Snow falls without end, the piano plays alone, and Setsuna walks toward her sacrifice.

No preference ranking, so we read the criteria, on few votes. And there's a nice tension to point out. The game you'd take to a desert island and the one you'd fire up for a quick round both edge out about three quarters of titles: the desire is there. Yet attachment lands right in the middle, and above all the wish to rediscover it fresh slips below the first third. There's the contrast: you love to launch it, you'd carry it with you, but the lasting love at first sight and the thrill of the first time are a little missing. To confirm, all of this hangs on one or two votes.

In the line of nostalgic JRPGs in the Chrono Trigger vein, I Am Setsuna owns its homage, its melancholy mood, its old-school combat.

So, who's it for? You, if you love gentle melancholy and JRPGs of old. Much less if you expect a work that marks you hard enough to dream of forgetting it all.