Postcard Review: SaGa shenanigans

(Editor’s note: In this feature, members of the Pixelitis staff write small, easily digestible reviews big enough to ‘fit on a postcard’ – hence the title. It can be about the whole experience or just a small piece of the pie. No scores needed.)

"Having too big of a cast in a JRPG can really make or break it me. Until SaGa Frontier, that is.

When I first started playing RPGs, I tended to lean toward experiencing the ones where the majority of the plot centered around a small group of heroes, like in Dragon Quest or Lufia. I always thought that a huge cast of characters would cause an RPG to feel too overbearing in its plot, with inadequate room to really flesh out any single character. Even so, some games have managed to pull this off effectively – Suikoden and Final Fantasy VI spring to mind. But some may forget how well it was pulled off in SaGa Frontier, an underrated gem." – Tom Farndon