

K ind of.Īt its heart, Romancing SaGa is a turn-based JRPG with a battle system similar enough to other games in the genre of that time, but there are enough differences and peculiarities to make it stand out on its own and have that distinct feeling for the series. Romancing SaGa is an open-world JRPG, from a time when open-world games were mostly unheard of (especially open-world JRPGs)! This game decided to change things up by not taking the usual linear pacing of other JRPGs of the time and instead allowing players to progress at their own pace. Romancing SaGa is an interesting game, especially for its time. Length: 25~35 Hours Romancing SaGa SFC/SNES Review Style: Japanese Role-playing Game (Turn-based)

Let’s find out exactly what we missed out on! Romancing SaGa is the first game in a trilogy that took standard JRPG gameplay and ran in a whole different direction than the other games in the genre at the time. Sadly, the Romancing SaGa series remained mostly unknown to the West until the PS1-PS2 era. The early releases came to the West under the name Final Fantasy Legend for the Game Boy, but as far as official “SaGa” releases go we never got any until SaGa Frontier for the PlayStation. The SaGa series is a series from Square that never truly made its way outside of Japan.
