Ever wish you could stumble onto some lost Sega Genesis RPG that never got its due back in the day? Pier Solar feels exactly like that—like digging up a dusty cartridge with weirdly polished sprites and a story that goes way deeper than you'd expect from a 16-bit game.

The first hour throws you into this cozy little village with these three friends, and before long you're sneaking into forbidden ruins, dodging traps, and fighting off monsters with a turn-based system that actually makes you think. The music? Absolute bangers—like someone remastered classic JRPG tracks but kept all the crunchy synth charm.

What surprised me was how much personality the dialogue has. It’s not just "go save the world" boilerplate; there’s banter, dumb jokes, and moments where characters actually feel like friends. And yeah, the pixel art’s gorgeous—especially the spell effects, which go way harder than anything on the Genesis had a right to.

If you’ve ever wasted weekends grinding in Phantasy Star or Shining Force, this’ll hit that same itch but with way fewer obscure moon-language translations. Just don’t expect it to hold your hand.