After all, SaGa Frontier is a game featuring eight protagonists, with seven available before players finish the game with each. My first playthrough of the original game was with Red, and so, his campaign will serve as the basis for this review.
I thought I would dive into SaGa Frontier Remastered by beginning with familiar territory. One cannot learn both light and shadow magic-”one cannot serve two masters.” A type of magic called “spiritual” also exists, but I have yet to encounter it (again). Spiritual: Though I did not encounter explicit religions, the way that magic functions in this game has religious undertones. A central component of her story concerns how she is shunned. A blood transfusion that saves her life makes her a “half breed” in the eyes of humans and Mystics alike. Racism and Bigotry: The origin story of one playable character, Asellus, resembles that of She-Hulk. Language and Crude Humor: Humor that would be considered crude is difficult to find, but this game is not shy of using an occasional d**n, depending on the character played.Īlcohol and Drug Use: Characters speak of a drug in certain areas of the game, such as a setting called Koorong. They are rare, and nothing at all like blood in modern games. Violence: I was surprised to encounter certain attacks that shed blood. The result was the subject of this review, the original SaGa Frontier, now remastered for modern platforms. Yet Akitoshi Kawazu managed the last bit of juice out of that lemon, getting the go-ahead to develop a budget game among his much polygon-based in-house competition. SquareSoft wanted to do big things, and believed in the 3D rendering prowess of the PSX and its disc-based format (for our young readers, PSX discs held 660 MB of data while Nintendo cartridges could only manage 64 megabytes, both laughable by today’s standards). Nintendo’s decision to continue the cartridge-based format was a critical error (for Sega’s, continue reading). And that is before considering the easy ones like FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, and FFT (I did have to look up Vagrant Story and Legend of Mana). Without even looking, here’s my list: Front Mission, Parasite Eve, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, and even Brave Fencer Musashi for some ARPG vibes. If the Nintendo and Super Nintendo eras were SquareSoft’s Golden Age, the PSX era had to be the developer’s Silver Age.
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