Enjoy it? That's the understatement of the year. It's probably the best, and purest, RPG I've played since ages (and since Morrowind on the PC which I played for almost 2 years with all the available mods and stuff you could do).
While I have no clue yet why the things in the story are happening, the storytelling is top notch. The game is the perfect amalgation (duh,
dict.leo.org doesn't recognize that word... strange it something sounding akin to amalgation I think... "a merge of two things") between anime and video game.
What I really love about the gameplay though is: You're only controlling your main character and while the party fights with you, you're just yourself.
Roleplaying another character. That's pretty much the definition of an RPG. While that may be semantics, I always find it strange to call games as the Final Fantasy franchise true roleplaying games. So I'm supposed to roleplay 6 to 9 different character? And when we're fighting my "soul" switches through all of them so I have complete control over there action? Doesn't sound like a roleplaying game to me, more like a strategic or tactical game.
It's all the little design notches that truly take the game to game heaven for me: Like they still use senpai, -kun and such suffixes in the english translation (I always hate animes who don't even use the suffixes in subtitles), all the little multiple choice dialogs, the way that you don't really control your party, but tell them what to do via dialog (which makes it much more realistic than a simple menu where you edit their "gambits"), and especially the way you develop your character.
Oh and why do I always hear music playing throughout the game? Because my character has a freaking music player plugged into his ears, and it's even an equipable item! While that may to nada gameplay wise it's such a big atmospheric boost, which makes the immersion all the better.
The first time I was in class and the teacher asked Junpei a question, I gave him the right answer. Then some random pupil said "Oh
Ichigo (sue me, I'm also fighting shadows/hallows in this game
) gave him the right answer, me must listen to the teacher." and bam, "Your charm increased by one." How
awesome is that?
Edit:
And on a sidenote: Damn, is that PS2 OS menu ugly and unwieldy! Haven't used the little thing for almost 2 years now. And I can't seem to get the game into 16:9 mode, so I have to either jolt the image or cut of the top and lower stuff. Luckily my TV is able to find a middle ground, so it's a little crushed, and a little information at top and bottom is lost, but there's still everything on in the menus. But still the characters look a little on the fat side because they aren't as high as supposed to.
Is there any way to get the PS2 to outpul real 16:9 data instead of 4:3? There's the option "4:3, full screen, 16:9" in the system configuration but that seems to to nada about the output?
) I'm gonna dust it off just for that game. The magazine says the game is like Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Final Fantasy, which sounds so awesome I'm probably gonna explode. 
