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...and I'm(more or less) done Ar Tonelico I.
Took me almost exactly 50 hours(last save at 49 hours 48 minutes), and I still haven't 100%-ed it(the things I could without doing the other path, that is) - but after spending some 7 hours yesterday grathmelding, making money, recrystallizing and grinding for items, I decided to get it over with.
So, was it a good game?
...not really. Story wasn't that great, some interesting characters were poorly developed, the pacing was bad, and the gameplay was really horrible in some aspects.
Did I enjoy it?
Every single second of it. Even when it made me mad.
It's a game with a soul, and the kind of innocence that's long gone from western rpgs.
And it has Misha.
Pretty much only single thing that annoyed by the end was that Lyner never expressed any kind of feelings towards Misha(whose path I vehemently followed) - even when the time came to choose between her and Shurelia, he only motivated his decision by "I promised to go with her". Between this and his actions earlier it felt like Misha was stuck in one-sided relationship with him. There really was a serious lack of any kind of emotional conclusion to their relationship. For a game with such an amount of sexual innuendo, I expected at least a kiss at the end.