Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $17.99.
- Story and characters: 63 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 22 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 16 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 130 sampled reviews
Based on 377 player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 130 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Further, instead of a traditional JRPG setup like the Gameboy games or the non-linear select-a-protagonist approach of Frontier 1 (and the Romancing subseries), Frontier 2 had a series of individual events, each locked to its own locations and parties of characters.
Still, the major gameplay "fixes" allowed me to finally experience what SaGa Frontier 2 really has to offer -- easily the best story in a SaGa game, taking place over nearly a century.
I did have much more appreciation for the watercolors and soundtrack, but that wasn't enough to keep me on board.
Music, graphics, game play all hold up well.
They streamlined the chronology, so you don't have to hop all around the world and research which event happens before which so you don't get spoiled, they made it so you can unequip characters inbetween events (including those you don't have access to anymore), they made it so you can scrap items from the menu without having to go back to town and even added a storage to save up on precious space, they made it clearer when you can go back to towns inbetween events for some shopping, as well as telling you when it'd be a good idea to make a separate save so you don't get ♥♥♥♥♥♥, they added a stats inheritance system (kinda like the mentorship system from Breath of Fire 3) so you aren't penalized for grinding outside of the endgame.. heck, they even added the Pocket Playstation minigame!
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $17.99 (−40%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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