It looks really good!

Right now I’m just before going to get the Vespertine, and to be clear so far I’d still rate this game VERY highly it’s just one gripe that kind of pulls me out when it happens

I guess this applies to games before 16 bit era too idk why I wrote it like that but whatever

Easy path done :)

Don't get me wrong I really appreciate it too, I just think it could still be a little faster for how often you want to save - still way better than many JRPGs for sure

SMTV sort of has it, pressing d-pad left opens the save menu (at least in Vengeance on Xbox)

Could be better imo if instead of opening the save menu it just saved to a designated quick save slot though, because in that game you want to save every 5 seconds and constantly opening the menu gets old