Games based on anime series are, as a rule, pretty damn painful. Slayers Wonderful for PS1 was a wonderful example of this, a Final Fantasy VII ripoff with subpar graphics, a crazy encounter rate, and not much fun (but very pretty cutscenes). Course, most people say this describes FFVII itself pretty well, but that’s another pointless argument best reserved for Jumpstation.
Anyways, anime games suck. A lot. Fortunately, this Slayers game was released before the anime came out. So, really, this is a game based on a manga series. Games based on manga seem to be pretty good, only no one’s ever heard of them. Played any Mahoujin Guru-Guru lately? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Course, this means that this game has no rockin’ Megumi Hayashibara songs or anything, but I guess no game is truly perfect. The game seems to be (from a very quick first glance) a pretty standard RPG, with serviceable graphics and whatnot.