Square Enix's seemingly endless quest to revive the SaGa series continues, this time with Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered. As the name suggests, this is a remaster of Minstrel Song, which was a PS2 remake of the original Romancing SaGa, complete with a lovely 3D art style and somewhat creepy, puppet-like character models. It's coming to both PS5 and PS4 this winter.
Minstrel Song was never released in Europe, so this'll be a completely new experience for a lot of players. Alongside enhanced visuals, the remaster also promises "new quality of life features to improve playability, and new gameplay features", but there are no additional details on those just yet.
Hopefully Square Enix does a better job remastering this one than it did with the recent Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition. The publisher's got an iffy track record when it comes to rejuvenating its old games, but at least the trailer and screenshots for Minstrel Song show a lot of promise.
Did you ever play Minstrel Song on PS2? Sing for yourself in the comments section below.
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Have never played this, or any other Romancing Saga games (other then the gacha game). I do own 2 for Switch however (bloody backlog).
I am honestly glad that Square Enix is going all-in on bringing out these older games, even if their remasters are a bit hit or miss at times.
Not a fan of that art style, but I am impressed with Square’s ability to churn out so many games this year for people of all tastes and styles (mostly in the jrpg genre).
Man this game looks ugly, I think il stick to the original
I'm usually easy on art styles, even like chibi and the claymation type style of Bravely Default 2, but I can conclusively say that this is one of the ugliest games I've ever seen. These face models are horrendous to look at😂
It's a weird choice of art style. I'm all for disproportionate / exaggerated features heavily influenced by chibi style manga / anime, but there's something off here... it kind of looks like a jpeg image has been wrapped around the head & stretched...
Effing what? This game was terrible! I mean, if ever there was a game that did not deserve a remaster…
I Think Unlimited Saga Was Worse.
It's mind boggling to me how square keeps pushing this series almost no one cares about and hasn't been good in more than 20 years.
It looks as if it runs at 10 fps. Joke
The hate towards Chrono Cross Remastered is so ridiculous from this site. Yest, the framerate was not good but the character models looked fantastic and the filters they added to the backgrounds looked beautiful (like paintings). Way better than the awful pixelated smears the FF8 and FF9 Remasters did to the OG backgrounds.
The character models be are so bad they’re actually fun(ny). If it’s any good I’ll give it a go as long as the whole saga is available. Will be way down my backlog though.
this game was very well known for being absolute trash in the ps2 era, along with unlimited saga. why s-e keeps remasting games nobody cares about is beyond me. instead of remaking stone cold classics like parasite eve and vagrant story, it has dug deep into its D-tier catalogue of legacy titles. even a classic like chrono cross got a lazy remaster when it deserved so much more. this company just can't seem to get back on its feet after being punched in the face over and over again.
But still they didnt release the 2D games of Final Fantasy 1-6 on console....
no pc? pass then
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