SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered announced and now available
During the latest Nintendo Direct Square Enix has announced SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered, an enhanced version of SaGa Frontier 2, and is now available.
SaGa Frontier 2 is a role playing game in the SaGa series where you experience the intertwined fates of Gustave, a royal heir caught in a struggle for power, and Wil, a fledgling excavator confronting a hidden world-threatening danger.The game was released in 1999 on the PlayStation in Japan and in 2000 in North America and Europe.
SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered key features include:
- Fully Enhanced HD Visuals — The game’s signature warm watercolor-style graphics and are more defined and vibrant, and original character sprites are upscaled for modern resolutions. New sprites have been prepared for characters who did not have unique sprites in the original game.
- Revamped UI — History Choice, chronology, a revamped screen layout and a multitude of other gameplay systems have been reconstructed to facilitate more intuitive and comfortable gameplay.
- Brand-New Story Content — Under the supervision of SaGa Franchise General Director Akitoshi Kawazu, Benny Matsuyama introduces new story events that provide additional insight into the events of SaGa Frontier 2.
- New Gameplay Features — Added elements like Parameter Inheritance, postgame content and New Game+ make for an enhanced and expanded gameplay experience.
- New Minigame for Western Fans — The excavation minigame, created for the Japan-exclusive PocketStation peripheral for the PlayStation, is playable in the west for the first time as ‘Dig! Dig! Digger’ in SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered.
SaGa Frontier 2 is now available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PC via Steam, iOS and Android. Below you can watch the launch trailer.