It's a very good game.
Out of the originals, 3 > 2 > 1 > 4. 3 and 2 are good. 1 is borderline unplayable as a game, though it is actually interesting to see the feature set that SO1 has on the SNES. 4 is actually pretty much unplayable. People say SO3 has bad mechanics because they can't wrap their heads around having two life bars and needing to balance them. SO4 ACTUALLY has bad mechanics.
"Blue Sphere"? What's that?
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