Top 47K - The Final Fantasy Legend (SaGa) (and Half-Life 2: Episode One & Two!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Square’s first handheld RPG. Then stick around for Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two, enduring proof that Valve can’t count to three!
Today I felt super nostalgic over SaGaRS global closing and I thought to sketch Creator, my eternal frenemy ... The sketch turned into a full picture xD;
Creator is here to wish you Happy Holidays and you will have Happy Holidays. It's not optional.
The Creator has a Ryu Number of 2/does not have a Ryu Number.
(clarification below)
Just gonna make it clear upfront: I know close to nothing about any SaGa game, which would naturally include the first three that were rechristened as Final Fantasy Legend in the West, so take everything after this with however many grains of salt you deem appropriate.
The first route of 2 posits that the bosses based on the Four Symbols are actually the Four Symbols themselves, which is a slightly tricky thing to assert given some of the liberties the first SaGa games takes, like making Byakko (or Byak-Ko, as it was localized) a tiger centaur thing oppressive ruler and such.
I've chosen Seiryu here as the one that's probably the closest to the norm, but there's definitely room to disagree.
If you don't count the Four Symbol analogues, though, then it seems to be slim pickings. Ashura gets you to the other early SaGa games, but I'm even less inclined to count the likes of Apollo and Isis. The DS remake of SaGa 2 does have characters named after the nine Greek muses, but those seem to be in-name-only kind of deal.
There are also doesn't seem to be any eligible connections between those SaGa games and the Romancing SaGa games, which could maybe get you to Final Fantasy via Dimensions, maybe? (Which, incidentally, also has characters based on the Four Symbols since it's pretty well-established the extent to which FF treats mythologies like free real estate. Here's their Seiryu.)
The main takeaway is that if there are any SaGaheads hashing this out elsewhere, you should probably listen to them.