![]() ![]() To quote one review from the time, a “depressing misfire". The black sheep of the SquareSoft PlayStation RPG catalog. Written off as not worth the time or money. The game got what would become the usual SaGa treatment from the West it was seen as an annoying, confusing mess. Bizarre, opaque mechanics from top to bottom.Īlmost everyone who had found their love for the genre through Final Fantasy 7 bounced off of SaGa Frontier hard. Difficulty spikes all over the place, and even some places where you can get stuck if you didn’t level properly beforehand. Some gorgeous art, but decidedly plainer than Final Fantasy 7. There are seven different protagonists (eight in Remastered, but we’ll get to that) each with their own story, and no guidance as to which one a player should choose to start with. As “second" JRPGs go, SaGa Frontier was… less than ideal. An exciting story, dazzling (for the time) 3D visuals, plenty of action-packed mini-games, generally forgiving difficulty, and easily understood mechanics. As “first" JRPGs go, Final Fantasy 7 was a great one. That game was something of a lightning rod for the genre in the West, pulling in people who had never touched a console RPG before. The biggest problem for poor old SaGa Frontier is that it was the first SquareSoft JRPG released after Final Fantasy 7 in the West. We missed out on the three Romancing SaGa games, and while the Game Boy games had their devotees they were also a bit closer to a familiar JRPG structure. Western players didn’t have that context, of course. It’s considerably harder to get into than almost all of its predecessors. SaGa Frontier was the seventh game in the series, and as such it was built with the idea that the players would have a basic understanding of the off-beat nature that characterized SaGa. It’s a very, very quirky series by nature, often confusing players with esoteric rules and non-standard systems. To start with, SaGa Frontier is a SaGa game, with all that implies. What happened last time? Well, it’s complicated. SaGa Frontier Remastered ($24.99) sees the very first game in the series that was localized under its original title make a return, hopefully to a warmer reception than last time. And now things come full circle, after a fashion. Even the classic Game Boy games that kicked off the SaGa series (unbeknownst to those of us in the West at the time) got reissued on the Nintendo Switch. We’ve seen the latest SaGa, SaGa Scarlet Grace, get a release on new platforms and in new regions. We’ve received localizations of classic games I never thought we would see like Romancing SaGa 2 and Romancing SaGa 3. The 8-bit and 16-bit Final Fantasy games can only be re-released and/or remade so many times, I suppose. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I don’t know what has been in the water at Square Enix the last few years, but I’m happy for it. ![]() Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]() Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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