Never in a million years did I expect to be writing this review. From randomly walking into a pawn shop as a child and finding a game missing the manual insert in the jewel case for two dollars to obsessing over combos and monsters as an early teen to now. Honestly, had SaGa Frontier slated to get a remaster in 2021? Announced in 2020, this RPG, which happens to be a cousin to a little series called Final Fantasy, was finally coming back as Square Enix promised to give more love to a series neglected for far too long.

SaGa Frontier is an avant-garde RPG that bucked many traditional tropes and mechanics found in the Psone Golden Age of RPGs, opting to give the player a wildly unique experience for those willing to take the time to delve deeper into its peculiar self-aware nature.