SaGa Series Discussion

[Jinn]

So getting it for Vita might be preferable if no patches arrive?

It depends. The port isn't that bad except for the UI elements that are going to be present in the Vita version anyways. At least with the PC version there may be an opportunity to mod such things out in the future. I myself am happy to have supported a game such as this coming to PC, but do think it was a lazy and thoughtless port job in the end.

I played it a little past the goblins place.

You'll want to play further before proclaiming this is "a little too basic" as far as saga games go. Don't let the fact that you don't have several different characters to pick from in the beginning trick you into thinking this is a simple SaGa game. Game is gud.

I wanted to add one more thing about the translation as it was mentioned earlier in the thread: it's not that bad, and actually pretty good in some parts. I've seen much worse "professional" localizations in the past.

 

[eric__s]

Calling it here, this is GOTY 2017.

 

[Jinn]

Just wanted to share some of the beautiful original artwork by Tomomi Kobayashi.

Leon

Gerard

Final Male Emperor

Bear

Orion

And a few more.

Spoiler

Monk

Jubei

Cat

Hiraga

Coppellia

Shigen

Free Mage

Iris

Eirik

Desert Guard

Have always really loved this style, along with Yoshitaka Amano's. I want to make an avatar collection of some of these for the codex, but it's hard to tell if they would even get added.

 

[Dyskolos]

Final Male Emperor

Final form for all things should be David Bowie

 

[jungl]

artwork cool shame everything else looks ripped from ps1 rpg maker.

 

[SpaceDriftingGrimoire]

Rather surprised but very glad this is available for official purchase on our end of the pond on these systems. Here's to hoping for good support and further releases!

 

[newtmonkey]

I bought this thinking I could get over the port issues, but I simply couldn't and refunded it. Will repurchase if they ever update it (even if just to get rid of the constant touchscreen controls on screen).
(I was also triggered by inconsistent sprite, menu, and background resolution, but was willing to overlook it in this case).

Hopefully they do the right thing and put a little more effort into this.

 

[Jinn]

I bought this thinking I could get over the port issues, but I simply couldn't and refunded it. Will repurchase if they ever update it (even if just to get rid of the constant touchscreen controls on screen).
(I was also triggered by inconsistent sprite, menu, and background resolution, but was willing to overlook it in this case).

Hopefully they do the right thing and put a little more effort into this.

I noticed your location is Japan. If that's true, do you happen to speak/read Japanese?

 

[newtmonkey]

Jinn
I do speak/read Japanese!

 

[Jinn]

Jinn
I do speak/read Japanese!

Ah. You must have had the ability to play Romancing SaGa 2 on SNES then.

For me, the port issues are more of a minor annoyance in the face of such an incredibly good game. If I had played the game in it's original form, I might not be able to stomach the changes either.

Speaking of how good this game is, I'm on my forth generation of Emperor incarnate and have hit a definite difficulty spike. This game does not roll out the red carpet. I'm getting slapped around left and right. But I won't be deterred! The brawler Emperor DYNAMITE will persevere!

Party Assembled!



Alright!

 

[newtmonkey]

Jinn
I was willing it give it a chance to reward Square Enix for finally releasing the game in English, but knowing that I can just go play the SFC version without a problem if wanted to/got around to it (even on actual hardware on a CRT so that it would look great) made it harder to accept the quality of the port.

 

[Dyskolos]

Jinn
I was willing it give it a chance to reward Square Enix for finally releasing the game in English, but knowing that I can just go play the SFC version without a problem if wanted to/got around to it (even on actual hardware on a CRT so that it would look great) made it harder to accept the quality of the port.

I think some fans are hoping the translation text can be extracted and plugged into the rom of the original version - at which point they're mostly justifying purchase as paying for the translation. I haven't had time to start this yet but if that becomes an option it's how I'm going - even if I'll still lack the CRT.

 

[deama]

So is the game any good?

 

[Jinn]

So is the game any good?

Game is gud.

For me, the port issues are more of a minor annoyance in the face of such an incredibly good game.

Speaking of how good this game is,

 

[LESS T_T]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/606370/announcements/detail/1598081006348333106

A Message from the Development Team

We sincerely appreciate all of your feedback and are investigating the various concerns. Please stay tuned for updates.


Thank you,

The Romancing SaGa 2 Team

 

[LESS T_T]

Hey, apparently the phone UI can be disabled now. They should have put changelist or something there.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

I seem to have gotten old.
Romancing RSaga 3 with its haphazard fan translation on snes had me playing for more than a dozen hours continuously on weekends when I was a kid.

Now 2nd gen pc in RSaga 2 is buttraping me.

Still; objectively RSaga 2 is a better game than Rsaga 3 and i love it.

 

[Jinn]

Hey, apparently the phone UI can be disabled now. They should have put changelist or something there.

Hey, this a great news! However, I can't seem to find where to disable it in the options. Could you please link where you found this information?

 

[LESS T_T]

Hey, apparently the phone UI can be disabled now. They should have put changelist or something there.

Hey, this a great news! However, I can't seem to find where to disable it in the options. Could you please link where you found this information?

Welllll, for some reason they did rollback the update. Here is a Japanese guy's screenshot showing the option to disable the UI, and after the rollback he realized the option is gone.

Probably the patch isn't supposed to out this early. (Looking at forums, apparently the patch had introduced new crashes and freezes so maybe that's the reason of the rollback.)

 

[newtmonkey]

Once they kill the mobile UI, I am back in, and will even buy it full-price. The very definition of incline.

 

[Abu Antar]

Once they kill the mobile UI, I am back in, and will even buy it full-price. The very definition of incline.

I read that there's an option to disable it. I'll check later in the day.

 

[Abu Antar]

Once they kill the mobile UI, I am back in, and will even buy it full-price. The very definition of incline.

I read that there's an option to disable it. I'll check later in the day.

There was a patch to disable it, but when I booted up the game, the option wasn't there. It seems that the patch caused crashes when defeating certain bosses. They have rolled back and now the option isn't there (for now).

 

[LESS T_T]

Hey, apparently the phone UI can be disabled now. They should have put changelist or something there.

Hey, this a great news! However, I can't seem to find where to disable it in the options. Could you please link where you found this information?

Welllll, for some reason they did rollback the update. Here is a Japanese guy's screenshot showing the option to disable the UI, and after the rollback he realized the option is gone.

Probably the patch isn't supposed to out this early. (Looking at forums, apparently the patch had introduced new crashes and freezes so maybe that's the reason of the rollback.)

The patch with UI option is back!

Almost like timed for Christmas present. Patchnote would be appreciated though.

 

[Jinn]

The patch with UI option is back!

Almost like timed for Christmas present. Patchnote would be appreciated though.

Yeah, thank you! I got a chance to play it a little with the UI disabled and it's glorious!

 

[Red Rogue]

I absolutely cannot believe this got a release on Xbone.
In fact, I'm going to play it on the Xbone instead just because they brought it over.