Sands of Destruction (DS) $20.79 shipped through Amazon 3rd party seller

Nice find OP. This is by most of the team that did xenogears.

I should pick it up at this price, but still on the fence. Sounds like its got some problems. But it is kind of a successor to the best jrpg ever made.

I played it not too long ago. It's actually not as bad as some say. The battle system can be broken and it's a little on the short side but otherwise it's pretty good.
Not even close to Xenogears good though.

I liked this game a lot and had no issues with the battle system at all. A bit easy and short but it was a nice little game to cruise through. The only annoying thing to me was the mazes were maddening.