Mystic Ark feels like a weird, dreamy cousin to The 7th Saga—same vibe, but way more surreal. You wake up in some bizarre world with no memory, just a vague sense you gotta get home. The whole thing's got this eerie, almost lonely atmosphere where every new area feels like stumbling into someone else's forgotten dream.

Combat's familiar if you've played 7th Saga, but the monster designs here are wild—half of them look like they escaped from a Salvador Dalí painting. And the music? Haunting in that classic SNES RPG way. You'll spend the first hour just soaking in the strangeness before the real quest even kicks in.

Fair warning though: the translation patch helps, but some dialogue still reads like it was filtered through three languages first. Still, there's something oddly charming about its rough edges.