Curious, what's your feelings on Emerald Saga

With the game being out for a decent amount of time (and lack of content pertaining online) how did you all like Emerald Saga? I feel it's a good game but meh execution on what it set out to do. Thats not to say it's not worth playing it very much is imo just it didn't hit the heights of alot of other Sagas for me personally. I also wish there were some better mechanism to control the events and world appearances than the beat it and try again method. That aspects just feels like a time waster.