Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
Is the first one any good? Are the pervy elements tolerable for those who dont care for that sort of thing?
I'm not super far in - only about 4 or 5 hours - but so far, there's been exactly zero pervy elements. I don't think the game is nearly as naughty as it has been made out to be.
The game itself is different. It's not a tactical RPG like FFT or Tactics Ogre. The board are small and all the same, with a large part of the strategy coming from setting up your characters to help each other. It's got the typical Idea Factory combat system, where you get AP and can spend it to move or make multiple attacks, using certain attacks together creates a bigger, more impressive attack. This works across characters, so linking attacks together is pretty important. I think it works a bit better than the Blazing Souls games.
There's a small dating sim aspect to it. You play the game in five generations, where each generation has three potential girls you can marry. The choices you make during each generation will affect which one you end up with. For the next generation, you play the offspring of that combination and will somehow be different depending on who the mother was. Agarest Zero is similar, but I think it's only two generations.
So far, it's pretty fun and occasionally pretty challenging, but there's a lot of filler. I hear Zero is better about that, which would increase my enjoyment a lot. I like it. It's not an instant classic, but I'd say it's above average by Compile Heart standards.
I think I read that you can unlock a version of the first Agarest game in Zero after you beat the game. It apparently lacks all the girls you can marry or something. I'm not totally sure.
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! Who here is picking up the LE? 
