Graphics and music for Eternal Sonata are brilliant. Playing the demo did nothing but confirm this. The battle system, however, leaves much to be desired. The battle screen starts off with the camera zoomed in on the character whose turn it is to attack. This makes it impossible to see enemies around you. Not to worry though, you can make the camera zoom out at battle start...while wasting precious seconds of your turn to attack! Another problem is getting in just the right position to attack. Sometimes I ran up to a monster and swung my weapon expecting to deliver a blow, but hit nothing but air.

Still, I got a peek at what I can expect towns to look like, and I was very pleased. My favorite part of the town was the field of flowers.