Romancing SaGa 3

Final Fantasy VI, eat your heart out and move over! Romancing SaGa 3 has taken your place in my books!

Plot: Every 300 Centuries, the Shizoku (Death Eclipse) wipes out every newborn life in the world, save for one. Will this child become a saviour or bring doomsday to the land?

Interesting plot, but there is much more to it, since it is not linear as you think, which makes it fun. No Spoilers here though.

The artwork by Mina Hwang (Tomomi Kobayashi in Japan) is quite beautiful and detailed. She is one of my favorite artists and storywritters alongside Keita Amemiya.

The soundtrack is also nicely done. Not quite as atmospheric as Rudra no Hihou's soundtrack, but nice none the less.

Romancing SaGa is a must get (or must download).

The only solid reason I ever played this VG (video game) is because of its great gigantic music! Kenji Ito has done a great job here. He is a Japanese composer who always create music with timpani and fast-constant bass moving. Not only that, he also use a lot of what I called 'strange' chords, which are chords that rarely been used by any movie or VG composer, yet sounds BEAUTIFUL! Some of the slow songs composed by him are irresistably nice and calm to hear. Not to mention the battle music! Always, always big and gigantic. As far as my words keep going, I might be a little bit biased about him, but most of my friends also agree that Kenji Ito has always composed great music with his own unique characteristic: strange chord but BEAUTIFUL!

So, my suggestion will be this: if you like to hear somewhat pleasant, nice, and heroic gigantic 'strange' chords even if you can't read Japanese, it's 100% worth of money to buy this game. Like Chinese-sound music? Kenji Ito composed it. Like really COOL battle music (trust me, you WILL definitely like it) , and not boring at all? Kenji Ito composed it. Like funky music (sometimes)? Kenji Ito composed it. Like beautiful and calm music? Kenji Ito also composed it.

One word: great music!