Though I do find myself getting lost every now and again - like I've missed an important line of dialogue somewhere and there isn't a clear indication on where to go or what to do.  It's nice to wander about though...

I hypocritically caved. It's pretty fun. Got to the point where the party finally comes back together and shit gets real. Only complaints are nitpicks like the save guy default cursor being on 'no' which gets me about half the time. I want to save. That's why I'm talking to save guy. And that there's no visual for buffs on your party. That turned me off being a unique snowflake and using salve maker since I didn't want to accidentally miss the quick message the game gives you when dispensary wears off. A shame since spamming free ethers was pretty neat.

Music seems pretty quiet too. But that's coming off DQ9 as my last game which let actually turn it up to 11((Ok, '5') and drain my battery like mad.

Currently running Ranger/Merchant(Need a new bow pretty bad), Hero, Blackmage/elementalist and Bard/white mage. The game was tricky early on. It had a harp that was twice as good as everything else for sale and bribed me into playing bard. Now I'm STILL using that harp and it sucks, but for once, the bard carries it's weight outside a mmo with it's awesome buffs.

Thank you for not developing this, Square-enix.  It'll most likely be better that way.

The bosses level up with you, so grinding is kind of useless unless you're grinding for jewels. Some jobs have very useful final skills that can be game breaking, so you really want those jewels. There are also some pieces of equipment that really benefit from upgrading. The dagger the princess comes with (King's Dagger?) is one of the best weapons in the game.

Example: merchants have a skills that allows them to base damage on the amount of money you possess. There is a minigame you can use to earn huge amounts of money if you have the patience. You do the math.

As for the story, it's like a trip to 1990. Some things only make sense if you're using 8-bit RPG logic, characters are barely developed and the game uses as many clichés as possible.

Basically, it's nostalgia with pretty graphics, best played on a lazy Sunday afternoon while munching on brightly coloured cereal.

It sounds like an oldschool JRPG but with a lot of the slow/pointless/irritating stuff, like grind, taken out. Is that the case?

Or is it oldschool to the point of having grind?

In general from the early previews I also got the idea that the game had a lot of addition by subtraction, in a sense, as well.

Hmm. This sounds rather good actually. Though how is the story? I imagine it's very light-hearted, but how light-hearted are we talking here? Pokemon?