Gaming Unlimited Saga

[Zidargh]

[size=1][color=darkblue] As I was searching the official Square Enix site, I found news of this new title to be released.

From the looks of things it seems to have a similarity to the Saga Frontier genre so I presume this runs along in the same series.

The game itself looks incredibly different. For one, at the beginning of the game, you select a character out of a choice of 7 and then you run your own scenarios. It states that you have to visit [i]Adventure Inns[/i] to acquire information in order to gain quests etc.

The battle system is named ''Reel Battles'', and no it is not a mistake for ''Real Time Battles''. For those who wonder why i said that, well, I thought it was a mistake, heh. The battles consist of a selection of characters in your party of whom will battle and once selected you are given strategy, not random attacks.

Here is where the reel becomes involved. From what it seems, you are given a reel and depending on your timing and luck, it selects what attack will be carried out. Expect frustration for those who like to have complete control on the field.

The graphics remind me alot of [i]Saga Frontier[/i] and [i]Saga Frontier 2[/i] as the colouring and texture is completed by the use of watercolour features. An old classic for some, this may intrigure others.

The story itself, I will not spoil, however it contains the remeniscque of adventurers who are seeking a new path etc.

So it seems and interesting title for some, the big question is, will you purchase it?[/color][/size]

[Semjaza]

"Different" isn't a word I'd use to describe a game that's part of a franchise that's been going on since the NES days. Especially considering that most of what it does was done in the most recent sequels on PSX - the SaGa Frontier games (which you mentioned). They started off the same too, you picked your character and played their supposedly long story (Square was claiming 30 hours [i]per[/i] character, in real life it was 3 to 4 hours each).

They were awful. Seriously awful. The second one luckily was a bit better, but mostly because it was just gorgeous... something Unlimited SaGa seems to be going for as well.

I've not heard anything good about this game other than the visuals from anyone. Japanese magazines, local magazines, people from forums that just messed around with it. It's below average from the sounds of it.

So no, I'm not buying it. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people buy it just because it was made by Square though. I'm almost expecting people to accept it's crappiness for the same reason lol.