SaGa Frontier Remastered announced for PS4 / Switch / PC / mobile, coming summer 2021, Fuse added as a playable character

[Aether]

So there is a chance that we will get Frontier 2 and / or Unlimited?
Those 2 Game Covers always intrigued me. This also looks fine, will keep an eye on it.

And i cant belive that people think Xenogears would sell less than the saga remasters.
Simply because of the connection to Xenoblade.

Well...or do a whole remake and FINISH the game. It would really be a huge game. But they could promote it as that, a era spanning adventure. Ok, probably not.
Maybe if nintendo buys the ip rights from square... but they probably want more than its worth for a single release (since after Xenoblade sequels to xenogears would not make sense)

 

[Mobius 1]

I had the worst experience with an RPG playing this back then. Seeing reactions here makes me now wonder what I missed about it. It was obtuse, disjointed and with the worst random encounter rate I've ever seen.

 

[Flon]

Wait what. Unexpected.

 

[night814]

Do you have a press release by Square Enix confirming that or are you saying that because you don't want to set yourself up for disappointment?

And Xeno connections aside, remastering a Xenosaga trilogy would be far more of a financial risk than a remaster/remake of Xenogears would be. Xenosaga is three games with varying art styles and gameplay mechanics, Xenogears is a single game that features 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds. Octopath Traveler and this game have proven that Square Enix are willing to dabble back into a game like Xenogears again.

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I did say seemingly, they use the characters in mobile games and they make high quality toys and other collectors merch like that. Nothing on the game front at all though and anyone related to the games who could push for remake is working at Monolith now under Nintendo. Who at Square like a Nomura is going to push for a full remake of Xenogears? At some point once you can't buy PS1 classics on PS3/PSP/Vita anymore there won't be any way to even get the original game.

Fei, Elly, Bart, Citan, and Maria are all 5* base units. Emeralda and Billy are 4* base units, and ChuChu and Rico are 3* bases.

Weltall-ID, Deus and G-Elements were also boss fights. They put a lot of love into it:

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Part of me does wish I played through it at the time but I was so burnt out on BE, I tried to reinstall it months after dropping it and it made me physically ill lol.

 

[Tfritz]

I had the worst experience with an RPG playing this back then. Seeing reactions here makes me now wonder what I missed about it. It was obtuse, disjointed and with the worst random encounter rate I've ever seen.

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perhaps you were playing a different game because saga frontier uses symbol encounters instead of randoms

 

[captmcblack]

Day zero purchase at full price, baby.

Can we also somehow get Legend of Mana remastered like this?

 

[Wilsongt]

Scarlet Grace must have done really good.

 

[Dice]

Day zero purchase at full price, baby.

Can we also somehow get Legend of Mana remastered like this?

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ME TO BOTH THESE PARTS:

 

[MilkBeard]

for the love of all that is Kawazu plz let these remasters run at 60 fps and not 30 like the previous remasters

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this game should especially be at 60fps during battle for all that crazy sprite and visual effects. At least I hope they do it

 

[TaleSpun]

I wonder what dirt the SaGa producer has on SE's excecutives.

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Pretty sure the executives are just better now. Matsuda is actually interested in putting out ganes more than once every four years, unlike Wada LOL

 

[MilkBeard]

Are you ready for this shit in HD fam

Edit: boss/enemy and skill spoilers here, but it's so chaotic you won't know wtf is going on. They were using some cheat engine to get the best combos also, but it's crazy this game can throw all that together at once

 

[Laxoon]

WHAT ON EARTH
BEST NEWS TO WAKE UP TO WTFFF

 

[King Kingo]

the talent and range and use of color and patterns on display... no one is doing it like her!

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It's a crime that she's exclusive to the SaGa games, Square Enix, give her different projects to show off her artistic talents.

I did say seemingly, they use the characters in mobile games and they make high quality toys and other collectors merch like that. Nothing on the game front at all though and anyone related to the games who could push for remake is working at Monolith now under Nintendo. Who at Square like a Nomura is going to push for a full remake of Xenogears? At some point once you can't buy PS1 classics on PS3/PSP/Vita anymore there won't be any way to even get the original game.

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To clarify, I'm not saying that a Xenogears remaster/remake will happen, I'm just confident that the likeliness of it happening has increased thanks to this and the recent merchandise push. But to answer your question, Yasuhisa Izumisawa, the Art director for World of Final Fantasy worked on Xenogears, a game which just so happens to have the cameo from the gear itself.

Yasuhisa Izumisawa (Person) - Giant Bomb

A character designer at Square-Enix.

www.giantbomb.com

There's somebody who's pushing for Xenogears merchandise, maybe that's testing the waters to see if reviving Xenogears is financially viable?

 

[Kientin]

Are you ready for this shit in HD fam

Edit: some boss/enemy and skill spoilers here, but it's so chaotic you won't know wtf is going on

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Was literally just watching this after I saw the announcement. I can't waaaaait.

This game has so many flaws, but it's so GOOD!

 

[EntelechyFuff]

Still good, after all these years.

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SF deserves major props for associating big battle themes with truly tough fights.

This is maybe the only JRPG I know of where I don't have to purposely sandbag a fight to enjoy a rare boss theme: even going all in will still result in a lengthy fight AND I'll probably lose and have to it again anyway.

 

[leder]

Just spent good money on the PS1 game, but if they're adding the missing path I guess my playthrough will wait! Pretty awesome news.

 

[Kientin]

Don't mind me. Just vibing to one of the best town themes:

 

[Kalor]

So there is a chance that we will get Frontier 2 and / or Unlimited?
Those 2 Game Covers always intrigued me. This also looks fine, will keep an eye on it.

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Frontier 2 will likely be the next remaster after this. Unlimited is probably further down the road if it ever happens. Theres some other games in the series that'd probably be higher priority.

 

[Skulldead]

I had the worst experience with an RPG playing this back then. Seeing reactions here makes me now wonder what I missed about it. It was obtuse, disjointed and with the worst random encounter rate I've ever seen.

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still obtuse and disjointed, but it got a lot of charm i think.

 

[mnk]

I'm vaguely interested, but with sooo many other games coming out next year I'm more certain of, it seems unlikely I'll ever get around to this one. It does look rather charming, and it's nice that fans of the series are getting a lot of focus recently.

 

[Rotobit]

I have to admire whoever at Square Enix has the hustle to give SaGa the best remasters at the company outside of Kingdom Hearts

like it's hilarious SaGa Frontier is getting cut content added back in, in English as well no less, but Final Fantasy VIII and IX don't get proper analog support and VII barely gets a touched up localization. That's not even mentioning those sprites...

Definitely excited to try out more of the SaGa franchise seriously starting with the Collection next month. Should I finally play and finish FFII first? I know they're basically spiritual successors to that game's mechanics.

 

[Deleted member 279]

Talking about xenogears, emulators make that games beauty really show. Fixed wobblyness of the PS1 rendering + uprez/AA + filters is the closest we have to a remaster.

That game would make for an incredible AAA remake. The battle system is so fun, Xenogears and Legend of Legaia were similar and I can see that type of battle system working well today

 

[Kurekure Takora]

Edit: Western trailer already up.

 

[Tatsu91]

It's really weird how SaGa has been better treated then the classic FF games lol

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The director originally never intended for them to be ported or remastered and only would only do remakes i guess he wants people to experience the definitive version of his games. And since he is the original creator he treats them with more delicacy than the others as if im correct the ff remaster team was not the og team.

 

[Ra]

for the love of all that is Kawazu plz let these remasters run at 60 fps and not 30 like the previous remasters

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I'm going to need 240fps support tbh.

 

[DimitriLH]

I never thought this would be possible, I am actually crying tears of joy. Thank you so much to everyone that made this happen.

For those not in the know on what SaGa Frontier or what the series even is, I shall point you to this wonderfully made thread that gives a amazing explanation by our very own Nairume : https://www.resetera.com/threads/getting-into-the-saga-series.152872/

Sorry if im being overdramatic but this game means so much to me, I remember it so fondly from my childhood days.

Sorry if a thread is up already, I searched and none popped up.

 

[kuroneko0509]

SaGa Frontier Remastered announced for PS4 / Switch / PC / mobile, coming summer 2021, Fuse added as a playable character

translated by deepl https://www.famitsu.com/news/202011/28210302.html On the web program "2nd Anniversary Festival Official Live Broadcast" of "Romancing Saga Re-Universe" distributed today, Saturday, November 28, 2020, a surprise announcement was made that "Saga Frontier" will be remastered...

www.resetera.com

 

[Adrifi]

Bruh moment

 

[DimitriLH]

Ah there was a thread! Thank you! So happy right now!

 

[TheMoon]

Sorry if a thread is up already, I searched and none popped up.

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did you really? the other thread even has the exact same title as yours ... :)

 

[DimitriLH]

Dont know how that thread did not pop up in search, how do I close the thread? LoL

 

[Dreamboum]

To think SaGa is the series receiving the good treatment. Maybe that's what it means to have people who deeply care about the original material

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[Harpoon]

This announcement also has me wondering more about what's going with Live A Live after those recent trademarks, and if it'll be a remaster like SaGa recently or a full-fledged remake like Trials of Mana. And also when the heck they're going to announce it.

 

[laser]

OMG, my favorite PS1 rpg. This is amazing.

 

[CloudCircus]

Holy shit! This is the best gaming news ever. I just want to cry tears of happiness. This made my day

 

[Zen Hero]

anyway stan tomomi kobayashi

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YES

 

[Yuntu]

They employed the JRPG remake masters ArtePiazza for Romancing SaGa 2 and 3 remakes. So, I wouldn't call them "low budget".

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Thats exactly why I put the part in () there. Low budget doesn't mean "bad". It just means it isnt a big money sink to SE that it should raise questions about what kinda dirt he has on the execs :p

 

[laser]

I hope they'll redo Lute's story though, cause there was nothing there in the original.

 

[MilkBeard]

The uprez looks good in terms of the backgrounds. I mean the backgrounds literally look like the older ones, just higher resolution (at least according to my memory). Wonder if they did it by hand or used some kind of machine learning technique we've heard about.

The sprites, you can tell they've modified them a bit (someone said they've made minor changes). But for example, that massive turtle looks pretty much exactly as you would think, just with great detail. It's pretty impressive. And of course the battle animations are redone. They definitely had a bigger budget for this than for the previous remasters, it seems.

What is the most important is the battle backgrounds. Even back then, some of those often looked like pixelated vomit. Battling will be much easier on the eyes now, and especially with higer res sprites.

 

[DimitriLH]

The SaGa push lately has been so nice, I never thought I'd see this happen.

 

[Ra]

To think SaGa is the series receiving the good treatment. Maybe that's what it means to have people who deeply care about the original material

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Games shown, respectively?

 

[Nax]

Interesting take on those remastered graphics. Kinda dig it, though. Also really appreciate the speed up mechanic in these old JRPGs.

Makes me hope that we will start seeing other PS1 JRPGs make a comeback.

 

[Toth]

Wow, just saw the English trailer! Maybe this time Blue will have an actual ending lol

 

[Dreamboum]

Games shown, respectively?

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Romancing SaGa 3 - Final Fantasy 6
Romancing SaGa 2 - Final Fantasy 5

 

[Hailinel]

So there is a chance that we will get Frontier 2 and / or Unlimited?
Those 2 Game Covers always intrigued me. This also looks fine, will keep an eye on it.

And i cant belive that people think Xenogears would sell less than the saga remasters.
Simply because of the connection to Xenoblade.

Well...or do a whole remake and FINISH the game. It would really be a huge game. But they could promote it as that, a era spanning adventure. Ok, probably not.
Maybe if nintendo buys the ip rights from square... but they probably want more than its worth for a single release (since after Xenoblade sequels to xenogears would not make sense)

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No one at Square Enix now was creatively involved in Xenogears. There's no one internally that likely has enough drive or interest to push for a remaster or remake. As others have noted, all of these SaGa remasters and rereleases are happening because Akitoshi Kawazu is one of the longest-tenured Square Enix employees still active with the company and he has the internal clout to make these projects happen.

Nintendo could conceivably discuss a remake with Square Enix, but that would rest entirely on whether Tetsuya Takahashi would want Monolith Soft to remake it in the first place.

 

[Dreamboum]

Asellus

 

[Spine Crawler]

Ironically, Square is making better use of Xenogears (FFBE, etc) than Namco is making of Xenosaga. But it's still not enough to make it a viable remake candidate.

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i can think of many more kosmos cameos in comparison to anything xenogears related though. the later have been popping up in rather recently after the series was basically dead for a decade.

kosmos was in xenoblade 2, project x zone, namco x capcom, soul calibur, tales of, super robot taisen.

No one at Square Enix now was creatively involved in Xenogears. There's no one internally that likely has enough drive or interest to push for a remaster or remake. As others have noted, all of these SaGa remasters and rereleases are happening because Akitoshi Kawazu is one of the longest-tenured Square Enix employees still active with the company and he has the internal clout to make these projects happen.

Nintendo could conceivably discuss a remake with Square Enix, but that would rest entirely on whether Tetsuya Takahashi would want Monolith Soft to remake it in the first place.

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yeah i have a feeling that xenosaga will come first if anything pre blade gets a remake.

an openworld remake of xenogears with the xenoblade x engine would be incredible though.

i mean damn... game looks still good.

Xenoblade Chronicles X - Skell Fun - Battles/Flight/Vehicle/Exploring

Messing about in a flying skell.Xenoblade Chronicles X Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoBdFj1THOCzxjerpgHJCX7Fh8mCe5i2D

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[King Kingo]

No one at Square Enix now was creatively involved in Xenogears.

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That's not true.

Yasuhisa Izumisawa (Person) - Giant Bomb

A character designer at Square-Enix.

www.giantbomb.com

Nintendo could conceivably discuss a remake with Square Enix, but that would rest entirely on whether Tetsuya Takahashi would want Monolith Soft to remake it in the first place.

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This isn't a Xenosaga situation, Xenogears came before Monolith Soft so Square Enix has no legal or PR obligation to get Nintendo or Monolith Soft's inolvement for a hypothetical remaster/remake.

 

[Hailinel]

That's not true.

Yasuhisa Izumisawa (Person) - Giant Bomb

A character designer at Square-Enix.

www.giantbomb.com

This isn't a Xenosaga situation, Xenogears came before Monolith Soft so Square Enix has no legal or PR obligation to get Nintendo or Monolith Soft's inolvement for a hypothetical remaster/remake.

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No, Square Enix doesn't. But their interest in actually pursuing a project like that is far more unlikely without a push from the game's original producers.

 

[King Kingo]

No, Square Enix doesn't. But their interest in actually pursuing a project like that is far more unlikely without a push from the game's original producers.

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True, but personally, I'm optimistic that Xenogears will eventually come back only because of the recent merchandise push. Why would Square Enix sell affiliated goods to what is arguably an inaccessible game?