I'm very ambivalent as to whether I'd reccomend it to anyone. One one hand it's it sucked me in, and I've put in 20 hours so far, and I'm nearing the end of the storyline. What can I say about this game? The gamplay is old, but if you like that kind of thing, it's fun. It's on the easy side, except for one or two unexpected sudden bumps in difficulty, especially related to airship fights. On the other hand, the story is so ridiculously bad, I have no words. Not only is it a cliché, but it's a series of really bad clichés. It's completly uninvolved, and you will not care for any characters whatsoever. It seems to me every event was written from the motto "what is the stupidest thing that could possibly happen here?". I'm not kidding, I found myself praying there would be no more story after only a few hours, and I maintain my view that the game would be better with blank dialogue boxes, so the player could insert their own story, then at least, I could put in something funny, or pretend something interesting was going on. I really cannot stress how bad, uninvolved and unmotivated the storyline is. Seriously, not one single character has more than a single speck of motivation for doing anything, and almost every scenario boils down to, "will you do this for us?" "okay, I guess I'll do it". There's no point to anything, and while true that storylines in RPGs have never been anything special, this one is just atrociously bad.
That said, the gameplay is competent, although on the easy side. The encounter rate is pretty high, as would be expected from something trying to emulate an older school of RPG game. I'd say maybe give it a go if you can live with a storyline that will make not know whether to laugh or cry over the fact that anyone could write something this bad. No, seriously, I actually laughed out loud at some of the horrible, horrible lines in this game. And I very seldomly laugh out loud. It's that bad.