I made some progress in this game and I was totally clueless. I was using trial - n - error to try to figure out how the battle system worked, but I remember being confused the entire time (melee). I remember getting stuck at some interior location (not an outdoors map, but some indoors "high-tech lab" with lots of computers and stuff).
I wasn't too excited by the strategy / combat aspects of the game (not that I understood them, of course), but the cinemas were kind of interesting and were frequent / long (IIRC). I liked the old (bald?) dude!
Anyway, even though I stopped playing the game, I actually like some of the music and put a few tracks on my computer
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