Romancing SaGa Translation Complete

I'm not exactly sure why this news is news, I've had a translated copy of the first Romancing SaGa for a while now, but it's
reasonably big news all the same since this nearly impenetrable RPG now makes a little bit of sense!

I'm kinda joking, but seriously, this game is hard enough to follow as an RPG without the language barrier. It's still worth the effort though, and I'll tell you why.

Romancing SaGa is Squaresoft's other long-running RPG series built almost specifically to be evil twin/yang of the Final Fantasy series. If Final Fantasy is the rock that keeps Square afloat, then Romancing SaGa is the lab where they do all the experiments. This game is intentionally built to be largely aimless, made up more of intersecting missions and DIY character design than anything remotely resembling the eastern roleplaying template. A Western RPG that is much bigger in Japan than here? Who'd have thought!?

I won't go into the whole damn game, but needless to say those, like myself, who just couldn't get enough of the spirit of the early 90s Square Super Famicom RPG goodness is finding a major missing link here. All the sprites damn well look like Final Fantasy V characters, the music instruments sound like Final Fantasy V and despite its completely different gameplay style, it definitely feels like a classic.

Get the patch here.