This game is hard to break into. It's funny because I love wacky, off-the-wall character designs, and super strange, nonsensical humor that is as you guys said, mostly the Japanese take on an American suburban setting. But yeah, it's a tough wall to climb at first. Everything between Buzz Buzz leaving the scene and getting to the Happy Happy Village is kinda hard. Lots of old-school systems, grinding, and open-ended direction. That can be fun, not being told what to do specifically, but the difficulty that you hit everywhere you try to explore, can be exhausting and honestly probably a lot of game-enders for many players. If they ever remaster this game, I'd love for their to be some customization in how the player wants to experience the game. Maybe it's as simple as a difficulty setting, maybe it's working in some of Mother 3's combat system, maybe there could be a toggle between a classic experience and a modernized one.