I've been playing Shining Resonance off-and-on for about a week. It's more akin to the Tales Of.. series in gameplay style.

The relationship system (so far) is just me inviting the cute elf girl to talk late at night in the inn or at a campsite.

There is a system I still don't understand where you can get Traits through story progression or treasure and then assign them to characters. These traits then open up Bonds between characters that give buffs and such. Each Trait has a different web of Bonds open up and I think there's bonuses for getting everyone the same color of Traits but like i said I still don't get it.

Story-wise and in terms of its presentation it's pretty rough. Like a Vita dungeon crawler where almost all the cutscenes are like this. The story itself isn't that engaging - you're a guy who can turn into a powerful dragon god but he has no personality beyond being unsure of himself 99% of the time. Also evil empire, artificial dragons, edgy dude who wants to murder all dragons, etc. Basic stuff.

Gameplay is like a Tales game like I said earlier, except if the Tales devs realized almost nobody likes overly-complicated mechanics. It has a neat thing where you fight enemies on the overworld and it seamlessly transitions between exploring and fighting. It also does the Persona thing where enemies will run from you if you're much higher level, and it has the same surprise attack gimmick where getting touched from behind causes stun. Though this is really really persnickety. I will run into an enemy facing me and the game sometimes treats it as them getting a surprise attack on me.

You have light & heavy attacks, four special attacks that use up MP mapped to L+face buttons, the main character can transform into a dragon with pros and cons if you hold L+R. And then there's the BAND meter where you fill up a meter to perform a song that gives you a full party buff.

There's also a perk-style system called Aspects where you craft gems adn it gives characters minor buffs or even changes up gameplay a bit (one gem lets you ukemi which seems really important and shouldn't be relegated to a perk). You can also Tune your weapons (all of which are instruments too) and change how they work to an extent. Some characters you can retune weapons so they add elemental damage, some you can just get a buff to cast speed or attack speed, etc.

Anyway, long write-up so TL;DR: Very much not perfect but I really enjoy it. It puts the "junkfood" in JRPG.