[quote name='Chacrana']don't bother, whoever asked about Mana Khemia. It's ing awful.[/QUOTE]
I really liked Mana Khemia, personally I thought that the leveling system was great and very different from any other game I had played; and that the story (while it does move to a more typical RPG set-up toward the end) had a kind of slow school life pace to it that I found to be fresh and interesting.
The only major gripe I had with the game was that every enemy in the game gets about 2 times more powerful at night, including bosses; which basically means that you never fight anything at night unless you are suicidal, so you just run in circles until it is day again. Oh also the enemies move like 5 times faster on the field map at night too.
Outside of that though I really liked the pace of combat and the number of options (having characters fly in to switch places never got old), and it was really cool that synthesizing new items gave you both something to use/equip in addition to unlocking nodes in characters skill trees.