New screenshots from this week's Famitsu
It is a great time for fans of Square Enix’s SaGa series! Romancing SaGa 2 was ported to multiple platforms and released worldwide. SaGa: Scarlet Grace was the first new entry in the series in over 11 years when it was released on the PlayStation Vita in Japan in 2016. Basically, it feels like it is experiencing a renaissance. Which means it is a good time to review what makes it so special.
Another fantastic series to add in is the Mana series especially titles like Seiken Densetsu known here as Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana a legendary Action Rpg, Seiken Densetsu 3 and that's the best known of the mana series
Emperors SaGa is the latest game in Akitoshi Kawazu’s SaGa series to come out this September in Japan. It is a mobile title headed for smartphones, and Square Enix is teaming up with GREE for this free-to-play entry in the series. In the game, you will take control of an Emperor who is tasked with saving the world from some sort of ‘crisis.’ Supposedly, the game will feature characters and enemies from previous SaGa games, and will boast a new card-battle system.
To someone who has poured hours into the free roaming, hardcore experience that is SaGa Frontier, this news comes as…bittersweet. On one hand, I pretty much thought Square Enix had declared this series as dead. On the other, I am happy to feed on the crumbs of any new kind of SaGa game. To my surprise, I had found out that there were several remakes of the early SaGa titles for the Nintendo DS. Unfortunately, those were Japan-exclusive. OpRainfall’s Jonathan Higgins wrote an article dealing with that topic.
SaGa is a series that has been continually misunderstood in America. I hope one day that it has a chance again for success. I loved SaGa Frontier.
I remember playing the first Saga and was completly thrown off by the presentation. But once I started playing this game it was brilliant.
Love the SaGa series.
I hope it comes here. Hopefully it's released for iOS and Android here like Final Fantasy Legends (Dimensions).
Holy crap a new SaGa game!? A little disappointed that it's a mobile game but I hope we get a PSN release of 1 and 2.
Russ finds the best deals on RPGs, ranging from a SaGa 2 DS discount, to an Atlus PSN sale and more.
SaGa 2 (called Final Fantasy Legend II, original Game Boy in the US) was a great game and it's sad that it won't come to the US. I can udnerstand the decision though; it probably wouldn't sell very well. :(
Does the Atlus PSN sale incude Demon's Souls and 3D Dot? Holy crap if so....
And what of Persona 3 Portable?
"The last SaGa game, The Last Remnant (yeah I said it), didn’t do too well."
lol I have yet to play it, but I hear the 360 version has major fps issues (and I've seen the gameplay, it is crucial for the real time stuff) I might consider stealing my cousin's PC lol
The PC version is a massive improvement over the 360 version (which is unplayable).
There are still loading issues though. That being said, it's been 2 years since i last played it so there might be a patch to fix it.
