Tales of Phantasia

The Good
This game has if not the best, than one of the best graphics, Towns looked like they should, the graphics really set the mood.

The music composition for this game will blow you away. There is no better composing team than that of Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura.

The battle system is unique, while it is action like Secret of Mana, but still the attacks are randomly generated by the programming, like Final Fantasy.

This game pushed the Super Famicom to its limits with memory, music programming, and graphics. It is a 48 Megabit cartridge, Star Ocean is the only other RPG that has this cartridge.

The Bad
The AI sometimes got annoying, there was nothing worse than casting a spell that was of the strength of a monster you were fighting (casting ice spell on an ice creature, yeah that would be the day).

The programming was good, except for fighting Gnome, where you have not even half a second to attack him before you cant hit him again, or when Maxwell can kill you with a molecular attack by driving right over everyone.

The speech system was particularly annoying at times.

The fact that the geniuses behind the game quit the company after it was released, and the went to Tri-Ace.

The Bottom Line
This game is unique in many ways, the battle system in particular. Any RPG player should play this, its got amazing everything, for a Super Famicom game.