i find 2 really charming honestly, though yeah it is the kind of quest design you would find in a western pc release with a 1993 squaresoft aesthetic
3 is… not great besides a couple of kenji ito bangers and the really weird diverse cast and yeah the fan translation is a fuckin’ ghastly early machine-translated thing
playing minstrel song for ~10 hours without a guide can also be a great introduction to the wacky antics of akitoshi kawazu