![]() ![]() ![]() How can you modernise a game like SaGa Frontier without unwittingly polishing away a soul that derives in large part from how unpolished it was to begin with? And yet, SaGa Frontier Remastered, somehow, manages to walk that tightrope effortlessly. The risk in remastering such a game is that you lose all of that. Related: Collection of SaGa brings three classic Game Boy RPGs to Switch that have aged surprisingly well, in all their 8-bit, black-and-green glory. The obvious holes left behind from content cut at the last minute coupled with open, deliberately undirected storytelling that took inspiration from everything from classic JRPG fantasy to cyberpunk to tokusatsu hero shows created something that was messy and uneven, but all the better for it: a fever dream of different ideas, all pulled together in ways that work well precisely because, on paper, they shouldn’t. Nigh-unrestrained ambition and an constrained development cycle clashed to create something wholly unique, even within the inventive SaGa series. The original SaGa Frontier is a fascinating game. ![]() The best thing about SaGa Frontier Remastered isn’t the new content or features, but how it stays true to the scrappiness of the original. ![]()
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