Franchise crossover gacha games have a way of taking mechanics from their respective series and flattening them into fig leaves to be placed in front of the "real" game. That is to say, always roughly the same incremental meta-progression engine meant to be run over months and years.
This is often detrimental, but with the SaGa series, there's a strange alchemy at work. The thing is, SaGa games have their charms but they're rarely GOOD in a traditional sense. At best they're cool and experimental, at worst they feel like beta builds that accidentally shipped. In a weird way, putting the best parts of SaGa games (neat characters, off-beat gameplay systems, Kenji Ito bangers) into a generic gacha template actually ENHANCES the experience. It doesn't make it great; gacha is what it is, but it's all weirdly... potable?
This is often detrimental, but with the SaGa series, there's a strange alchemy at work. The thing is, SaGa games have their charms but they're rarely GOOD in a traditional sense. At best they're cool and experimental, at worst they feel like beta builds that accidentally shipped. In a weird way, putting the best parts of SaGa games (neat characters, off-beat gameplay systems, Kenji Ito bangers) into a generic gacha template actually ENHANCES the experience. It doesn't make it great; gacha is what it is, but it's all weirdly... potable?