From the story and style typical Square ...

... And it does not matter if my favorite game company is only given at the bottom right on the edge.
Only when loading, starting and playing Odin Sphere of experienced players will immediately notice the parallel to Final Fantasy. The sound always acts appropriately and imposing as you would not know otherwise, and the story is entangled and epic. Moreover, the narrative style that everything "just" stories from books are quite interesting and draws clear stretches between the various storylines.
Because to choose from many different characters (which must be of course only gradually unlocked), all of which combines the same story and reproduces from the respective perspective.
The gameplay I personally easy to get used to, because although everyone should quickly master the 2D fighting (especially the "older" gamer like me ^^), it however with several opponents to simplem Button Smashing and especially bosses very hectic will quickly to heal or cast a spell, which has often frustrated me personally.
Also, I'm not necessarily a fan of the food-to-level up system has become, but it was like the Alchemy system (combined from simple one-and-one to several Ingredentien sequentially) and prepare food.
The biggest criticisms are first of all the company soon outgrew expectant Inventory (quasi the opposite newer Harvest Moon bags) and the lack of variety.
Why this? Very easily. You choose a character and then an area. In the area you fight your way through several sections, find things, fighting, combined kämpoft, collects, fighting, eating and always fighting on the more or less the same way. I mean clearly, complete Street Fighter- and Tekken Move lists can not implement it, but more than just top-down-straight would certainly penetrate beings. In any case you come afterwards in another area and so it goes all the time on ..... then the next figure, and you will again and again to the one and the same locations with the same opponents and come only from time to time All said and done something else is to illuminate the story from all sides.
One should not misunderstand me, because everyone plays the game, will want to know how everything is interlinked guaranteed, but the player will (most likely like me) in the third person think "again the volcano, there need I the potion and the enemy to be fought "," now I'm back in the ice mountains and then comes the "and" Oh, back to the underworld ".
In any case, you can Odin Sphere recommend if you have a lot of patience and sometimes a little more sophisticated and complex story-2D-3D platforming adventure moshing game addiction.