[Ashurato]

Saga Frontier is my penultimate game, though the Romancing Saga games were also rather good (the first ones, anyway). A lot of people hated SF1 (in the American side as least from what I've heard), but I found it fascinating and researched it extensively. I even bought Essence and the book will stay with me for the rest of my life.

Unlimited Saga was a game that had so much potential but was squandered by a hellacious battle system. Leveling your stats was impossible, the encounter rate was unnecessarily high, recovery was pathetic, and if you get stuck in a section while "traveling", you pretty much just die there and have to start over. I hadn't felt that frustrated since FF Mystic Quest. You don't even bother to think about plot and character development because you're too busy cursing at the screen for the game sucking so much.

Oh, I wasn't too fond of the game Ico either.