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Terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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

Saga Frontier 2: Second verse not as good as the first.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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.

a personal favorite, but not for all

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

Another horrible game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: June 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

Great RPG game but not as good as suikoden

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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

4 star for a good try.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Squaresoft is mostly known for it's works of Final Fantasy and Xenosaga. But, there are plenty of other games they've made, and some of them, are actually pretty good. Saga Frontier 2 is really not all that bad, the watercolor graphics are light and a nice change, the music is well done, the story...well, it has a story, let's leave it at that. Sadly, the game is quit tough. Battles can be lengthy, nowhere near Final Fantasy Tactics lengthy, but the enemies are strong. Simply put, this isn't worth the 30 and 40 dollars, if you can find it for 15, as I did, then it will be worth it. A new Saga game has been confirmed, and let's hope that it will expand and improve on this game to the fullest.

Waste Of Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is not worth your money, believe me. The storylines are confusing, and the battles are just boring, especially if you have to fight a battle right after the other. I would give it a higher rating if the weapons didn't actually BREAK! Personally, I think the first Saga Frontier was much better. MUCH BETTER!

A Disapointed Gamer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Nothing much ,but I expected more from squaresoft. It is a really boring game thats all.

Second the best????????????????????????

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In this case second is definatly not the best. I recomend the first one for anyone who like excitement. Although fighting remains true to the first the gameplay and plot are pretty bad if you ask me.

Why would you make a game like this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have seen bad games but, this just needs work.The battle system is horrible. The characters are ok. The way the begining starts is just stupid! What more can you say. All I can say is this game is no fantasy but it needs help.

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