There were some nitpicks along the way, however. Picking up supplies is done with the triangle button, which works well during exploration, but if you need to scoop up some ammo that’s near a bottle during a fight you may grab the bottle instead. Inventory management can also be confusing. Many weapons and items are mapped to a single d-pad direction and, depending on whether the inventory is up or not, pressing a direction can have the exact opposite effect. These two issues got in the way a handful of times, but there was only one instance when this actually caused me to die.

This is a game that does an excellent job of working around the 3DS’ limitations. Conversations feature crisp and vibrant character models. The game employs talking heads for these, yet thanks to great writing and voice acting this never took me out of the experience.