Saiyuki Journey West - best Playstation SRPG you never heard of

Well in all honesty I hope you heard of it but if not here it is. Saiyuki Journey West is a very good Koei strategy RPG released here in 2001 near the end of the PSX's life. It follows the same Chinese myths that are the basis of so many Japanese things, from Dragonball to the game China Gate I talked about the other day.
You play as Sanzo, a young monk on a religious quest that takes you through very dangerous country aided by your animal morphing friends. During game play your characters can morph into animal avatars which are more powerful but you only have a limited time until they return to their human forms. This creates a level of strategy to save your morph until needed dependent on the map you are playing.
I played through this after it was released and have not played since then. Recently I converted it to a PSP friendly format (which is great Google it for details although you need a custom firmware on your device). Really cool game and can be obtained in digital format in the darker regions of the interwebs or just get the physical copy on Ebay for twenty bones.