History VideoGame / SagaFrontier

* BuxomIsBetter: Emelia [[DefiedTrope doesn't think so]]. When she reads the porno mag, she's disgusted by the star's disproportionate assets. Red, on the other hand, is quite thrilled, and [[StraightGay Asellus]] is more attracted than she wants to be. T260G simply calculates the model's measurements, then nearly crashes when trying to calculate her IQ level.

* GuideDangIt: Several of the secret characters. Sei can only be found after beating a BonusDungeon in Shrike, Suzaku can be recruited only if you beat a random BonusBoss, while you're on a certain quest, and Rei can only be obtained during Asellus' game, after you lose [[spoiler:White Rose]], if you went into her room with ''just'' White Rose early on in the game.

* JustifiedTutorial: Arguably, Blue's entire game, as his quest to master as much magic as possible is one the player is likely to repeat in every character's game.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: All the protagonists (and their supporting casts) can be found and/or recruited in every campaign in some fashion. Liza in Red's scenario even [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that he's the hero while she and the rest of Gradius (who play a central role in Emelia's story) are "just extras."

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Riki's. Turns out the rings are evil, and he has to stop them. He does so, his DoomedHometown is, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin doomed]], the inhabitants optimistically decide to just move elsewhere, and all the rings are scattered across the world (with the majority returned to where they were originally).]] In other words, going through the whole adventure accomplished absolutely nothing.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the time the game was launched, Asellus' homosexuality was ''extremely'' daring, and required massive amounts of disguise, [[HideYourLesbians ambiguity]] and [[DiscountLesbians phlebotinum]] to make it across.

* BuxomIsBetter: Emelia [[DefiedTrope doesn't think so]]. When she reads the porno mag, she's disgusted by the star's disproportionate assets. Red, on the other hand, is quite thrilled, and [[StraightGay Asellus]] is more attracted than she wants to be.

* MoodDissonance: The Bio Research Lab plays this for absolute ''[[DaylightHorror horror]]''. The color palette is very bright (even by the standards of this game), it's a beautiful, well-lit laboratory with white walls and green trees, and [[SoundtrackDissonance the music]] is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlGXCGjMeNk very beautiful and otherworldly]] - haunting, but not in itself horrifying. And then you walk into the scientists, read their lines, and [[BodyHorror hear screams as they change into monsters]] - and as you piece together just what the hell is going on with this place, all of the above just seems creepier and creepier.

* BigBadEnsemble: Each story has its own BigBad, and they mostly aren't related. ''[[AllThereInTheManual Essence]]'' indicates that [[spoiler: Mondo]] is TheManBehindTheMan to most of the others, but in the game proper there's no indication of any links between them, and the majority of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] logically ''couldn't'' be Mondo's subordinates.

* BeefGate: Early on in Asellus' game, in Chateau Augille, it's possible to find an endgame BonusBoss with ending-altering potential. Even if you're properly trained, it's a difficult fight. Trying to fight it at the point in the game where it's possible to first encounter it? Suicide.

* BuxomIsBetter: Emelia [[DefiedTrope doesn't think so]]. When she reads the porno mag, she's disgusted by the star's disproportionate assets. Red, on the other hand, is quite thrilled, and [[StraightGay Asellus]] kinda loses it for a moment.

** In addition, Red's appearance seems to be based on that of a character of the same name from a little known Squaresoft game called ''TreasureHunterG.'' There's also a Blue in that game, though he only looks somewhat similar.

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** T260 gets a "G" slapped on the end of its name after being found in a crater filled with junk, and gets used for combat almost immediately. "[[BattleAngelAlita Gally]]" was also found in a crater filled with junk and was used for combat.

So reads the back of the case for ''[=SaGa=] Frontier'', the first ''VideoGame/{{SaGa}}'' game released in North America since ''VideoGame/{{SaGa 3}}'' (aka ''Final Fantasy Legend III'') and the first one on the {{PlayStation}}. It came out March 25 1998, (July 11 '97 in Japan) and was produced by Creator/{{Square|Enix}}soft's Production Team 2 (referred to as "2nd Division" in-game.) The 75 song soundtrack was composed and arranged by Creator/KenjiIto, who also did the soundtracks for previous ''[=SaGa=]'' titles.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Two notable examples, as detailed in [[AllThereInTheManual "The Essence of Saga Frontier"]]. The first is that chronologically, Lute's quest is last, because he was too busy helping everyone else, but as a bonus, his new friends help him in his final battle. The second offers a more optimistic ending for Blue. [[spoiler: Because he remembered that there were people outside who cared about him, he musters the power to break out of Hell.]]

So reads the back of the case for ''[=SaGa=] Frontier'', the first ''VideoGame/{{SaGa}}'' game released in North America since ''VideoGame/{{SaGa 3}}'' (aka ''Final Fantasy Legend III'') and the first one on the {{PlayStation}}. It came out March 25 1998, (July 11 '97 in Japan) and was produced by {{Square|Enix}}soft's Production Team 2 (referred to as "2nd Division" in-game.) The 75 song soundtrack was composed and arranged by Creator/KenjiIto, who also did the soundtracks for previous ''[=SaGa=]'' titles.

** [[spoiler: In Riki's ending, her people lose their home, she has to kill her treacherous best friend, and her entire quest turns out to be a ShaggyDogStory because the artifact she was hoping to find was cursed to begin with. Still, her people did survive, so that's something.]]

* SheIsTheKing: Asellus is called the "Prince" of Facinaturu. This is likel due to the facts that: A)In Facinaturu, "Princess" is a term reserved for Orlouge's mistresses, and B) The Mystics don't tend to care much about gender.

** [[spoiler: Asellus' Half-Mystic ending is just a touch above a downer. She saves Gina, White Rose and probably Lion Princess, takes down Orlouge and is free of his pursuers, but is left without a place in the world and becomes a wandering adventurer, and her only tie to normality is her annual reunion with Gina, who is [[MayflyDecemberRomance growing old while she remains forever young]]. Meanwhile, in the Full Human ending, she gets to return to a normal life after saving everyone...but it's bittersweet for ''Gina'', because Asellus marries a man and never gets together with her.]]

* TheFairFolk The Mystics of ''Saga Frontier'' used to be this way, and the nobles who dwell in their hidden region still are. Though they have gotten a bit better, and for example [[TheWildHunt hunting humans for sport]] has fallen out of fashion. Lower caste mystics show the trope best, ranging in appearance from mermaids to large troll-like creatures. The higher level nobles tend to appear as beautiful humans, with the highest level, according to AllThereInTheManual being the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent True Vampires]].

* PointOfNoReturn: Hell in Blue's game, Mondo's base in Lute's, and the Black Ray in Red's. Saving in any of these places before you're trained well enough can make the game {{Unwinnable}}.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler: Diva.]]