I've lately just got started on playing Saga Frontier. If you don't know anything about the game, Saga Frontier is a turn based RPG by Squaresoft on
. It was an early release and is not analog compatible. The game has 7 main characters that the player can choose from, and you can play them in any order, each character's story is a self-contained game needing its own separate save. The characters all share the same world and timeframe, and some of the characters will have a side story in another character's game.
What I LIKE about Saga Frontier is that the game is wide open from the very start, very non-linear. The downside to that is that the game does NOT always tell you or give the most obvious of hints on where you need to go next to advance the story. A character's story often does not advance until you will talk to one particular character, or go to a particular place at a particular time. With a wide open world, often the character that I needed to talk to ended up being some seemingly random character in a seemingly random building. More than half my gametime is spent talking to every single character, going to every place I can to figure out who or where I need to go to advance the story. Also, the bulk of my playtime is spent leveling up as the bosses in the game are often really strong and need lots of hits.
So far, I have completed the games for:
Emilia - took 15 hours saved gametime
Lady Asellus - took 20 hours saved gametime
Lute - took 15 hours saved gametime
There's probably at least 10 to 15 hours that could be added to that from constant game overs. The enemy levels are so brutal at times, that I'd run into a random enemy that was way stronger than me and I'd get crushed. The enemies faced tend to be random, so I'd never know if it was something easy or someone on the level of a boss. The difficulty is so random at times, that its really NECESSARY to quick-save CONSTANTLY, sometimes after every few battles, as I never know when the enemies faced would randomly be someone near unbeatable for the level I was at. Saga Frontier definately does not simplify the battles just because you are starting out - which I like.
Right now, I am on the T260G story. About... 5 hours or so in if I recall. Its been about 5 hours or so since I last triggered something to advance the story and I have combed nearly the entire gameworld trying to figure out who or where it is I need to talk to or be to advance the story. Bits of dialogue hint that I need to go to Manhattan to talk to Leonard, but I have combed that entire freaking city (and its pretty small really) multiple times and I can't figure out who to talk to or where to go.
If you are the kind of person who is totally into RPG's where you have to often have to search a vast game world to find just one particular seemingly random thing to advance the game story, you will
LOVE Saga Frontier just like I do.
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