/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3728751
FFII is the grandpa of SaGa, it's a honorary member of the series at the very least, pretty much like The Last Remnant.
>if so, whats the best version to play?
Either the NES original or the Wonderswan/PS remakes, avoid the GBA/PSP remakes because they dumb down the difficulty considerably, the WSC/PS remake is basically a direct port with enhanced graphics, music and some bugfixes.
I personally really appreciate the enemy placement as the game provides you exactly what you need to fight or even exploit if you follow the plot instead of wandering around, which is why I can't understand people who grind or those who think that hitting themselves is the proper and best way to play. Other than that though, it's still a very basic system even if you compare it to SaGa 1.
>>3730084
Ain't that a wonderful feeling?
>>3730315
Scarlet has a lot of throwbacks to earlier titles, Urpina's theme has a part that is basically Imperial SaGa's common battle theme on a different key, there's a semigeneric recruitable character which has exactly the same braids as Sara from RomaSaGa 3 and a very similar face too, many weapons in the top tier forging paths are from Minstrel Song, not to mention the Dragon Spear Gae Bolg from the SNES games is finally back with Dragon's Descent as a built in waza and you get it as a drop from Dragon Rulers, some Frontier spells like Tower are back and so on.
It's a great game, wish they made some animations a bit better and added some monster variety, but it's definitely a great mainline game with tons of content and quite a lot of new mechanics to learn and have fun with.