I would also highly recommend going through The Silver Case beforehand if you haven't already

PS2 for visuals and audio quality, DS for extra puzzle content. It's worth playing regardless of the version, though.

The fact this yet lives certainly explains why some of the guys working on it were talking to me about it in-depth for ages after the original production company went under and then very suddenly went silent, ha. I thought SE had scared 'em off. Must have been after the revival...

I've seen these in person before! Definitely neat but probably not worth the price at any point in time

XIII-2 respect, hell yeah.

Even ignoring the Suda slander, using absolute terms like "bad design" to talk about games really just seems like an attempt to shut down discussion on the work entirely. I remember Drakengard being talked about like this when Nier:A first came out.