i managed to squeeze several (like 100) hours in my winter vacation to play hoshigami, but i found myself only interested in the storyline and using gameshark to get past all the battles. Storyline was good, the special characters are good, generic characters are BAD. The diety system and the skill learning was actually pretty good too. but really i did not like the battle system. it was not a game i would like to play over again so i sold it on ebay :P.