So, I (more or less) finished the game, and while I stick to my initial assessment of a well-made (okay, maybe middling, but decent production values) parody, it was surprisingly fun and I got a good laugh out of it. I didn't get half the references, and the humour isn't normally my style, but I still enjoyed it a lot.
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Oh forgot to note, the only references in here were it rips off a bit of Tusbasa Reservoir Chronicle with the whole "fragmented soul" thing, it rips off old Final Fantasy games with the whole going to crystal things (except you capture it rather than revive it), technically with the skeleton guy when he goes let's d-d-duel I sorta made fun of Yu-Gi-Oh even though I am not a fan, and Mr. Cabbage lowkey makes fun of the cabbage merchant in Avatar xD