick up three other players other wise you're in for some serious problems, and make sure your healer is fast and keeps an eye on all of you!