Not a masterpiece, but a great RPG...in my opinion, the last great RPG of the 2-D era, only months before FF7 completely altered what was going on with RPGs (for better or worse).
I bought this game because my reservation for FF VII ended up not being called, and I wasn't going home without a game. I have pretty good memories of this intro.
Another sleeper RPG with a fantastic soundtrack... the score borrows heavily from Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores, to the extent that the overworld music uses a phrase from "The Ecstasy of Gold" from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.