My friends and I got this when it first came out so long ago in like 99 or something like that.  Might have been earlier too.  Anyways, I played it through myself on Leon first and the game had an amazing storyline and the RPG part of the game is amazing.  There are a few challenging mini puzzles which can be very annoying, much like Zelda, but once you get past them all is well again.  I would highly recommened this game to anyone, and compared to the gore they have in nowadays games, this is nothing.