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Is Frontier 2 any good? The visuals and soundtrack seem amazing but hearing it's not open-ended like the first game kind of puts me off.

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It's like a slightly better RS1. Very pretty, great music, great character designs. But the gameplay is really shallow compared to RS2. You don't have anywhere near as many options for building your characters and you're actively discouraged from using magic if you want to spark shit (thanks to that stupid ass crown system) and when you combine that with how difficult the game can get with some of the bosses, you really have to know what you're working with or you can get fucked up.

The enemy level thing is also totally retarded here, it's RNG how much it goes up every fight you do. The cap was something like 158 and on a low-fighting playthrough I was at 152 before the final dungeon my last playthrough. Bosses don't scale until you hit cap, where they get 1.6x as much HP or some shit, but you're pretty much encouraged to just hit cap, get Shadow Servant and grind some 2% chance drops to negate some of the heinous RNG the final bosses like to pull.

Overall I'd say it's worth playing if you're already a SaGa fan. The core SaGa jank is there, so it's still enjoyable, but there's not really enough going on to make it into a game I'd actually recommend. It feels even more rushed than the other SaGa games. As a SNES JRPG I'd give it like a 6/10, most of that score being from the presentation rather than the actual game.

If you're new to the series and looking for a place to start, try SaGa 1 (Wonderswan version is cool), RS2 or Saga Frontier instead.

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