take away the terrible cutsenes and bad humor, and this game is more than worth the 20 dollars

User Rating: 8 | Infinite Undiscovery X360
a great rpg for a great price i would say. although the story is a little weird, you get used to it after it being drilled into your head constantly. even though it's 2 discs, the game is relatively short for an rpg (although i didn't do much or any of the side quests). it's fairly easy, although you'll find yourself weakening after hulling through a dungeon for an hour, and then sadly die after going the wrong way and have to start it all over again. but those are in the worst cases. in battle, you'll either get cheap shotted, obliterated, or obliterating. there's really no in between. the battle mechanics are a little on the side of button mashing, but not mindlessly. everything's in an easy to reach place, no scavenging through menus to find the right ability or anything of that nature, because everything you can do is in those four buttons. although, you will have to set abilities before battle, as well as equipment, and party members (only in towns). you can have two abilities equiped at one time, and can be used by either holding A or B. the ability synced to the A button, does less damage and costs less mp then the one synced to the B button, allowing for balancing or overpowering. your characters will automatically obtain abilities via leveling up, but sometimes it's hard to notice when you do since it tells you in a tiny log box in the top left hand corner. money is mostly not a problem, and what kind of equipment you have doesn't make a huge difference, but going through the game with you starter supplies just isn't right. this game is all about looking sweet and pulling off sweet moves. abilities look pretty bad ass, and do large capacities of damage. when you need to get yourself healed (or someone else in the party healed) all you have to do is press Y. and that's all. the character in your party that is best at healing will automatically start casting the second they can (although is a problem when they're being mauled by enemies, since when you get hit in the middle of casting it stops). basically attacking is done with A and B, and mixes of A and B such as AB or AAB or AAAB, but these are all i really know about. b is basically you 'special' attack, and a is you normal attack. AB sends you foe flying in the air, AAB smacks them hard on the ground, and AAAB basically just does a **** load of hits. the transition between sheathing and unsheathing you weapon can get annoying sometimes, especially when you party members are getting attacked and aren't fighting back because they have they're weapon sheathed. towns and kingdoms in the game are impressive and on most occasion fancy and cool looking, and each have they're own personal setting. one city is in the desert, one in a polar region, one is an underground fortress with lots of plant life, and another is just a plain log cabin filled town, but each and every town shares the same sound track, which is catchy but mostly annoying. anyways, good game and definitely worth the price, just don't pay any attention to the cutscenes, they're really not good.