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Oh yeah, I remember liking Rogue Galaxy. I don't think I ever finished it; pretty sure I gave up at the last boss years ago.

I liked the combat system of the game, with its weird localized real-time fighting mixed with Final Fantasy-esque special moves and teammate strategy prompts. I also liked the different team-up attacks; they encouraged me to use parties I didn't normally run with in order to see what damage they did.

Story-wise, the game was okay. The space-war plot was fairly meh-- it was kind of a Final Fantasy 12 In Space ripoff with an undercurrent of anti-Iraq War sentiment (Did you get to the cutscene with Totally Not George W Bush yet?), and it eventually decided it didn't want to do any more of the war stuff and instead decides to focus on space prophecies and legendary space hero-kings and swords made from the emotions of your friends. That said, I liked some of the character development and sidequests for the main team.

Oh, as a heads-up, there's a few costumes for Lilika that are slightly less revealing, if I remember correctly. A few armor sets will actually change the character model outfit, and one or two of Lilika's qualifies as Not A Bikini. Can't remember what the specific outfit was called though.

Also no the game treats most (but not all) female characters as Typical Anime Girls, in one way or the other. (Either A) LOLBOOBS, B) Flirty All the Time/ Using FLIRT To Get What She Wants, or C) Too Sweet and Innocent For This World, Look At These Magical Flower Petals That Appear Whenever She Smiles). But to be fair there's quite a few Anime Male stereotypes going on too, albeit not as much.

I think combat-wise, Lilika, Jupis and Zegram were my favorites, and character-wise, it's Simon (I think that was the masked guy's name?), Jupis, Zegram, Lilika and Steve.