I keep hearing about this game? What makes it good?

[moshiwakeda]

Should I play the first one?

[AliceShiki]

Like Final Fantasy, SaGa games aren't connected to one another, so... No need to play other games in the franchise unless they interest you.

As for what makes it good... Let's see...

The main thing is gameplay. It's a turn-based game, but with a pretty unique system overall. There are plenty of interesting abilities to play with, working with enemy weaknesses/resistances is nice, knowing which status aliments to use helps a lot... It's fun.

Building your characters, choosing your weapons, skills, spells, what classes you wanna use in each generation and the like are all pretty fun things to do too. And the timeskip system definitely makes the experience fairly unique, overall.

Story is simple and straight-forward. I like the story, but don't expect a Final Fantasy/Persona experience out of it. The focus of the SaGa franchise is not the story.

Soundtrack is awesome, voice acting is pretty cool, translation is mostly solid (a handful of small mistakes exist here and there, but nothing big)...

Overall, I just enjoy the whole experience~

[Sel Und Irae]

Originally posted by AliceShiki:

Like Final Fantasy, SaGa games aren't connected to one another, so... No need to play other games in the franchise unless they interest you.

As for what makes it good... Let's see...

The main thing is gameplay. It's a turn-based game, but with a pretty unique system overall. There are plenty of interesting abilities to play with, working with enemy weaknesses/resistances is nice, knowing which status aliments to use helps a lot... It's fun.

Building your characters, choosing your weapons, skills, spells, what classes you wanna use in each generation and the like are all pretty fun things to do too. And the timeskip system definitely makes the experience fairly unique, overall.

Story is simple and straight-forward. I like the story, but don't expect a Final Fantasy/Persona experience out of it. The focus of the SaGa franchise is not the story.

Soundtrack is awesome, voice acting is pretty cool, translation is mostly solid (a handful of small mistakes exist here and there, but nothing big)...

Overall, I just enjoy the whole experience~

Better question is . . Was the first game good compared to this?

[Maverick81PL]

Originally posted by moshiwakeda:

Should I play the first one?

I have 15h on this game for now.. its amazing. Unique. And gameplay is nice. IF you have Steam Deck then game runs at 60FPS in max settings ;-)

[moshiwakeda]

OK, I will try it

[AliceShiki]

Originally posted by Sel Und Irae:

Better question is . . Was the first game good compared to this?

I never played SaGa 1, but I didn't hear good things about it. Seems like they were still figuring out what they wanted to do back then.

People say better stuff about SaGa 2, but it's still not recommended much.

And SaGa 3 wasn't even made by Kawazu and doesn't feel like a SaGa entry at all, so most people recommend skipping it.

If you want to play an earlier entry, you could try playing Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song, or the remaster of Romancing SaGa 2 and of Romancing SaGa 3.

SaGa Frontier 1 is also available here on Steam and it feels similar to Romancing SaGa 3, so you could go with that.

Dunno much about Scarlet Grace and Emerald Beyond though.

[moshiwakeda]

Originally posted by AliceShiki:

If you want to play an earlier entry, you could try playing Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song, or the remaster of Romancing SaGa 2 and of Romancing SaGa 3.

Wait isn't this the remaster of Romancing Sage 2, or is Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven a different game?

[AliceShiki]

Originally posted by moshiwakeda:

Wait isn't this the remaster of Romancing Sage 2, or is Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven a different game?

The Remaster of Romancing SaGa 2 was released in 2017, you can find it here on Steam, and it's usually pretty cheap. I think it might be on sale right now, even. The Remaster is basically the exact same as the original game, but it added an optional dungeon, 2 new classes and one super-short event. Everything else is basically the same as the original... Aside from the fact it was actually translated to English, that is.

Revenge of the Seven is a Remake of Romancing SaGa 2. It's not exactly a different game, since it still has the same events and story, and many of the systems and formulas are still the same, but they also changed quite a few things, like improved graphics, completely re-done maps and bosses, things are 3D now, there is voice acting now, you can see the memories of the Seven Heroes now, the Timeline and Overdrive systems are new... And so on.

Revenge of the Seven is nice because it feels very similar to the original while also feeling different enough to be its own thing... It manages to both be a new experience while also having that good nostalgic feeling that I'm once again playing that game I really loved.

[Chester]

The naming conventions of this series can be very confusing. There's the original releases, Final Fantasy Legend 1-3, also called Saga 1-3. Then there's Romancing Saga 1-3. Then there's Saga Frontier 1-2. Also Unlimited Saga. Oh, and Emperor's Saga, not to be confused with Imperial Saga or Imperial Saga Eclipse. And Gaga Saga: The Quest for Kulaga, created by Cary Joji Fuku-naga.

Oh and some of those games have Remasters. And this game is a Remake.

...a look at the Saga Wiki may help if this gets a little too confusing.

[moshiwakeda]

Thanks for the explanations. I just bought the remake then. I think I'll start it when I'm done with Trails of Cold Steel IV