Most people are busy playing SFIV but I spent my money on SO4 instead. AH, don't yell at me and call me crazy -- I love SFIV and I have played it. But I have been eager for SO4 since I'm a fan of the SO series. I will make this one statement: This is NOTHING like SO3 -- THANK GOD! I really hated that game and couldn't finish it. Let me tell you how I feel towards this new, beautiful game.

I'm really not a graphic whore but let me say this: SO4 makes The Last Remnant look like the biggest POS ever. SO4 has such beautiful graphics and they do NOT lag at all, unlike The Last Remnant. I am very, I mean VERY, pleased with that. I was honestly worried that this game would have that same problem.

The dubbing is pretty GOOD, unlike that thing called SO3. The boys are definitely going to love Reimi because she is incredibly ADORABLE. I'm not going to waste my breath talking about Edge or I'll get into a major spazzgasm about him.

And for anyone who decides to pick up this game, let me clarify something that people don't seem to understand about Lymle. Lymle is the little, loli girl who has a bad habit of saying "kay?" after ALMOST EVERY SENTENCE. She also gives nicknames to the characters. I read somewhere that people believed this was some bullshit that the American game has but it isn't -- she says "yo" at the end of all her sentences in the Japanese version so their translation for that is "kay". In terms of the nickname, she DOES give them nicknames in the Japanese version so that isn't some stupid thing they just stuck in there, 'kay?

From what I've seen, the translations are staying pretty true to the Japanese. I am sad that we don't have the anime faces during the battles and the menu but the CG faces didn't end up bothering me too much.

In terms of the battle system, it really sticks to how all the good SO ones have previously been -- but with a faster pace, of course. At first, it feels pretty slow and it can be aggravating. But the more you level up, the more fun it can be. But I need to complain about this: even though the monsters are visible on the fields and dungeons, you'll find yourself bumping into them more than running away. It really annoyed me when I was doing one of the dungeons, holy SHIT. I guess you don't have to worry about leveling up.

I'm pretty addicted to the game, even though I haven't had too much time to play it. I'm sitting here at anime club wanting to go home to play my game, haha. But really, in my opinion, this game is really good. Only good games really get my attention in the beginning. I hope you RPG lovers will give this game a chance.