Jeremy Parish

Game Boy Works #122: Final Fantasy Legend II (Patreon)

Published:

2020-12-02 13:00:00

Imported:

2024-04

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As promised! A pipin' hot Final Fantasy Legend II video. I apologize that the footage you see here is all from the first five or six hours of the game—things on the home health front prevented me from spending as much time recording footage as I would have preferred. So please forgive the slightly limited visuals and enjoy this piece on one of the finest portable 8-bit RPGs ever made. Then enjoy it for yourself when the Switch collection comes out next week.

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Final Fantasy Legend II retrospective: Gift of the MAGI | Game Boy Works #122

The second entry in the Final Fantasy Legend series—or SaGa, if you prefer—amped up the features, narrative, mechanics, and overall design sensibilities of the groundbreaking first game. With new races, an elaborate cosmology, inventive dungeon design, an unconventional death mechanic, and all kinds of poorly explained gameplay systems to grapple with, Final Fantasy Legend II is in some respects a high point of the SaGa series. And with both a SaGa Game Boy compilation and remaster of SaGa Frontier for PlayStation due out in the near future, there's no better time to get acquainted with this sometimes-baffling role-playing series that is well and truly here to stay... whether you like it or not. Video Works is funded via Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/gamespite) — support the show and get access to every episode up to two weeks in advance of its YouTube debut! And be sure to check out the Retronauts podcast (http://www.retronauts.com), where I (and many others!) tackle a much wider array of classic gaming topics each week.