I'm doing my own playthrough to both celebrate this anniversary and to test out a hard mod. I'm about to go get Bart's Omnigear and the mod is forcing me to take the gameplay more seriously than I have ever done before. For instance, learning teh wonky mechanics beyond Wild Smile, Evasion Rings, etc.. They don't do exactly what you think they do.

I'm also using characters i never use, like Bart, Maria and Citan. I'm gonna drop Bart later on but I've used him a lot more in this playthrough than I've ever done before.

It's a shame I used Rico on my last run because although I would not recommend teh mod, it makes Rico a lot better than he is in the vanilla game. But, seeing as I used him last time, he's out.

Mitsuda did a concert for the anniversary I heard. I hope it comes out on CD or DVD soon.