This game was so great, I keep coming back to it. The story line was fantastic, the characters were lovable, the combat system's simple but deep. Then there's the ancient cave, which always promises to be a time sink every play through. This was one of the first games that ever had a retry mode where you could play it through again, and then if you beat it again you got the ancient cave mode which was great because you could use any characters you wanted in the ancient cave.
This game pulled on the emotions hard. Super great game.