I only played the first 5 minutes of the game, so these are my initial thoughts. First off, there seems to be a lot of effort into here. Which is good. Every where seems to be well designed.
The start of the game made me giggle though. So Crono and Marle are looking down at Grandia when ALL OF A SUDDEN MONSTERS ATTACK! Then out of no where LAVOS APPEARS AND KIDNAPPS MaRLE. HE HAS TAKEN HER TO ANOTHER CASTLE
. It seemed a bit, spontaneous :p.
You wake up in a strange woman's bed "Possibly an inn", who some how knows your name, but is aware that you don't know her's :p
I plan on playing some more though, but I've be come nitpicky in my recent years.
Another question is, how is the grinding? I know most rpgmaker games like to use it as the "meat" of the game, but I was wondering if you took the CT approach to grinding, which is, little to none, while placing you in the places you should be at the strength you should be at?