This is a somewhat conservative production, but it's executed flawlessly.
For starters, it's battle-system is diverse enough to give you plenty of options in terms of tactics and planning. Yet it's logical and simple enough for anyone to achieve basic understanding in a few minutes.
The storyline hardly contains any previously unseen turns, but it's composed well and uses a lot of classical elements. You are the young hero and you are up against a corrupt state, fighting for a better society. Many themes are used throughout in the storyline and you never feel that something is being stretched too far or a point is being rubbed excessively in your face. You'll have to deal with romance, deception, war, bribery, corruption, political reality and time travelling just to name a few.
While the graphics are obviously dated, you're not left annoyed by their simple nature. If you play the game on a PlayStation2 and activate texture smoothing, you'll find it to be just pleasing.
The soundtrack is solid and appropriate and the theme songs are very beautiful.
I first played this game in 1999 after buying it used, but since then, I have completed it many times. This game is one of those RPG games, which doesn't require you to be some nerd who's into trolls and gnarfs in order to enjoy it. The game is not ambitious in production and it's no Final Fantasy, but for what it tries to be, it flawlessly succeeds.