THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Ichirou on January 13, 2008, 12:33:15 PM
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Since I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics on PSP, I've been reminiscing about the old 32-bit Square games. Brave Fencer Musashi, Tobal No. 1, Bushido Blade, etc...one of my personal favorites (and I think it's a really underrated game) was SaGa Frontier 2. It basically fixed everything that its predecessor got wrong.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Sf2na.jpg)
I'm gonna be honest, I thought the first SaGa Frontier sucked balls. I never understood why Square chose to release such a godawful game in the US. But then, when the previews for the sequel started showing up in the magazines, I was intrigued. The watercolor art, the high fantasy setting, the idea of following the paths of two protagonists and (eventually) their descendants...it sounded a lot cooler than the weird mishmash of only slightly interconnected adventures from the first game.
I bought it the very day it came out (I think I annoyed the local Electronics Boutique guy since I called about three times asking if it had arrived before going to the mall to buy it, hahaha). I was fucking hooked. The battle system was more streamlined than in the first game, and, while the game still had a lot of non-linear elements, it seemed like the story was overall much more cohesive. It's been almost ten years since I first played and beat the game, but I still have fond memories of it, and playing FFT makes me want to go back to it and give it another playthrough.
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i hve never plyaed a good saga game
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I love the SaGa series, but SF2 is one of the worst ones. The battle balance is out of whack, the Duel battles are awful, and there aren't as many cool crazy features as most of the other games. It does have a superb Hamauzu soundtrack though.
I don't much like SF1 either but it's at least a little better, thanks to the fun setting and toybox gameplay.
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I tried getting into Saga games and I swear some part of me loves them but they end up putting me off for some reason. I haven't played any of them in years so maybe a more mature outlook would change my opinion on them.
I have Saga Frontier 2 in my PSX box somewhere, maybe I'll attack it again on my PSP
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Saga frontier almost made me give up on RPGs.
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I tried getting into Saga games and I swear some part of me loves them but they end up putting me off for some reason. I haven't played any of them in years so maybe a more mature outlook would change my opinion on them.
Just get Romancing Saga PS2.
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I tried getting into Saga games and I swear some part of me loves them but they end up putting me off for some reason. I haven't played any of them in years so maybe a more mature outlook would change my opinion on them.
Just get Romancing Saga PS2.
Ugh.
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your last avatar was a lot cuter.
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mmmm, romancing saga ps2. i should replay that.
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i hve never plyaed a good saga game
Good and SaGa game don't go together.
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mmmm, romancing saga ps2. i should replay that.
I've never tried that one. I didn't even play Unlimited Saga because the reviews were so awful.
SaGa Frontier 2 was great, tho.
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romancing saga ps2 is probably the most orthodox and easy-to-play kawazu game. try it!
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SaGa Frontier 2 had such beautiful graphics, but yeah... like others have said, Kawazu isn't everyone's cup o' tea. I always want to like his games, but something about them (mainly excessive the random elements) puts me off a bit. I got enough mileage out of SaGa Frontier 1 (beat Red's quest and made it pretty far in the robot's quest), and 2 (made it through this large ice dungeon). Maybe I should replay SaGa Frontier 2 one of these days, even though I hear it gets impossible and I didn't like the way the story was constantly jumping around.
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i have never played a saga game
I recommend them, as they are great fun!
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SaGa Frontier 2 :bow
Gustave the Steel rox. ROX.
Does it play perfectly on PSP via emulation? We can only hope.