As the second new imagination of the original game in a decade, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven almost seems like an act of atonement for not bestowing its source material upon English audiences back in the 90s. SaGa is a unique series, a spiritual offshoot of Final Fantasy II that began as Square’s attempt to get in on the Game Boy’s popularity. Western gamers got to experience the original handheld trilogy (called Final Fantasy Legend in English) and its PlayStation descendant, SaGa Frontier, but the middle installments were stuck on Super Famicom for many years.
Luckily for JRPG fans, this cornerstone of the genre is no longer lost to the appendices of history.
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven, not to be confused with the epithet-less 2D remaster that landed on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 back in 2017, is a full 3D remake of the 1993 cult classic. True to just about any game overseen by SaGa creator Akitoshi Kawazu, it features a unique... Read more