I used to play the hell out of 1 and 2 back in the PS2 days, but I haven’t touched the series beyond that, and haven’t even played 1/2 much in the last 10 years.

How would you rate 4 in comparison? I noticed it was on sale in the Switch eShop, and I’d love to have one of the series to play on the go.

What I loved about the ones I played:

• Story had a good balance of comedy and heart
• Flexible and fun character building, with decent enough defined classes to get you started
• Tons of post-game/side content (I didn’t like every piece of it, but I liked how much there was to try.)
• CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF EARTH
• Perfect geochains, though I was usually too smoothbrain for it.

What I didn’t like:

• Item world, IIRC worse in 1 than 2?
• Adell’s siblings
• Demon court thing?