Romancing SaGa 3
The celebrated RPG classic comes west for the first time! Developed by industry veterans including the legendary developer Akitoshi Kawazu, Romancing SaGa™ 3 was originally released in Japan in 1995. This HD remaster of the legendary RPG masterpiece introduces optimized graphics, a new dungeon to explore, new scenarios and a new game+ function. Select one of the 8 unique protagonists and embark on an epic adventure defined by your own choices!
Once every 300 years, the Rise of Morastrum—an event where the dark star blocks out the sun—threatens the very existence of our world. All born in that year are doomed to perish before its end. Whether man or beast, none have a chance at survival.
However, there came a time when a sole child did survive. He was entranced by the power of death, using it to conquer the world. He came to be known as the Archfiend. Yet one day, he simply vanished.
Another 300 years passed, and again a child defied fate. She did not give in to the same powers that controlled the Archfiend, and came to be known as the Matriarch.
It has been nearly two decades since the previous rising of Morastrum, and 300-odd years since the appearance of the Matriarch. Humanity now stands at the fulcrum between hope and despair.
Will there be another child of destiny? Will the child be righteous, evil, or another force that the world cannot fathom?
Romancing SaGa 3 Review
The game itself is a classic, one of the best SNES era RPGs that never got an official western release until now. For the most part you have an enormous amount of freedom on how to progress through the game, with a almost Suikoden level of recruitable characters, lots of optional sub-quests, and a large degree of control in character customization.
The game, of course, is a SAGA game with all its quirks. Meaning you have a really unorthadox levelling system, potential permadeath (though it’s a very small risk since you can easily recover LP unlike RS2), and sometimes annoying RNG impacting skill progression. There’s good and bad to it like any system, it just takes some getting used to. HP fully recovering at the end of fights is frankly a very welcome plus I’d like to see in more RPGs, as it eliminates the need for boring healbot characters.
If you’ve played this before, this particular version offers greatly improved graphics, expanded dialogue and events for some characters, and of course an official translation. The character sprites and are still clearly pretty low-res, but the spell and skill effects have been vastly upgraded, bosses are animated, and the UI looks sharp. They learned from the mistakes of the RS2 port and this actually feels like a proper console/PC port rather than a mobile game. For PC users there’s…mostly full KB+mouse support. You can rebind keys in game, but like many ports as of late your options are partially limited to certain keys. It’s fine though, you can still make a comfortable arrangement and the defaults are actually reasonable. There’s also an option to remove the new events and features if you really want to.
Some may balk at $36 CDN for such an old game, but this is an excellent game with good replay value. If you’re in the mood for old school jRPG and don’t mind the SAGA quirks I’d recommend it.
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