While I don't really play the game I do know the story. after watching the anime I am thinking of properly playing the game now lol
The game could easily be made into a great party JRPG because the story is really deep. They tried it once before but the jrpg mechanics of the game was not up to snuff and thus they keep making it as a fighting game, too bad.
The anime takes place directly after this game and they made MC Sol /JO ship canon too in the anime lol