![]() ![]() We also talk about Octopath Traveler, the Final Fantasy Legends name change, and most importantly: Why are Romancing SaGa 3 and SaGa: Scarlet Grace Ambitions coming to the PS Vita when the poor handheld is already stiff with rigor motris? I recently interviewed SaGa Producer Masanori Ichikawa and SaGa Director Akitoshi Kawazu about the series' second chance at life in the West, and how its revival makes them feel. The translation and release of Seiken Densetsu 3/Trials of Mana is one example the recent localization of Romancing SaGa 3 and SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions for the Switch, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita(!) is another. The full history of the SaGa series is one click away on Google, and better still, Square Enix is working hard to give us Westerners the "missing" pieces of SaGa's history. The fandoms of 2019 enjoy a comparative feast of information and access to these "lost" RPGs. Westerners missed out on some of SaGa's most beloved games, including 1995's Romancing SaGa 3 for the Super Famicom. After Legend 3, the SaGa/Final Fantasy Legend series skipped localization altogether for years, outside of sporadic, low-key releases. SaGa's gameplay is generally more open-ended and systems-based than early Final Fantasy games, so people who enjoyed Final Fantasy games found themselves perplexed about why the Game Boy installments involved force-feeding meat to mutants to help them grow. The first three SaGa games came to the Game Boy as Final Fantasy Legend, Final Fantasy Legend 2, and Final Fantasy Legend 3 between 19. ![]() Square Enix's SaGa series has examples of both practices: Its games have been both renamed and outright shunned as a translation candidate. Even titles that didn't go missing sometimes had their names crossed out and re-written, thus muddying up their histories. RPG fans generally look back on the '90s as a golden age, but there's no question that wonderful chapter of the genre's history was missing some pages in the west. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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