back), the usefulness of different items, how certain skills work, combination skills, and more are never directly explained to players. The turned-based battles are enjoyable, but many mechanics that are more unique to SaGa Frontier Remastered are just never explained. If you’re a veteran JRPG player, you won’t have much of an issue picking up battles, though I would never recommend this game to those new to the genre. SaGa Frontier Remastered tells players just as little about its gameplay as its plot. Though it would be surprising to see eight different stories that grip players’ attentions, it’s disappointing that some are just plain bad.
Other protagonists, such as Lute, feel incredibly throw away and a waste of players’ time. For instance, T260’s story sets up a nice mystery about their past, and Asellus’ story feels incredibly dramatic and serious. Some of the characters have a more in-depth story than others. While most JRPGs bring players into a world, set up a grand story, and set them loose, the game just kind of drops players in, with almost no explanation of plot or gameplay. Many might laud this as innovative for its time, with SaGa Frontier deviating from almost all of its contemporaries. The game revels in telling players as little as possible. Some might say this is due to laziness on my part, but if you have to talk to a bunch of random NPCs just to find out the name of the world that your game takes place in, you’re doing something wrong. Even after all the time I’ve spent with the game, I couldn’t tell you much about its world. This is usually the part of the review where I would try to give you a general plot synopsis but, even after many hours with the game, I feel like I still barely have any idea what was going on. Each of these characters has a different adventure for players to experience, though they all occur in the same world.
It doesn’t follow one plot, but instead the stories of eight different heroes: Asellus, Blue, Emilia, Lute, Red, Riki, T260, and Fuse. SaGa Frontier Remastered is a strange game. Now, the JRPG is easier to play than ever before, with Square Enix bringing SaGa Frontier Remastered to PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, iOS, and Android. Depending on who you talk to, SaGa Frontier is either a relic of its time or a hidden PS1 masterpiece.
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