There’s no way of knowing the order in which any of this needs to play out and so you can - and we did - spend an absolute age just milling around this early level trying to figure out what on earth you're meant to do next. You’ll need to find and approach the thugs in question, interact with just the right one of them in order to send them running off and then get yourself to the building's parking garage in order to initiate a battle that sees the mission completed. However, as with almost everything here, this task is not at all straightforward or intuitive.
Almost immediately in Red’s storyline, for example, you’re asked to enter a building in order to confront members of BlackX, the evil syndicate that murdered your father. Just making your way through levels or completing tasks here, even early ones, can be an exasperating affair with finnicky, exacting ways to do things that aren’t in any way hinted at but must be completed just so in order for events to progress. If you’re willing to spend the time learning (most often from external sources and guides as the game hasn't got your back in this regard) and slowly getting to grips with this stuff, there’s absolutely plenty of fun to be had here, but be warned that this one will test your patience to breaking point before you arrive at a place of even vague understanding or comfort. We started out playing as Red, perhaps the most straightforward of the eight available characters - and the one that is most often recommended to newbies - and even then it wasn’t too long before we were racing off to the internet for help with the game’s battle system, often unfathomable level progression, abrupt difficulty spikes and so on.
There’s no getting around the fact that this is a nightmare of a game in many respects a real oddball curio of a thing that really does not want to hold your hand, explain itself at all or help you out in any way whatsoever. However, if you're coming at this one as a first-timer, things are quite a bit more complicated. In short, if you were already a fan, if you’re someone who has played through this one countless times before, you’ve got plenty to look forward to with this remastered release and should immediately add two points to the score below and go make that purchase. There’s double and triple speed boosts available at the touch of a button to help you bound around levels or battle through fights as quickly as you’d like, and you can easily save at any time by simply holding 'X' and hitting 'ZR' (something we'd advise you do as often as you possibly can).
Player characters and enemies look delightful here, crisp, colourful and bursting with previously unseen detail, and the many, many pre-rendered backdrops don’t seem to have aged a day. Starting out in SaGa Frontier Remastered, you’ll initially choose from the same seven character campaigns that were available in the original version of the game – with the option to play as previously cut character Fuse unlocked once you complete any one of these narrative strands – and the effort that’s been put into revitalising this age-old experience is immediately apparent. It introduces a bunch of neat quality of life improvements, restores lots of cut content, polishes character models to a high resolution sheen, adds pointers to help with level traversal and even throws in a New Game+ mode and brand new quest log system that makes it far, far easier to keep track of what you’re up to as you blast through the eight character storylines on offer.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)
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This is a twenty-six-year-old game that’s still worth experiencing, and one that benefits greatly from the additions made in this upgraded version, but it’s also one that you’ll need to prepare to work hard at in order to enjoy, especially if this is your first trip around The Regions.įirst things first, though - and on the most positive of notes - this really is a properly excellent remaster and an absolute gift for hardcore SaGa series fans. SaGa Frontier, Square Enix’s idiosyncratic JRPG classic, arrives on Nintendo Switch in a lovingly crafted remaster that gives long-time fans plenty to get excited about whilst fully retaining the ability to absolutely infuriate and bewilder anyone who isn’t au fait with its many, many eccentricities.
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