What’s more, the origins of practically everything involved in SaGa was introduced in Final Fantasy 2… a game that never saw release/a strategy guide in the West. And you only played that franchise if you had a Nintendo Gameboy and a really high tolerance for staring at a tiny, pea-green square’s worth of text (and a similarly high patience for banana smuggling). And, while the SaGa franchise was familiar to fans in Japan, over here in America Town, Kawazu had only shown his hand in the Final Fantasy Legend series. SaGa Frontier was directed and produced by Akitoshi Kawazu. I had no idea what SaGa Frontier had in store for me, but I did have forty bucks of Summer spending I could spare for the experience.Īnd, yes, SaGa Frontier is certainly an experience. Final Fantasy was a known quantity, Squaresoft was where Chrono Trigger originated, and a return to “sorcery” (an aspect of older Final Fantasy games that had been gradually given over to techno worlds at the time) was all that I needed. Overwhelmingly white CD case with some Amano-looking wispy dude wearing a patently ridiculous clothing/amulet combo? Sign me the hell up. SaGa Frontier caught my eye for one simple reason: it was the same color as Final Fantasy 7. There would not be a monthly periodical arriving to inform me of all the grand games coming to my favorite console anymore, and, as a result, I was lost in the wilderness of Electronics Boutique during every visit. It was a long, N64-based time coming, but, for the first time in my life, I was no longer “connected” to the gaming world. I was a gawky teen/band nerd that mostly assumed women were another, significantly alien species and, more importantly, I had just let my Nintendo Power subscription lapse. It is certainly a cliché, but I was a different person in 1998. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.There is nothing like an old friend stopping by to remind you of who you were. 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.
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