After over a year of playing, it's time to rewrite my review today (Aug 7th, 2021). This is the best game on this website, and perhaps the best RPG game I've ever played. This game is as good as any Final Fantasy, Octopath, etc. The story is really where this game shines; the world is quite developed, with geography, interpersonal relationships, and especially politics taking a central role. If you're here to fap, feel free to try a different game; this is not a porn game, it's an RPG with porn.
Among RPG games, TLS is brutal in the best way possible. Rather than making the game hard by having endless amount of grinding required to beat the next boss (looking at you FF4 remake, the other RPG I'm currently playing), TLS takes a relatively novel approach: finite enemy count. You should fight every enemy to stay leveled, and you will always only barely be able to win. While the combat isn't particularly deep, it takes the old-school JRPG combat formula and pushes it as far as RPGM can possibly go.
Do yourself a favor and play this game.