Well, its my least favorite and from what I've seen online the long time FM fans generally like it the least, but for the people who had that as their first FM game(and given it was the first FM game in english, that is a lot of people) it is their fave. Honestly its not a bad game at all, it just kind of different by FM standards in a couple ways. I mean, I did both story lines all the way through(btw, i don't remember the second one being anywhere near as hard as pat is suggesting, but it has been... god lord a decade and a half since I played it?) so on its own its a great game... in a series of games that are even better(i beat FM1 like 3 times before it even got fully translated on the SNES).