also,
Yggdra Union fucking rocks. It suffers from Sting's penchant for placing hundreds and thousands of little irreplacable event items that can only be found once during the game, but ... other than that the card/strategy RPG system is more kinds of awesome than I can count. Well, I can't count though so it doesn't matter. The feeling of "oh shit I missed XXX two maps ago" is terrible, though. The game takes longer to play than Riviera so it's much more annoying when you miss an important item. Still...loads of fun, two thumbs up if only I had two thumbs...
...wait, I have two thumbs. Nevermind, forget I said anything.
I'd probably get mobbed if I even tried to suggest that SRT is absolute shit...but I happen to rather like Alfa System and I haven't actually played OG1/2, so suffice it to say I'll be watching the US release with interest.