Depends on your tastes really. RPG fans, like myself, appreciated the card system and the encounter system. And also the ARPG fans are pleased too since you're moving around in battle choosing where and when to implement your cards and how you are going to do so. Not to mention the story, if you do not play this and jump right into KH II, you will be very confused. (Sora had to take a nap for a year? WTF?!) But yeah, I liked this game. Not my fave (BBS) but it was good.