It was more a comment about the fact that you lose that capacity to feel awed when you are not a kid anymore. That game was magical for mini-me. Much more than the other games I had played before.
With some distance, the game itself is just a well-executed jRPG. It has an original approach to classes, some cute puzzles, beautiful graphics for its era, and more random encounters than any game should have, but the last one comes with the genre. Oh, and the inventory interface was so good, it spoiled me for all other games afterwards. I didn't mind the cutscenes: when you are a kid the limiting resource is not time, but money, so I enjoyed them.
The second was nice because of the new perspective on the World events, but the gameplay had lost a little bit of the spirit from the first one.