To many, this game is regarded as one of the best RPGs ever made. Those people are not me. Yeah, Grandia II has a relatively good story, but... dear lord, who thought up the game play? Alright, it wasn't that bad, but certainly didn't float my boat. This game should be called "Linear Anime RPG", that's the taste it left in my mouth anyways. It's colorful. Hey, it may even be cute! But it's not fun. Maybe I'm just getting tired of the whole traditional RPG system, but this game was just a damn chore, I must say! It took me a while to pinpoint what it was about this game that pissed me off so much, but I eventually figured it out. You have no freedom! You just wander around following the preset course... getting from point A to point B and killing all the monsters in between... lots of boring, repetitive monsters, that give you no satisfaction when you kill them. To make it worse, the game punishes you when you try and run away from the monsters by giving them a position advantage when the battle starts. Dag nabbit! I wouldn't play this game over again for $100. Millenia is hot and acts somewhat horny most of the time... I enjoyed that. The voice acting was pretty good as far as games go, kinda overdone sometimes on Ryudo's part. If I were forced to find a paperclip mixed in a bathtub full of puked crayon and spiders, I would be like "Hey, this reminds me of Grandia II!" I guess what made me mad was that there's no real map or anything to explore... well, there is a map, but not for traveling on, just a system to choose your destination, and even then, it's not much of a choice... it's either go back or progress. I started this game last February and just finished it a week ago (middle of November), and it took me 30 hours to beat the game... that probably tells you exactly how I feel. Why did I play this game all the way through? I don't know. Maybe I figured it would justify my badmouthing it. I'd rather get bashed in the head repeatedly with a flaming shovel covered in grade A ringified elephant stool than sit before a TV with this optical nerve pin cushion of an excuse for fun on it. That Ryudo! He thinks he's so cool! I could get the hottest girls of ultimate good and ultimate evil to fight over me too! Ummm... you just wait and see! Stupid waste of pixels... thinks he's all that. If I saw him at the store I'd be like "Hey dude, I think Neverland is on fire." and he'd be like "Who the hell are you?" and then he'd probably punch me in the face and then finish me off with his sword and set up camp near my dead body so he could bang his mistresses and then brag about it to his bird. Go ahead and tap into your watered down wine my dear! I'll be behind my computer weeping like a fairy. This game gets 4 / 10 stars.