Current Events > Romancing SaGa 2 is pretty amazing

(+) Yeah! (+)

have to wonder how it would be received in the west if it came out back in the SNES days

I'm gonna pick it up later for Xbox One. Shocked they released it for Xbox One, tbh.
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I bought it but haven't played it yet. I like JRPGs before the action combat took over. So will take what I can get.
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Hmm, tempted to buy the steam port, but its probably android garbage
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I heard the steam port is awful, but I plan to acquire the SNES version and play that one.

This is one of those rpgs that I missed that I think I would really like...
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DuranOfForcena posted...

i have the Steam port wishlisted for now. i haven't heard anything negative about it. what are people saying is awful about it?

It's a mobile port that is extremely shoddily ported to windows....

A no effort mobile port basically
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From what I hear, the Steam port is a barebones port of the Android/iOS version with no display options so you have to play it either windowed or use external programs, but plays fine. Vita has some slight load times and the nonstandard resolution of the screen means the character sprites get warped a little bit, but is otherwise entirely playable. The Switch version has input lag. PS4 and Xbox One I haven't heard of any problems.

Sadly, it is another Squeenix hatchet job of a port, straight up from the android release with little to no improvements, but I imagine this one wont get away with reaching a "mostly positive" rating like FFV/VI.
The internal resolution is set by default in the likes of the vita screen and there are no options to change it in the menu, you can only have a small window or stretched fullscreen after pressing Alt+Enter*, controller is limited to Ximput or Steam Controller, so you might have problems depending on your setup. Big Picture is your friend here, try it if you controller refuses to work.
Graphics wise the improvements are not stellar: The UI smells of mobile, some of the backgrounds look like they came from an RPG Maker game and the new animation in some of the bosses is jarring, but at least they kept the sprites, those burned by the steam ports of FFV/VI will find some solace here.
The translation itself is pretty dry and awkward in places, it gets the job done, but it seems they didnt revise it from the smartphone version, which is a pity.
Some users report crashes, so far I have not experienced any.
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