Video Games : Saga Frontier 2

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: Saga Frontier 2

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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years
Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months
Binding: Video Game
EAN: 0662248900032
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: Square Enix
Manufacturer: Square Enix
Platform: PlayStation
Publisher: Square Enix
Sales Rank: 9471
Studio: Square Enix



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A beautifully illustrated fantasy role-playing game, SaGa Frontier 2 features lush, hand-painted watercolor backgrounds that give this animated title a rich, storybook look. Two-dimensional graphics have rarely looked this good in an adventure game.

Pretty pictures aside, the battle system in SaGa Frontier 2 is outstanding, allowing for combat to be as micromanaged or as mindless as players see fit. In addition to assigning in-battle character roles (such as support, intimidation, and so on), players can choose between multiple battle modes and execute elaborate attack combos (similar to that of fighting games).

Like its predecessor, SaGa Frontier 2 puts a spin on the genre by featuring multiple storylines that converge at various points in the game. Events in the game are encapsulated into (mostly) playable scenarios, with new playable scenarios opening up as the existing ones are completed. While this feature enables gamers to experience nonlinear gameplay from different perspectives, it ultimately muddles rather than enhances the game's overall narrative. --Joe Hon

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Terrible game
I liked the first series but this was aweful. The music was beautiful and so were the colors but...

1. Weapons break, some with as little as 20 uses. If a weapon breaks you have to restructure your entire spells and skills section to accomodate for the new weapon elements.
2. You're constantly using different characters. There's no connection felt between you and the characters because you get a completely new party almost every single time. Build up your character and get weaklings again.
3. It's hard to tell what order you should select the events in. One minute you're 12 the other minute you're best friend of old age. Time in the game moves fast.
4. The game has some glitches that may make events unpassable.
5. The game has events that seem like super busywork. Areas that did nothing before trigger events. Some are almost impossible without a walkthrough.
6. The plot is horrible. It's boring, the character development is aweful.
7. It has quicksave but it forces you to use it. Some monsters in the game are nearly impossible and are everywhere in some scenes, like griffins.
8. The battle system is super annoying to learn. If you forget to unequip skills you end up not learning any, and you have to do stupid duels to gain stuff faster.
9. You're constantly fighting over and over and over. You're actions do not effect the plot, rather you're 'rewarded' with another tidbit of the aweful story after killing infinite amounts of monsters.
10. Some wars are nearly impossible and completely a matter of luck. In the wars you have armored guys around gustave it's impossible to lose. The whole war thing is a joke.
11. It takes like 10 seconds for the battle to start, between the battle transitions and you and the monsters fading in. It's not a lot, but after you've had like 5000 battles which the game makes you fight it's a kick in the teeth.

This is not a fun game. It's incredibly frustrating to actually work through


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Saga Frontier 2: Second verse not as good as the first.
I loved the first game with it's "chose your own adventure" format and it's enchanting tales of a futureistic/mystical world full of Vampire-like Mysitcs and vengeful superheroes, so when I read in my favorite gameing publication, PSM, that Square Soft was releasing a sequal, I was thrilled. as soon as it appeared on the shelves, I bought it and began playing as soon as I got home. Sadly the game play can get tedious at times and it lacks the wide range of immediately playable characters that the first outing had, other than that, the game is pretty good. If you look at SF2 as a stand-alone title instead of a sequal, you stop compairing it with the original and see it for the intriguing story it is. It may not be Lunar or final fantasy calliber as far as story and character development, but the battle system has been improved scince the first game and there is plenty of humor to be found scattered about. All in all, Saga Frontier 2 is just a good game for a rainy, boring day.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - a personal favorite, but not for all
This game, after beating it, became my favorite.
I thought the story was excellent, although there were times during which it was confusing, primarily because the game is set in little chunks of time with different characters, and sometimes you will play events before the events that precede them. I honestly can't complain, since it's still fairly simple to get it all in a (for the most part) logical order. This, however seems to really annoy some people.
The battle system is complex. I played through the game twice and it wasn't until my second time through before the final boss that I even found out you could assign roles to your characters. I guess that's kinda my fault, though, for not reading the manual. The game is extremely difficult for somebody who was weened into the RPG world through Final Fantasy. I would not recommend this to anybody who has played nothing but Final Fantasy games, but rather for people who enjoy resetting their systems several times before getting through a boss. The bosses will surprise you.
The music and graphics are some of the finest. This game accounts for two of the six video game soundtrack related CDs that I have bought, and it's done in a piano-ish classical style. The graphics were almost entirely watercolor painted, and it has the most beautiful backgrounds I have ever seen in a game.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Another horrible game.
I turned this game off a little way in, I think it was even worse than SF1. Definately a waste of the money I payed to rent the game. So boring.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great RPG game but not as good as suikoden
This game is only fun if you do not play wills departure mode you lead this small army after the game proggreses a little there are small little battles are fun but the army battles are super fun when the gustauve mode turns into will mode you might as well push the power button but otherwise its damn great

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