[quote name='Wolfpup']I really wanted this game back when it came out until I found out about it's high difficulty level. Hopefully we'll see more 2D games down the line (I'd love to see what the Playstation 3 and 360 can do...)[/quote]
I have this game, and I agree about the difficulty level and regret my purchase. It's definitely a try-before-you-buy game, although I like to see good sales numbers for under the radar games like Odin Sphere, so that part of me is happy that I bought it.
NB: there is an easy difficulty level, however, which I haven't tried out. So what the hell...if y'all are on the fence about buying it, just go and grab it. But one more caveat: I've been playing on PS3, but I've heard that the loading times on PS2 are pretty bad.