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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 56
Date: January 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I dont Have A credit card can I mail you a check for Final Fantasy Lend. My son had this game and someone stoled it. This is the only place that I have found one. So please let me send you a check.Please get back in touch with me as soon as possible. THANK YOU Sheila Maples

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4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I think it is the best because I play it all the time. My friend likes it and is mad because I owned it and found it.I am a big final fantasy fan so buy it if you dont own it buy it. it is really cool.

Okay.... I guess....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I thought it was FF. But its not! It actually SaGa or SagGe or something.

Gameplay:3.5/5, The gameplay gets slow and often repetitive. Weapons don't do much. Evolving monsters and mutants in the party are wayyyy better than standard humans (unbalanced).

Plot:2/5, There's a plot!?! WOW! The plot is so corny I didn't realize it was their! The dialogue is short and choppy, and it often doesn't make sense.

Graphics:4/5, Good for its age!

Replay:4/5, Like any RPG, it has replay value.

Ingenuity:2/5, Not much new here, except for the "monsters evolve when they eat enemies meat" concept.

Overall:15.5/20, Average, if its really cheap, check it out.

SaGa Frontier Makes It's Way To A Gameboy Near You!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'll be quick and to the point...this game is NOT Final Fantasy!!! Did I mention it's also bad? The story, music, and gameplay is as flat as the cartrige it's made on! SaGa Frotier has been wildly praised as the worst Squaresoft game ever produced, and it's no wonder why! The only reason it came here as Final Fantasy is because they figured that's the only way it would sell! My advice: Skip this game!

Bundles o' fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A fairly good game, although it didn't truly deserve the name of Final Fantasy. It simply didn't catch essensce of the FF games, It lacked the engrossing story.It was too...

Simple.

But, when I started playing, I was hooked. A fun game to play when BORED.

All in all, a game to play when you are tired of those annoying car songs on road trips.

You do not need fancy graphics to enjoy a good game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I remember this game being pretty simple graphics wise if a bit less than Final Fantasy Adventure was, but still you didn't have to pretend the blue was water and the green was land; like Nobunaga's Ambition. You have to remember the age of this game so you can forgive the graphics. I played the Final Fantasy Legend games one after the other in 2001 and enjoyed the experience. For nostalgia it was great but if you haven't played or do not like older games you would not like this one.

Despite nostalgia, still a poor game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: May 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There is no doubt that Final Fantasy Legend (SaGa in Japan, billed as Final Fantasy in the United States to boost sales) was a highly advanced game for its time (1989). However, it offers nothing that its sequel doesn't offer, and the game is, shall we say, very poor. Not having the advantage of color that its contemporaries (Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy) had, the graphics are so poor that they were actually bad in 1989, which says a lot. The story is about as simplistic as they come, and you should be able to beat this game in a few hours no problem. Considering its limited availability now, I doubt anyone will really want to play this game - trust me, you aren't missing anything. My fellow "old school" RPG players will call me a heretic, but this game has nothing memorable to offer. Skip it.

A great start to a great series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was so interesting and fun that I just couldn't take my eyes off it! This game started the Final Fantasy series and led to a great saga.

SaGa's first US appearance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I rate this game well not only because it is a good game, but it also started my favorite Squaresoft series (SaGa). Give the game a chance if you can. It does not have great graphics/music/story, but it is an older game so be forgiving. Besides, the gameplay more than makes up for that.

important cultural document; great game. I love FFL.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy Legend is a versatile, robust RPG that i would liken to the Diablo of its day. the story line, which i grant you is occasionally flat, is more than made up for by the generally innovative game interface which involves limited weapon uses, versatile, randomly developing characters (mutants), mutating monster characters, a scalable party (you can have anywhere between 1 and 4 characters, and add more, up to four of course, at any time), etc., etc.... If you liked Diablo I and its randomly generating levels and weapons scheme, and thought that these aspects more than made up for its light plotline, I think you will appreciate the (admittedly less honed, more hidden) sense of replayability that Final Fantasy Legend delivers. Both Diablo I and Final Fantasy Legend also share a classic sense of item-fetishization: the idolization of the elusive, sought-after item, whether it be a platonic ideal "perfect" item in Diablo, or the glass sword in this game. If you, like me, are a rarity finder, a scourer of levels, in short, an item-fetishizer, you will love this game.
I digress. I think that in this situation, an opinion may prevail over an argument: my favorite aspect of final fantasy legend is its quintessential old-school feel and general sense of mood and peculiar, veiled beauty. I say that there is no sweeter song than that played on a square wave synthesizer and know that there are those of you out there who agree with me. I believe, also that when one creates a game, one should leave room for the player's freedom of choice, as well as his/her imagination. which this game does, i feel, with a little room to spare. If you are looking for another of square's recent, heavy-handed disneyesque cine-RPG's, buy (the totally unaffiliated) Final Fantasy 17 or 20 or whatever number they're churning out. But if you want an old-school hand-crafted game that makes the absolute most of its limited hardware, get Final Fantasy Legend.

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