Honestly, I love this game. Crystalis will always be my all-time favorite RPG, ever. It was released at the tail end of the NES era. It followed Adventures of Link but preceded LTTP. It was nice looking, graphics-wise, it was fun, it was smooth and best of all, it was addiciting.

To me, the game was the perfect length and had the perfect mixture of leveling up, real-time combat and storyline.

They did a remake for the GBC but it was the same game with some souped up graphics and the menu system, IMO, was worse than the original. It also seemed sluggish.

I've been playing through it again recently and it's just as fun as the first time through.

I'd say that Crystalis was superior to both NES Zelda's and was alot more involving than most of the 16x16 RPG's of the period. (DW, LoZ, etc..)

Anywho, if had a quarter of the talent that PM had, I would devote my entire life to remaking this great game. And if I ever won the lottery, there would be a Crystalis 2.