If you're a fan of the SaGa series you're in for a treat, at Square Enix Live, the company revealed Romancing SaGa 3 and SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions would both be released in the west. There's no information about when exactly these games will arrive.
The third game was exclusively released in Japan in 1995 and was previously confirmed for the Switch eShop in the same region last September. SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions started out life on the PS Vita in 2016 and was then released on the Switch exclusively in Japan, last August. This particular version is the enhanced edition. Below is the official E3 2019 trailer:
And here's some additional information about each one, courtesy of Square Enix:
Romancing SaGa 3: The classic 1995 RPG finally comes west in a remastered version! Your choices matter—from your choice of hero, to branching story paths, to recruiting party members, to which skills you’ll develop. Every game, a new adventure!
SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions: Create a team of up to five capable fighters and engage in strategic turn-based combat, selecting from 9 weapon varieties, as you take on enemies.
The composition of your group affects your abilities and impacts your tactics. The choices you make will define your legacy!
Are you a fan of the Romancing SaGa series? Have you played the previous games? Tell us down in the comments.
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Woo glad I waited on importing! So many RPGs single player is still hanging on!
This puts a big giddy smiles on my face, will be getting both for the Switch. Sad that Romancing SaGa! 3 will be PS Vita's final game though.
Great that there will be an official translation of Romancing Saga 3!
YAAASSS! Romancing Saga 3 was original on the Super Famicom (SNES)--I'm loving the chance to play this 16 bit classic soon. I wish we could get more SNes for the Switch from anyone! Day one for me for sure for Saga 3!
I really wish they would rerelease more classic Enix games. The SoulBlazer trilogy, Robotrek, 7th Saga (PROPERLY PATCHED with the correct level growth)... So many choices without only going back to Square's half.
Never heard of either of these so can't wait to see what their all about.
I feel like this is a series I am vaguely aware of and probably should know more about.
Would have pre-ordered these on the sly if I wasn't saving my pennies for the imminent Senkei densetsu 3 localization, god damn, I can't wait for it.
Squeenix finally realizing they are sitting on a pile of JRPG gold. Here's hoping we get more classics released, I would particularly like a port of FF tactics, Tactics ogre and Valkyrie profile.
Come on SaGa Frontier where are you?!
I've never give anything Saga much of a chance after getting burned by Unlimited Saga.
I never played a SaGa game before. I think it’s about time I did though.
@FarkyValentine I'm not that into the series, myself, but I can say Unlimited Saga was an outlier with it's tabletop RPG aesthetics and innovative(?) monster ecosystem. It was also my first and only SaGa game, as well (even though I picked up Romancing SaGa 2 on a sale, I've yet to dive in).
The Romancing SaGa games may look very much like a product of SNES era Final Fantasy games with a dash of Chrono Trigger, but that's where the similarities end. From what I understand, SaGa games have even more characters than FF or CT, branching story lines with lots of endings based on your decisions, and very deep and complicated combat systems. Suffice to say, they're not only harder to get into than a typical Final Fantasy, but challenging to get through. So yeah, the SaGa games are typically more hardcore console RPG experiences. And I saw what they were trying to do with Unlimited SaGa, ambitious as it was. But at that point they probably shouldn't have added "SaGa" to the title because it was way too different.
@Heavyarms55 Played the Final Fantasy Legend series for Game Boy? Those were SaGa games renamed. (although FFL3 had some changes that made it much more resemble a FF game. Though I hear the Japanese DS remake reverted that to make it play like a SaGa game again.)
I was interested to play these, though after the fan-translation of the SNES version of the first game was released the programmer on that who dug into its code found the original was rather buggy (not to mention from what I heard of RS1 was it was blatantly unfinished, like missing bosses, and the WonderSwan Color port only added some missing content. Hadn't played the PS2 remake of that first game either, though I could see just by the manual that it changed stuff.)
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