SaGa Frontier

NO. NO. HELL THE FUCK NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT. GO TO HELL.

These are the words and phrases I would employ if someone offered me the PSX version of SaGa Frontier for free. There's no way in Hell that would ever happen again, free or not. With that said, let me tell you of days past -- days when I had the free time to muck about with such trash.

I had seen this game at a friend house and I thought it looked pretty nice. It was a burned copy of the game, so I didn't like it much when the game would suddenly cut out on me in the middle of battle. I figured, "Hey, it's a burned copy. This must be a bad burn." It never occured to me that Squaresoft(now SquareEnix)--the people responsible for Final Fantasy VII--would dare release a substandard game, much less port it over to the United States.

When I finally got to get this game, it was a used copy. Nevermind that, I was ready to go on and beat this RPG. And that's what I was playing up until I ran into a game-freezing bug and having to work my way back up to where i was and try to get past it again. The points that the game freezes up on are arbitrary; it can be 5 hours in, 15 hours in, or in the middle of a boss fight(whenever that would be). I can't stand this game and I hope it burns in Hell.

Visually speaking, it looks like the retarded caveman ancestor of Viewtiful Joe, with the speeding up/slow down option taken out because of the freezing. Oh yeah, and because it isn't Viewtiful Joe. Pre-rendered backgrounds for a 2D game would be OK, but in this case, it can be frustrating to an RPG purist like myself(read="I like overhead view and SD characters!"). The story is kinda blah; seven converging storylines of seven different people that lead up to some sort of final battle to do…what? I'll never know because the game kept freezing.

Soundwise, I still catch myself humming a few bars from the ONE good song in the game. That'll about do it, because to speak on the SFX would go beyond the limits of a bad review.
Gameplay is abysmal; you have to equip an item to use it in battle. The same thing happens in Suikoden 2 and Suikoden 3, but at least that game doesn't make you want to destroy your game console. In order to get special moves, you have to figure out the combination of normal moves to activate the special attack. By the time you've got it, your enemy has hit you with very known status effect in the game and your character can't do jack shit. I thought that Resident Evil was unforgiving, but holy crap…

I don't want to sit here and review a crappy RPG anymore. I recommend that if someone wants to sell you this PlayStation game(instead of trading it in? That's awfully suspect…), call the police. I say to this game a resounding "NO" and give this game a 0.

Back to the Video Game Reviews Homepage

Hosted by www.Geocities.ws