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Breath of Fire: The Capcom-Square Deal That Reshaped the JRPG
In 1994, Capcom signed a commercial agreement with Square to distribute Breath of Fire on Super Nintendo in North America. An alliance between two direct rivals, at a time when Final Fantasy VI dominated the Western JRPG landscape. This quiet pact reveals much about the power dynamics of the era and how a franchise could emerge in the shadow of a juggernaut — and still survive.
SaGa Frontier at 29: The Anti-FF7 Square Wanted to Forget
Released in 1997 the same year as Final Fantasy VII, SaGa Frontier never enjoyed the same commercial success or critical acclaim. Yet this atypical Square RPG embodied everything the PlayStation era could have produced beyond the beaten path: fragmented structure, deliberately sparse narrative, and progression freedom that was as disorienting as it was captivating. Twenty-nine years later, cult status has arrived. The question remains: why did it take so long?