Hmm... I had a go at my press copy and... to be honest, I'm finding it just a little too retro for my liking... but I'll give it another go, the game might grab me if I give it a bit of time.
I'd have to agree. While I'm heavily into retro, this looks like something that was done on RPGmaker or something similar. It's always been hard to translate a true RPG to a 2D Pac-Man, serial action kind of environment.