What makes this game so bad?

Is it the characters?

I don't think it was the characters. The problems were with the game length (barely 10 hours) and the bad AI in battle.

The problems were with the game length (barely 10 hours) and the bad AI in battle.

Lies. The game is roughly 15-20+. The AI is okay but the mages tend to screw up. People hate the game for making it so short whilst butchering Rebirth's battle system. I personally liked it though....

Anything under 40 hours for an RPG is criminally short. It shows lazyness on the developpers' part.

If you're so eager to see the end of the game, why bother playing it at all? Just log onto youtube, watch the damned credits roll and stop sending clear messages to the gaming industry about how you don't give a damn about actually playing a game and only care about beating it without any real challenge.

Actually, the game would only be about 3-4 hours, but you spend roughly a half an hour between each town/event/dungeon because the world map is so large and you run into so many enemies.

I beat the game in 13 hours and that's with little knowledge of Japanese back then.

i beat it in 16 hours and that was with exploring te secret dungeon some...

really the story itself is expected to be about 10-15 hour range, assuming yer not power grinding the whole game.
but that was my experience, ^^

The game was bad because it was generic. Walk from point A to point B. Village. Walk. Village. Almost no dungeons.

End of story.

isnt that mainstream gaming for modern gamers? :p

But are the characters themselves actually popular ? I know Caius and another girl have cameo in Hearts, and lots of people seem to want at least him in Versus...

they arent that popular sadly, caius is known as the unique hero for his latent ability...(spoiler) and that being his transformation in his leyman form...aka werewolf like form :p
(well the term used in game was lycanth i believe....)

that and c'mon! caius has paw shoes!!! :D
i totally wish i had a pair>_<

personally, i'd like to see tilkis and aria over caius and rubia though...they were a better pair^^'