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.
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.
