Romancing SaGa, originally published by Square in 1992 for the Super Famicom, offers a role-playing system unconventional for its time: the player chooses among eight possible protagonists, each with their own starting point, while the world advances on an event logic independent of the player's actions, making every playthrough substantially different. The WonderSwan Color version, ported by Kan Navi and released in 2001, is an expanded edition that restores content that hadn't fit on the original Super Famicom cartridge due to memory limitations, and adds the ability to run to avoid random encounters. It stands as one of Square's most ambitious bets on Bandai's handheld, at a time when the company was still figuring out how to bring its more experimental RPG systems to portable formats.
If you liked this one
