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Tuesday - January 17, 2023

Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song - Review @ RPG Site

by Hiddenx, 11:44

RPG Site is impressed by Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song:

Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered Review

I've written at length several times about Square Enix's SaGa franchise, and how it offers a type of RPG experience that no other series can match. Last June I stated that "Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song is weird as heck, and it rules" and went at length attempting to define the SaGa experience and the series' focus on player discovery above all else.

I'll try not to repeat myself here, not too much. If you've been reading RPG Site for a while, you may have noticed that we have generally been pretty SaGa-friendly. SaGa Scarlet Grace Ambitions won our RPG Of The Year in 2019, beating contenders such as Disco Elysium, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. SaGa isn't for everyone, but if it clicks, it may *really* click.

Late last year, Square Enix released Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered among the dozen other games the publisher released in the quarter. Not unexpectedly, it got somewhat lost by the wayside going up against other Square Enix titles like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion and Tactics Ogre Reborn. But I wanted to give Minstrel Song its due, because it deserves it.

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The third is the addition of new boss fights that are even more difficult than the optional super boss of the original game. Due to how New Game + bonuses have been implemented into the remaster, said superboss isn't quite as hard as he was in the PS2 version, but he still is incredibly difficult to beat, requiring considerable preparation to even stand a chance. If you finally are able to beat him, *then* you'll get access to a slew of 13 new superbosses that you can face, if you want.

But what that means is that much of the new content added to Minstrel Song Remastered will only ever be seen by the most hardcore of players, whether it's overly-tailored playthroughs to access the new Aldora content, or adding challenging boss fights past an incredibly difficult superboss.

To me, it mostly feels like a missed opportunity. I would have loved to see more new events added in a casual first-run playthrough that any player might run into by happenstance in typical gameplay. But as it is, it's likely that most new content added to the remaster you'll never see, unless you *really* get sucked in. It's a minor nitpick in the end, but I can't help but feel a slightly tinge of disappointment in how this was implemented.

Romancing SaGa is not for everyone, and nor should it be. But if you want to try something new and different from typical JRPGs, give it a shot, and maybe you'll end up addicted to it.

Score: 9/10

Thursday - December 01, 2022

Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song - Release Day

by Hiddenx, 08:53

The J-RPG Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered will be released today:

Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered | Character Trailer

Monday - November 28, 2022

Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song - Review

by Hiddenx, 18:17

Noisy Pixel checked out the upcoming RPG Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song:

Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered Review – Your New Favorite JRPG; After A Significant Time Investment

The SaGa series is one that many JRPG nerds stand by as one of the standard for non-linear adventures. More often than not, I find myself in conversations with those who have played and discover the many different experiences we had. Romancing SaGa was a remake PS2 release of the Super Famicom JRPG Romancing SaGa. Although the west wouldn’t see Romancing SaGa for quite some time, this remake was all we had. Now, Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered is the remastered version of the remake, which is almost as confusing as this game can be. With that out of the way, let me introduce you to your new favorite JRPG.

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Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered breaks the rules of traditional JRPG systems. There’s a gorgeous experience waiting to be unearthed, but this requires player patience to enjoy it fully. This might be a big ask, considering other titles are much more accessible, but I can’t help be enjoy every playthrough, no matter how challenging. What’s missing is a modernized tutorial prologue for new players, if only to help ease them into the experience, but what’s here is an RPG masterpiece.

Score: 7.5/10

Information about

Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered

Developer: Square Enix

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: J-RPG
Combat: Turn-based
Play-time: Unknown
Voice-acting: Unknown

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· Platform: PC
· Released: 2022-12-01
· Publisher: Square Enix