[Rem]

You know oddly enough despite all the awesomeness of the FF franchise and other good RPG games (which I can't think of titlewise but yeah you know what I mean) one of my absolute favorite RPGs I've played was a little-known game called Shadow Hearts. XD
I loooved the gameplay, I love the timed thing for shots (hard to describe but you had this wheel thing that you could hit in certain spots for strong attacks or defense or effects) there was a sanity meter for your character and he would lose sanity ... I loved the monster and character design and there were a lot of little things in the game that were really cool and immersed me a whole lot in this world - every single item (I mean EVERY single item) had a description and picture you could pull up (I mean a nice painted picture), every monster could be accessed in this monster gallery so you could just go through and look at these things and read about them, and there were little easter eggs and such throughout the game...and it was actually pretty creepy! One level was in a mental hospital and there were these really ....creepy monster women that split up the middle to make giant mouths and.. xD

Sadly, it lost mega points in something i absolutely must have, and that was story...and I think I can firmly blame that (I -think-) on the translation. Oh my god, I don't know if it was the same in the Japanese version but the dialogue freaking SUCKED OMG So lame, corny, stilted and ughhhh
And the story was kind of interesting! I mean it looked like it was pretty interesting, the dialogue and story translation though really made it blow :(