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Dumber than rocks weird media enjoyer


SaGa Frontier II is my favorite game that I struggle to recommend that other people actually play. Part of the SaGa JRPG series, in modern terms it's much more akin to a Visual Novel than a typical JRPG. Except instead of being a novel it leans towards being a visual fantasy history textbook, which I just think is neat.

You play through a series of short scenarios, with a degree of freedom to let you jump around and do them out of chronological order. You have characters who are playable for a single scenario with no mandatory combat (or no combat at all) because that was an important piece of history. You have characters who are playable for one or two scenarios and then never show up again because as far as history was concerned they were only significant for that one brief moment in time. You have major characters who kind of just die because hey sometimes that's how history goes. You have an absolutely horrid somewhat RNG dependent mass combat scenario that's like that because it was historically a battle that the winning side had no real business winning. The game has only a loose attempt at a narrative arc and that's okay because history has no narrative arc. It's great!

Also it's very pretty. The watercolor style is great and the OST rocks.

Now, is the gameplay particularly good or intuitive... Nervous Laughter


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