See none of that matters a bit to me. People always talk about this game has this cliche, that game has that clich, but none of it matters to me. All that matters to me in an RPG is that the story and characters are good.
ToS1 was amazing. The characters were very well done, and the story was very detailed. I loved the twists and turns. I swear unless an RPG has an angsty teen in it anymore it will get labeled "The story is not like new rpgs" or "from the days of old stories". Like some reviewers say about Dragon Quest 4 DS.