Final Fantasy Legend EasyType is one of those Game Boy RPGs that feels way bigger than it has any right to be. You start off picking your party—humans, mutants, or monsters—and right away, the mutants had me hooked with their random ability gains. Nothing like watching your fighter suddenly learn fire magic mid-battle.

The world’s split into these floating towers, each with its own weird theme (one minute you’re in a cyberpunk city, next you’re fighting fish people). Battles are simple but surprisingly tactical—monsters evolve when you feed them meat, and weapons break after too many uses, so you’re always juggling resources. The "EasyType" version tweaks some of the original’s brutal difficulty, but it still doesn’t hold your hand.

It’s janky in that classic Game Boy way, but there’s something about the pacing—short dungeon crawls, cryptic NPC hints, that weirdly satisfying *clunk* of the battle menu—that makes it weirdly addictive. Just don’t expect a sweeping story like later Final Fantasy games; the charm’s in the grind.