Let’s Play SaGa Frontier Remastered – Part 1 – My Brother Is A Shapeshifter?!?!
Watch at: 00:00 / 00:00:20[Music]we playwelcome to the freak show i'm your hostbumpy mcsquiggums and today we get to dosomething really cool and i'm prettyexcited to do it we're diving in we'rechecking out sagafrontier remastered it is by square enixand it is due out on april 152021 onto playstation 4 nintendo switchWatch at: 00:20 / 00:40steam android and ios sofive platforms across the board it isgoing to be released on and this marks averyvery very special occurrence guys galsand my white whale has finally beencaught i have been pursuing working withsquare enix for years at this point andWatch at: 00:40 / 01:00finally one of my requests came back tomeand a big big big massive thank youto square enix for hooking me up withthe code for saga frontier remasteredit means a lot and again i finallymanaged toto get my hands on something like that ii'm elated guys guys i'm super happyWatch at: 01:00 / 01:20i'm i'm i'm over the moon basically wellwe're going to dive in we're going toplay around and have some fun i did someplaying around on my own just kind ofget a little familiar with the game thecontrol schemeand i kind of played with theconfiguration everything else we'llstart freshand i'm going to dive in i don't have alot of experience with the saga seriesas a wholei am aware that it was kind of anWatch at: 01:20 / 01:40offshoot offinal fantasy 2 becoming the leadfinal fantasy legend or the legend offinal fantasy and there was like athree-part series of that which ibelieve they remastered and released onthe switch just recentlyand then the saga franchise kind of tookoff from thereWatch at: 01:40 / 02:00i did play a little bit of romancingsaga the original way back in the day idon't remember much about it so this isreally going to be my firstendeavor with any length of time andenergy and effort put into itthat we're going to be going into thisfranchise and i'm really excited to doso this has been on my to-do list for avery long time to get into and i justhaven't had the timeand now with work and this kind ofWatch at: 02:00 / 02:20combining into onei get the chance to do something thati've always wanted to so good times allaroundlet's hop in let's begin so it lookslike we're going to be able to gothrough each of these differentcharacterssee what they're all about and thenchoose one to play asso we have loot we have emilia we have t260 we have ricky or ricky some peopleWatch at: 02:20 / 02:40like to say that's going to go with rickrickylike riki maru anyway uh we have bluewe have acelas and we havered so we have red and blue and red islooks like he's dressed in red he's gota blue cape bluehair blue fists thingies gauntlets iguessgloves if you will and blue shoes butWatch at: 02:40 / 03:00his name is redstrange uh and then red blue over heredressed in blue but has blondish goldishhairlooks female but i'm pretty sure it's aguybut i could be wrong anyway uh let'slet's let's look aroundblue yep it looks like that is indeedWatch at: 03:00 / 03:20the casea a magus destined to best his brotherblue race humanborn with the spark for unfathomablemagic powerlocal custom dictates that he will onlybe able to reach his true potentialif his twin brother dies by his own handhe sets off on a journey to vanquishWatch at: 03:20 / 03:40rougeand lay claim to his birthright wellthat's horribleyeah no i don't i don't think we'regonna be chilling with bluelike what what you want to murder likeme and my brother don't get along butlikei don't want to murder him most of thetimeno i don't want to murder him that'sWatch at: 03:40 / 04:00that's that's a strangethat's a strange origin story therea wandering half mystic very interestingart styleuh aselus or a celios no uh celes uh thehalf mysticsaved from death by orlouge the king ofthe mystics she was transformedWatch at: 04:00 / 04:20into the only half human half mystic theworld has ever seennow she searches for meaning in a worldwhere she is never truly acceptedwell that's unfortunate no i don't wantto choose youyet maybe let's see what red's all aboutis he's not the other brother would berouge that would be the other brother souh human as well an apprentice engineerWatch at: 04:20 / 04:40aboard thecygnus whose smiling facade hides histragic pastthis family was assassinated by an evilorganization known asblack x saved from death by a mysteriousbeing he has an inherited superpowersthat can save the world from certainruinwell he seems like the obvious choiceWatch at: 04:40 / 05:00like we absolutely totally should rockout with this guy man look atsuper super powers now we got loot i'mprobably going to go with lukei know he intrigues me the the wasteroll of york landloot race human a carefree disobedientyouth who grew up in the countrysidehaving finallydecided to cast aside his lazy ways heWatch at: 05:00 / 05:20takes up an instrument and departs hishomeland for the first timein his life i i feel you on that buddywe have amelia a former supermodel whochosemarriage over work her fiance wren wasbrutally murdered that'sso sad and she took the fall she nowhunts for a masked man named jokerWatch at: 05:20 / 05:40biting her time until she can see himbrought to justiceand she has a gun apparently or alike a little dust buster we're gonnaassume it's a guna woman searching for her fiance iskiller all righti feel that that sucks i feel and thenwe havet 260 a mech that lost sight of theirWatch at: 05:40 / 06:00missiona mech made from an ancient corediscovered by an archaeological digthey were entrusted with a vital missionthe specifics of which they are unableto fully recall due to memory failurethey set out to rediscover where theirduty may beokay okay i got you and then rickyoh that's okay a monster looking for aWatch at: 06:00 / 06:20ring to save his hometownuh margamel the land faded to expire atany momenthe searches far and wide for magic ringsthat are said to be the key topreventing his homeland from fallinginto ruinnoble quest i like i like ricky's questbut iWatch at: 06:20 / 06:40can't get over the weirdness of rickyright nowjust up there just kind of catting itout you knowuh yeah luke's speaking to me we'regonna go with luke he's got a little fezon he's got his loot he's playing he'sstrumming he's having a good old timehe's a lazy boyand apparently he was a troubled youth imeani wasn't but we'll pretend i was thisWatch at: 06:40 / 07:00worksall right let's do this thing yeah uhplaying witch mode we'd recommendplaying with additional content enabledselecting with theadditional content allows you to playwith new game elements enabledplease note that some events and systemsmay differ slightly from the originalsaga frontierso i know a lot of people are big fansWatch at: 07:00 / 07:20of this series as a whole so if anyonedoes see any differences as we playthrough i will play with the additionalcontent onbut i am not familiar enough with thissaga or so with the saga franchise orsaga frontier specifically to know whatthose differences are going to beso i would love for you guys to point itout because i'm always curious to seewhat they'vechanged remade you know back in the dayWatch at: 07:20 / 07:40oftentimesgames weren't designed necessarily theideal way that like the developer wantedtothey had to work within certainframework and they had limitations withthe hardware and software and all thatstuffso to see it like come full circle andfrom what i'm also to understand theoriginal group that worked on sagaWatch at: 07:40 / 08:00frontier came back to remaster thismaybe something along those lines soit should be pretty faithful but againthey are adding new elements inand so if anyone has those old elementsand they see the differencespoint them out if you'd be so kind andthoughts on it let me know let me knowis it is it an improvement is itWatch at: 08:00 / 08:20something bettersomething worse i'm very curious to seeeither waylet's go with additional contenti'm really excited to get into this sagafrontiers uh use thelet's create the new one that's whatevercreating saga frontier system dataplease tell me your name i think this isfor just us in general so i'm just gonnaWatch at: 08:20 / 08:40go with bumpy and i think that likespecifies like which um a profileessentially that we're onso yeah i don't think it's gonna changeourhero's name please tell me your sign inyour blood type we're gonna gowith aries and we're gonna go with a bWatch at: 08:40 / 09:00it's a secret i like that as an optionthis data is for you and you aloneplease take good care of ittype top right for auto saves okay i'mhere for iti'm really excited and a big shout outWatch at: 09:00 / 09:20and thank you once again to square enixfor hooking me up we're at york landlike it means a lot like i've beentrying and tryingand trying to get hooked up with themfor a long timeso this again i i'm i'm super gratefulhurry up mom i'm still worried aboutleaving you here all alone ah don'tWatch at: 09:20 / 09:40treat me like some old woman i'm not soold i have to be worried aboutwork hard loot all right maso the control scheme is about what youwould expectbut there's some funny stuff and you'llsee here soon big bro are you reallygoingsee ya thunder be strong take care of maWatch at: 09:40 / 10:00well i guess i'll be goingso we're just gonna cheese it out oftown i guessand so this young boy left home raisedby his mother he was shiftlessand brought her nothing but grief butfor some reason all the neighborhoodWatch at: 10:00 / 10:20punks liked himthat young boy's name iswe're going to keep it as loot we're notgoing to change itfinally luke decided to move away fromhomeall right so we can go overto these folks if we wanted toWatch at: 10:20 / 10:40or we can go explore some other stuff wecan even go back the way we came nowcheck this out rightso you see how we're moving around youknow it's it's it's all rightbut look at the run speed it's soridiculous i love it i love how fast werun it's so coolnow we're gonna head back this wayum i think we just walk into stuff andWatch at: 10:40 / 11:00lets you talk yeah nayno apparently i was wrong my sisterbraided my hair for memy sister braided my hair for me can youget out of my way for mewe're expecting another sandstorm so i'msecuring my tents well that's goodit's good to be prepared what's going onover hereWatch at: 11:00 / 11:20want to dance with us yeah i didno oh okay watch from over there oh wowwe're just gettingshunnedyou're in the way well excuse me forexisting no i'm not in the way stop itWatch at: 11:20 / 11:40i want to talk to the final one you havea child on your back i just lovechildrenall right so there's a path over thatway it looks like there'ssomething over hereso it looks like we can quick save withWatch at: 11:40 / 12:00x plus zrthat's and y opens up a menuso we are gonna be kind of learning howthis all works out i'm gonna try thequick save yeahcool we're gonna be kind of figuring outhow all this works out together guys andguysas i said i'm not super familiar withthis series this franchise as a wholei'm aware that it's a more open likeWatch at: 12:00 / 12:20final fantasywhile it had its um open areas that youcan go and grind levels and so on and soforthit kind of had a much more linear storywhereasthe saga franchise was supposed to bemore open world our billionaire ran awaythe other nightokay hey it's our brother what's upWatch at: 12:20 / 12:40thunderdon't forget about me big bro take careof my thunderforget about me take care of my okayinterestingWatch at: 12:40 / 13:00what is this place this is our this iswhere we just left from i'll kill me ifwe go home now[Music]i was kind of hoping that maybe we couldconvince our brother or somebody to likejoin usjust don't want to hang out orWatch at: 13:00 / 13:20all right buddy sorrywho this my husband loves it here butthis dry weather is murder on my skinmine too we have nice weather every dayit's a little too dry for mewellWatch at: 13:20 / 13:40all right what's over to our left i feellike the way we're supposed to go iswhere those two dudes are sohorses are great aren't they they walkon all four legs there must be lots ofworkwelcome youngin enjoy our famous sake ohif i'm a young and i shouldn't bedrinking should ithis whole town is a no smoking zonecan't be too careful with a fire aroundWatch at: 13:40 / 14:00hereall right what's in hereit's like a lot of people to talk to intown we didn't have all thissophisticated stuff back when i was akidi wonder if my liquor tastes better thangrandpa'sinteresting yeah no smoking fireliquor bad got it all overWatch at: 14:00 / 14:20the day i was born dad bottled the bestgrapes to make winewe're going to celebrate my 20thbirthday with it i can't waitcool[Music]daddy snacks with me every night he saysWatch at: 14:20 / 14:40he needs something to munch onokay i want to talk to your father stopstop pestering me childnow that we've got twin girls i guess wegotta give up the liquor businessi would open all an all-natural juiceplace i want a donut shopall right girlsdad finally quit smoking because it'sdangerous to smoke around liquor wellWatch at: 14:40 / 15:00keep away from me when i'm drinking whatdo you wanti don't know i'm just talking to peepswhat does saki taste like i don't knowhi there been drinking no i try not tothe seller's been around for 300 yearsthat's 300 years of brewing passion ineach dropWatch at: 15:00 / 15:20yes yes yes i'm aware any ideasfor a new kind of liquor traditionalstuff's too dry how about somethingsweet for a changetourists love anything made with fruithow about keeping the alcohol level lowso they can drink as much as they likeyeah it's worth a shot uh don't blab anyof the other sellersum we need something newWatch at: 15:20 / 15:40traditional tastes fine i'm just anassistant andtrying to come up with a whole newliqueurso they're real heavy in the the theircups over here apparentlyhello friendo hello noWatch at: 15:40 / 16:00don't seem to want to talk to me allright well everybody else is chatty notthat guy i guess buthow dare you come both bug me luteoh sorry sorry i'm stuck inside there wegowhy it's not from york land so i've gotto make sure she makes decent liquori know i know i'm trying to get into itWatch at: 16:00 / 16:19lady you're blocking the waymove walk slower maybe oh there we go wegot we got past those all goodit's a charming little group of peepswant somenahokay so i think we've spoken witheveryone we've been everywhere exceptto you this barrel isn't ready yet ahWatch at: 16:19 / 16:40that stuff tasteshorrible see didn't i tell you it isn'tready why can't you wait sorryyes oh no i won't go back thereall right well what's this wayduhWatch at: 16:40 / 17:00okay a lot of eyes out hereoh something just jumped out okay sothat that's how you do battle apparentlyoh what is thatall right um i guess we're gonna trybattlingWatch at: 17:00 / 17:20we have 80 hp 10 magic points we have abowie knifeuh martial arts we can defend we canfleelet's try our knife i guessa platoon puss all rightoh oh he almost one shot me ohno all i did was 26 damage that'sWatch at: 17:20 / 17:40not gonna fly umhow to runokay so apparently combat is not a thingtotaken we seem to heal up after everybattle thoughcombat seems to be something that youWatch at: 17:40 / 18:00don't take too lightlysir is there literally no one we can getto have help usbro did you see what happened to me igot slapped in the facedang it i don't think so all right welli guess i guess we go to the other thingWatch at: 18:00 / 18:20umnot real sure what we're doing right yetbut it's okay figure it outthis place looks interesting all rightwhat's up who are you guysyou're not allowed on board not allowedbut i gotta get onthis has been chartered by trinityyou've gotta have some room in a shipWatch at: 18:20 / 18:40this huge how about a corner somewherestop bugging us or we'll arrest youarrest me for whatwhat's going on here is there a problemcaptainuh no problem here sir go on now get outof herego aboard the ship all right uh we haveroom for you come onWatch at: 18:40 / 19:00your boss seems like a nice guyall right it's a shiny fancy shiphey uh thanks for the ride i'm fromyorkland too you knowby the way where is the ship goingmanhattanWatch at: 19:00 / 19:20no okay not not where i was expectingbut york landmanhattan it makes sense i get it[Music]i see the correlation[Music]lootthis looks like a a commercial bufferfor uh anime or somethingWatch at: 19:20 / 19:40it's kind of funny the followingscenario log has been updated a kind manstorymondo's gilded tongue has enabled you toboard the region shipall right would you like to talk with meWatch at: 19:40 / 20:00where towell i can go to cool wrong shrikeluminousmagic kingdom kyo york landdevon other or no thanks what is otheroh uh ohi don't know what have i doneWatch at: 20:00 / 20:20oh okaythe ctc building the portthe shopping mall the centralgate well i guess we'll start hereWatch at: 20:20 / 20:40oh looks like we can run around to ohthe general public is not allowed to beon thispoint this is trinity's sorry trinity'spropertyokay all right it's gonna get on out ofhereit doesn't look like i can go like outof the towni guess the shopping mall i don't thinkWatch at: 20:40 / 21:00we have that much moneyi suppose we'll seecheck just check this body type out toourban for youi mean it's sort of a robot planeso how urban that is butsure or not sure i i don't really knowWatch at: 21:00 / 21:20hello hello you look you'll look lovelywith any of our itemsoh yeah yeah i got 100 credits iam not going to be able to afford any ofyour items i apologizewasting your time ma'am uh-huhcool can i yep i can walk right past allWatch at: 21:20 / 21:40rightsorry uh what you gots to saywhat should i get i want pearls but ialso want some new clothes toookay what this hellothis tastes good wow you're right hey iWatch at: 21:40 / 22:00am loot my name is leonard nice to meetyouwhat's up leonard you want to be myfriend you wanna youhi there i thought maybe you want tojoin me because uh apparently i can'ttake on a aplata platoon or spittoon or somethingi got my booty whooped what did you talkWatch at: 22:00 / 22:20about with mondois that the the ship guy whawhat do i know you are are you with thepolice or somethingyes you're not as stupid as you look myname is fuse i work for the patrolon irpo you rode mondo's ship fromyorkland rightyep you gave me a riot seemed like aWatch at: 22:20 / 22:40nice guy to mea nice guy it's the first time someonespoke of them that waytrust me mondo is smart but not nicewell i don't know i mean that's what ithought by the way my name is lutei guess you are the guy to talk to nexttime i get a parking ticket huhWatch at: 22:40 / 23:00okay well that was weird umyeah oh sure cool bye[Music]all right uh i guess we go further upwho you hello that's it it's literallyjust hellowhat's up green haired guy great placefor shoppingWatch at: 23:00 / 23:20well i mean it can't really do anythingup here yeah yeah you said this alreadybuddywell this is very bizarre thus far umwho are you they've got pretty goodburgers over theresure you look like you're ready to fightWatch at: 23:20 / 23:40did you see a pretty girl around here idid she's right over herehey this dude over here he says you're apretty girl he's looking for you nowell i mean i feel like we're batting athousand right nownot real sure where we need to be goingbutwe'll walk around we'll figure somestuff out there's the port again let'sWatch at: 23:40 / 24:00go to the ctc buildingsounds badokayhellogood morning good morningWatch at: 24:00 / 24:20uhsurehow does one use the elevatorhey uh don't okay nothingWatch at: 24:20 / 24:40good morning well that doesn't seem tohelp me that muchdoesn't look like there's anything tointeract with so whydo i do i just leaveor two go back to york landWatch at: 24:40 / 25:00[Music]i don't i don't really knowthere's no clear indications to what i'msupposed to be doing but again that'skind of the beauty of the open world inthis rightso it looks like i can go following someabout chance encounters what does thatmeanWatch at: 25:00 / 25:20you decide to travel to various regionslook for thecaptain and aomi ohwell i'm back here is anybody gonna sayanything about me coming backdude that's how you still talk aboutWatch at: 25:20 / 25:40your sister braiding your hair huhoh we're in the way still you guys stilldancing and just having a good time youwon't letpoor rudolph play in any of yourreindeer games it's all right i don'twant to play any reindeer games anywayshe still doesn't want me home soapparently not only have i decided toleave home i've been kicked out of myhomeand mama's not happy anything to sayWatch at: 25:40 / 26:00thunder big broyeah what's new thunder that voice bigbroyou came back to us what a fix can't goback home nowcome on take me what yesyes thunder joined the party okayoh now i'm gonna go fight someWatch at: 26:00 / 26:20dude's huge like he looked like a gianti don't knowangry red ape oops it did not mean to gothat directionexcuse me whoopsieall right let's go see what we got[Music]Watch at: 26:20 / 26:40himusic just good all right he doesn'tlook that big thereuh i'm gonnai'm gonna move to the backoh god yeah oh no he is massive allWatch at: 26:40 / 27:00right sothat's different all right the platoonpusslet's try to hit him and then we havemonster abilitiesintercepting flealightning pierce or the faintWatch at: 27:00 / 27:20let's try a faint strike your enemiesvitals and flick stunohwe stunned him i got double vertical idon't even know what that means do wejumpam i going to survive thisWatch at: 27:20 / 27:40i'll try a double vertical well againnot real sure what that meansuh but we did stun them let's trylightning pierceoh he attacked okay so we absolutelycould have gotten wreckedoh that's sick okay we did tremendousWatch at: 27:40 / 28:00damage therenice we defeated something yeah you seethatmonster ability thunder platoon puss[Music]absorbed beakwhat huh wait whoa whatwhat he was and now whatWatch at: 28:00 / 28:20why is he a triceratops thingwell something similar to what the heckare you know what it's fineuh concentration increased vitalityincreasedhp increase these all seem like goodthing wp increase i received 15 creditsWatch at: 28:20 / 28:40why is he not what he wasi'm so confused see it still shows himthere he's got462 hpwe apparently have 10 out of 11wp i'm not sure what our lp isWatch at: 28:40 / 29:00laser points um apparentlywe have some new combat thingwe've got double vertical soldier enemyfrom above carving them from stem tosternoh we can okay that's interesting andthenWatch at: 29:00 / 29:20what is seal and why is it listed overthere and we can'toh wait what a seali'm very confuseduh equipment weWatch at: 29:20 / 29:40have some equipment it's not super greatbut we we have some stuffall right well very strange let's getinto another fightlooks like we heal after every battleagain i'm trying to stay in the back andlet him stay in the frontWatch at: 29:40 / 30:00in hopes that we surviveyeah he's just that thing now i amso confusedi'll hit him with a beak i guess platoonpussWatch at: 30:00 / 30:20ow got a double vertical i guess thebeak didn't do anything[Music]well the lightning appears again itworked really well last timeWatch at: 30:20 / 30:40oh yeah it worked real well this time istill have no idea how much hp thoseguys haveor why he's this andnow i can confirm and switch himcouldn't absorb anythingbut our strength increased vitality anddo we get hp2 nopehow much did our hp increase couldn'thave been that much rightWatch at: 30:40 / 31:00uh it was only by sevenall right well we'll continue to do acouple more battles maybe just one morebattle then we'll break off the uhfirst episode i'm very intrigued by allthis it seems very strange to me buti'm here for it no idea why he changedhis shape i'm so confusedWatch at: 31:00 / 31:20i mean i don't see a reason to notlightning pierson ijust go straight murk him straight up[Music]i just hope that we keep getting someexperience for luke because hehe needs he needs some helpcan't absorb anything strength in hpWatch at: 31:20 / 31:40well you know what that one so quicklylet's do one more just just just for thelullsall right seems pretty straightforwardagainWatch at: 31:40 / 32:00pierce it's just gonna obliterate himagain yep914 so he definitely has less than 914hp[Music]there's nothing to absorb are they allthe same strength concentrationvitality and hp i'm hoping likedefensively we're getting stronger tooWatch at: 32:00 / 32:20because i feel like that's kind of arequirement it is interesting to seelike there'splaces to go like it's not just thislittle map where we just walk into theseweird the weird eyeball things i'm notgonna lie or very off-puttingbut you know i'm here for it i like thefact that there are random encountersbut you get to choose which randomencounter you want to takeWatch at: 32:20 / 32:39or at least to an extent you can chooseyour path through if you're trying toget somewhere specificlet'syeah let's just we'll just keep we mightas well just keep goingit's not broken and we're not runningout of any of this extra stuff there'sno reason to try to quote unquote fix itso i'd like to see if ourWatch at: 32:39 / 33:00brother will level up at any point[Music]again strength hp wp and how is he ourbrother if he's a monsterwe're human i don't know a lot ofunanswered questions guys and gals but ifeel like that's a pretty decent startfor today and what we're doing in theworld ofsaga frontier remastered once again aWatch at: 33:00 / 33:20big shout out and a thank you to squareenix for hooking me upand sending this code my way andallowing me to cover this on the channelit means so much to me thank you so muchah it feels it feels good after you knowseven and a half years doing thisto you know catch the eye every once ina while of somebody that i've beenWatch at: 33:20 / 33:39pursuing for a long time it just itfeels really niceanyway folks if you want moreinformation about the game where to getthe game information on the developer orany of that stuff down below in thedescription of the video there'll bevarious linksi'll try to link you to all thedifferent platforms and all that stuffso you guys can makethe choice that you want to make to grabthe game itself and of course if youguys arechecking out the channel for the veryfirst time or just checking out thisWatch at: 33:39 / 34:00videoplease subscribe it helps metremendously like the video and commentguys and girls i want to know yourthoughts on the gamei want to know if you're a veteran ofthe series if you played it if youplayed any parts of itif you like the series uh is thissomething i should be looking forward tois there a lot of cool stuff coming likeengage with me i'm i'm really curiousguys and girls and i would love to seethis video do well it would mean a lotWatch at: 34:00 / 34:20to meand again hopefully uh will help thingsgo smoother in the future as wellalright folks uh so youtube algorithmstuffhelp me out and until the very nextepisode thanks for stopping by the freakshowi have been your host bumpy mcsquiggumswe play we fightwe conquerWatch at: 34:20 / 34:40[Music][Applause][Music]Watch at: 34:40 / 35:00you
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So I used to play SaGa Frontier all the time back in the day, and lemme tell ya… you picked the absolute worst character for sense of direction. A close second would've been Asellus–at least not accounting for any changes the remaster may have made.
There is absolutely 0 shame in going to look at the half page–it is literally just half a page–guide on gameFAQs on what you're supposed to do, because I doubt Lute's quest was touched much considering what I just saw in this video, but in case you want to soldier on? I'll just vaguely post about what you need to do here, but you really should consider just looking at the guide:
Notice how the game just dumped you in Manhattan?
Notice how you had 0 prompt to go visit and speak to Fuse despite doing so being vital to the quest?
Notice how talking to Fuse gave you 0 direction on where to go or what to do next?
Because if it's like the original?
The NPC you're supposed to recruit? Not in Manhattan, has nothing to do with Manhattan, and when you speak to them and choose to recruit them they say nothing in particular that would signify that they were vital to Lute's quest or have advanced his quest in any meaningful way.
And the 2nd NPC that you can recruit that is unique to Lute's quest is in some completely different location just sitting there and there is no rhyme, reason, or any indication whatsoever that speaking to that NPC would advance Lute's quest unless you just knew that NPC isn't usually there by playing other quests and even then you might not have noticed the difference!
I mean to be fair… you can get Lute on the path to the final boss fight in… like 15ish minutes if that… if you already know what you're doing. You'd get creamed because, as you saw, Lute almost got spanked by a battle rank 1 enemy and the final boss of the quest is significantly more powerful than that, but I'm just sayin'.
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What Lute is particularly good for as a character is just being free to wander around and engage with all the optional content in the game. Some character quests put restrictions on what you can do while Lute is pretty much free to just do whatevs whenevs.
My tip for you is to pursue the gaining the gifts for various schools of magic in the game scattered across the regions. These side quests give you access to a wide variety of neat and cool characters, give you rhyme and reason to battle and level up, and it's something to do if you just want to aimlessly see if you can't happen to stumble upon the NPCs on your own without the guide.
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I still strongly recommend using the guide. And I'd still recommend doing these side quests even with the guide.
But at the end of the day, I don't wanna backseat game ya.
Do you, my man, and best of luck.
Haven't played any of the actual Saga games, but the Final Fantasy Legend games have Monster classes. In those games, when you defeat monsters, you can have the chance of them dropping meat. If your monster eats the meat, they can change form, gaining new stats and abilities. It looks like this uses a similiar mechanic, although you seem to be keeping the original sprite when outside of combat.
So humans are very straight forward on how to level up and grow in strength. Use magic? Magic stats go up sometimes after battle. Use physical/weapon/martial arts skills? Physical skills go up.
Monsters are anything but.
You want to figure it out on your own? I really wouldn't recommend it, but if so? Then stop reading here.
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Basically monsters only grow in strength when they absorb a defeated monster.
Absorbing a defeated monster gives your monster party member one of the skills off of the wild monster's skill table.
It is important to note that your monster party member has a chance to absorb ANY skill that monster has in it's skill table.
If you see a monster in the wild use a skill against you? You could potentially learn it yourself from that monster.
Some skills are more unlikely to be gained than others though, and sometimes it's easier to get a skill you're looking for from a different kind of monster.
What do I mean?
Well, when your monster absorbs a skill? The game takes a quick look at what skills your monster has in it's skill table and then shapeshifts him.
I mean you killed a platoonpus and got it's "beak" skill… and yet you turned into a dinosaur. The hint here is that "beak" is a skill both monsters have.
The shapeshifted form you get is contingent on the skill table the wild variant of that monster would have.
The ultimate goal with building an amazing monster party member is to know what skills really freakin' cool high leveled monsters have and then hunt down the skills for that table so that your monster will turn into them–good luck doing that without a guide or prior knowledge–and if you want to be extra cool you figure out which monsters are best to absorb those skills from which may not actually be from fighting the specific monster you're hoping to turn into.
Also?
For every unique skill a monster learns? They get a permanent bonus to their max HP. It's really hard to tell though because the bonus is small and if your monster is shapeshifting all over their place then their current max HP total reflects more their current form than anything else but it is worth getting new skills for your monster for the bonus.
A "unique skill" is a new skill the monster has never had in it's skill table before. I mean if you learnt beak, got rid of beak, and learnt it again? You'd only get the bonus once despite absorbing two skills total.
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Oh, and uh… if you open up your monster's skill table… you'll notice a bunch of green slots and a red slot at the bottom. When you absorb a new skill? It appears on the red slot at the bottom. To keep the skill? Move it to any green slot. If you don't move a skill you absorbed off of the red slot? Even if the rest of your skill table is completely empty save for the base skills the monster came with? The skill in the red slot will be overwritten if you do manage to absorb a new monster skill and nothing sucks worse than finally learning that one rare monster skill and forgetting to "lock it in" y'know?
17:17 – <70 damage when you only have 80 HP.> Welcome to SaGa Frontier.
25:10 – That story log wasn't in the original game. I think they put it in here to be merciful.
Congrats on making inroads with square enix! That is awesome. Well done 🙂
Let's GO! I'm just waiting to get out of work to start playing this underrated gem.
Thanks so much for playing this, Bumpy!
Master Lute
Try not grinding too much as monsters scale with your own power. Just do it when you know what you are doing.
28:38 LP is LifePoints. If Main Character gets 0LP it's Game Over , if happens to other members, with 0LP , cannot fight even if healed , until go to the Inn.
WP is WeaponPoints , it's like MP but for Weapon Skills.
JP is JutsuPoints (in Japanese, not sure for English) is for Magic Skills.
0HP members can be healed with any Heal items/spells but LP will take 1 damage each time you fall in battle.
Damaged LP and lowered WP and JP can be restored fully in inns.