ForneiaVtuber

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Forgive me if you've mentioned this before, but how did you get into the Saga series?

When I was an early teen, we rented a PSX and the game I rented for it was Final Fantasy Tactics. In time, I would come to own both. In the back of the manual for FFT was some advertising for some other Square games. One of which was a game with a distinct font that I couldn't actually make out at the time. I could recognize an S, and then the word "Frontier". I found myself captivated and wanted to know more.

So I came to scour the rental sources for this game. No mean feat given that I couldn't actually make out what the title was. And yet, persistence paid off. I came to find and rent SaGa Frontier. I started with Blue's scenario. I didn't even manage to finish it before I had to turn it in again; and these were 5-day rentals over the Summer, mind. My next available rental I finished the scenario, and started T260's. Again, the return hit terminus before I hit completion. The sense of exploring to find new avenues to pursue goals struck a chord. This was a game that wasn't afraid to tell me nothing, and yet offer wonder whenever I managed to figure anything out.

I went on to rent that game a total of five times. Yet my parents wouldn't just buy the thing for me. I wouldn't have a hard copy until years later when I could purchase a second-hand copy over eBay. In the meantime I rented SaGa Frontier 2, wanting more. What I didn't realize is that broadly speaking no two SaGas are alike and SF2 is particularly divergent. I actually didn't click with it, and at the time disliked it. I have since come to greatly appreciate and respect the scope and scale the game operates on, but that comes with the wisdom of age.

So the question of where to go from there occurred. I noodled around on GameFAQs regularly back in the day, and I came to learn of other SaGa entries... one of which having a (mostly functional, though not exactly -good-) fan-translation. And so that is how I got into Romancing SaGa 3, via the Manasword translation. I ended up meeting one of my long-time friends on the RS3 GameFAQs boards (Hello there, @MarshmallowSack ), and RS3 scratched the itch for which I longed for that SF2 wasn't really supposed to. Since then, series history and comprehension have been not-insignificant points for me.

There's a reason why the Romancing SaGa 3 PC Port or SaGa Frontier Remastered are my go-to recommendations for anyone interested in getting into the series.


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in reply to @ForneiaVtuber's post:

Yep. And to think, for only about 1/3 of that time have you had an active sub to me on Twitch. It's mind-boggling enough to comprehend -that-, let alone how long we've known eachother. If I was over 18 at that point, it wasn't that long afterwards.