romancing saga 1 (sfc) thoughts

when i decided to undertake the saga journey, i thought the series was just the "galaxy brain video games engineered by the madman who gave us final fantasy 2". but after going through 30-40 hours of this nightmarish buggy game with kino moments, i realized i was playing a work brimming with sheer genius.

it's jank, but it is doing something more radical than i or many western game critics gave it credit for. i thought RS1 was doing things that jrpgs and crpgs can ever dream of.

it was giving me my own journey. my own story to tell.

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