A welcome change to the traditional RPG.
You start of your mission as Sly Boots (yes that is his real name), and have to run errends for the local inhabitents of your town. This is mainly low level stuff but as the story progresses it gets really interesting. This truly feels like an epic RPG storyline where you not only must save worlds but must save the universe. Not only the Universe but multiple universes. How is that for pressure?
It never loses its sence of humor though. It somehow manages the balence between a serious rpg, and being consistantly funny very well. It never seems to be trying to hard but is naturally funny. This also helps from the panaple of unique charactars that you meet along the way. These are the most unique i have ever seen in an RPG, period. You party will contain an old washed up superhero, scientist, smartass robot, and a planet... yes a planet with millions of people inhabited on it. Which you can visit yourself at any time.
The voice acting is superb and the graphics are servicable. Of course if you were to play it today you would notice they were fairly outdated, but it is easy to look beyond since everything else about it is so strong. The areas also unique and varied.
That is not to say it is without fault. In fact there are some aspects which really stop this from being a truly epic game. Firstly you are going to re-tread the same places many many times. Just walking around going from one place to another. I really wish they would have just cut this out because you will find you have to load scenes fairly often as well. If they would have wrapped up the dialog and story into a more solid playsystem the would created something unmatched.
Besides this there is alot ot like about this game. It is filled with such charm and character that any fan of RPG's should try if they can find a copy of it somewhere.