Holy crap. This game was addicting.
This game does, however, have a good story. In fact, I was so completely drawn into it that the battles became annoying to me because I just wanted to find out what happened next! I found myself MASS-creating two types of units to wipe out maps just to see the ending.
The voice acting in this game is good, the voices fit the characters almost perfectly.
The graphics are pretty good as well, the character portraits can actually be seen BREATHING (well, their chests move), which is different from what I've ever seen, not that it really adds anything other than aesthetics.
Overall, I have to say it was a pretty good game, the gameplay wasn't too fun for me, because I'm not really a strategy-type gamer (more of a SRPG, because there's a real big difference). The storyline is where the game shines though. I thought it was very original and every day was a piece of a puzzle that added to the grand scheme of things.
And yes, it reminded me a lot of Harry Potter.
Anyways, I'm a fan of NIS and I think that's partially why I enjoyed the game. It's definitely worth a shot if you're into strategy games like Starcraft and the like. Good thing is you can change the difficulty every stage, although it was pretty easy to breeze by every stage on difficult.(except for one or two)