The complex mechanics are not intuitive or taught anywhere in the game. Romancing SaGa 3 is as heavy on mechanics as Final Fantasy VI is on plot. Weird seeing someone in this graphic style NOT riding a chocobo. Having one of your party slots permanently occupied by an abrasive little girl or a spoony bard tends to put a crimp on party customization. Even more annoying, some of these characters will forcibly join your party after talking with them once and refuse to leave. There are almost two dozen recruitable characters scattered throughout the world, but they rarely have in-depth backstories and feel interchangeable. It’s a perfectly adequate localization hampered by the fact that the characters and plot are generally not well developed. Multiple playthroughs are necessary to see everything Romancing SaGa 3 has to offer, facilitated in this remake thanks to a newly added New Game + option.Īs far as the new official translation goes, it’s okay.

This structure also means that it’s easy to miss recruitable characters or potentially exciting events. It ends up feeling like an entire game of lightweight side quests and mini-games. The idea of an open-world 16-bit JRPG was intriguing to me at first, but soon disappointed. Rather than a traditional narrative, you set out to make your own plot, going from town to town, solving problems, and more or less stumbling into the main conflict randomly. Each character has a unique opening section, with their stories converging soon after the prologue. You start out picking one of eight characters, split evenly male and female. Despite this fantastic central story concept, it rarely comes into play during the game.

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