8 AMAZING Box-Arts That Made You Buy BAD Games

Unlimited Saga was released in 2002 and the ninth installment in the SaGa RPG franchise, which in the very least hit the market with one hell of an eye-poppingly artful cover.

The gorgeous watercolour-style visual motif, hand-scrawled logo, and neat boxed teases of the game's central characters made the game look like a classy, gorgeous entry into the hit franchise.

It didn't hurt that the style clearly recalled that of the Final Fantasy games of the era, and the prominent placement of the Square Enix logo only furthered that association.

But Unlimited Saga remains a heavily polarising release to this very day - a bewilderingly experimental RPG which largely refuses to explain its arcane combat systems to the player, lest they shell out extra dough for a guidebook.

Couple this with a horribly unintuitive user interface, and for most players Unlimited Saga felt more like doing homework than losing themselves in a grand adventure. It's certainly an interesting game, just not a very good one.