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Final Fantasy Legend 2 for Game Boy
Final Fantasy Legend 2 came out for Game Boy in 1990, two years after the original Final Fantasy Legend. FFL2 improved much from the first. The storyline is much more detailed along with more supporting characters and more dialogue. The worlds are bigger and more creative. The battle system is more organized too. And there is a new "Memo" feature, which lets you access important details that supporting characters told you. In Japan, FFL2 is known as SaGa 2. Sound familiar? Ever heard of SaGa Frontier for the Sony Playstation? SaGa Frontier is SaGa 7. Here's a list of all the SaGa games to make things more clear:

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• SaGa 1 (Game Boy)
• SaGa 2 (Game Boy)
• SaGa 3 (Game Boy)
• Romancing SaGa (SNES) a.k.a. SaGa 4
• Romancing SaGa 2 (SNES) a.k.a. SaGa 5
• Romancing SaGa 3 (SNES) a.k.a. SaGa 6
• SaGa Frontier (Playstation) a.k.a. SaGa 7
• SaGa Frontier 2 (Playstation) a.k.a. SaGa 8
• Unlimited SaGa (Playstation 2) a.k.a. SaGa 9

Note: All but the Romancing SaGa titles were released here in the US.

Final Fantasy Legend 2 Re-release
In 1998, Sunsoft got the license for Final Fantasy Legend 2 and re-released it again for Game Boy. They didn't do anything special to it, besides slapping their logo on the front of the box. All they did was re-distribute it for Squaresoft and got most of the profit from it.

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SaGa 2 for Nintendo DS

This sure was a surprise! Firstly, remember that SaGa 1 (a.k.a. Makai Toushi SaGa/ Final Fantasy Legend) was remade for the Wonderswan Color. Now SaGa 2 (Final Fantasy Legend 2) is getting it's own remake for the Nintendo DS. Just like the Final Fantasy 3 DS remake, SaGa 2 is getting a complete overhaul! A podcost over at Famitsu Weekly revealed the following details:
1) A SaGa 2 remake has been on the planning table for a long while now, even before the DS came out. This leads me to hope that some of the other games in the series, like the second and third Romancing SaGa games, are also in the works.

2) No major changes have been planned for the gameplay. The new SaGa 2 should take about the same time to finish as the old one. That's supposedly 10 hours of game, though I swear I never finished the original that quickly.

3) One real change is that monster encounters are no longer really random, but instead can be seen in advance and possibly avoided, similar to the later games in the series.

4) The monster change system has been revamped so that it is no longer quite as opaque. I'm hoping for something similar to the monster system in SaGa Frontier, but any change that helps make it easier to work with monsters in this game would be welcome.

Anyway, I have some SaGa 2 goodies for you in this website: official art, a teaser scan, screen shots, wallpapers and even an MP3!

Storyline

(You can choose your main character, but for the sake of this prelude I will refer to it as a male human) The game begins with a male human father escaping out the window. The noise awakens his male human son and all that the male human father tells is that he's going away for a while. Years pass by and the male human wants to search for his father, so he rounds up his male human friends and goes off into the world. The male human learns that he must search for Magi if he wants to find his male human father. Once he leaves his hometown, the adventure begins! The male human and his male human friends end up going through caves, temples, enemy bases, ancient Japanese castles, and much more on his journey. He discovers other worlds like a world of giants, a world where beauty is praised and ugliness is banished, a world run by a shogun, a world where everyone is obsessed with dragon racing, a world that only has one huge cave, and much more!

Battle System

When a member of your party has been defeated, they'll only be stunned for the duration of the battle. Once the fight is over, your downed party members will be revived. If your whole party goes down then Odin will give you another chance. Since enemies usually hit your party leader first, you should make sure that your character is equipped with the strongest armor and the best shield. Spells either attack one group of enemies or the whole screen. Weapons and shields can only be used a given amount of times as well as items and spells. Spells a mutant has learned and the weapons/shields/items of a robot can be restored when you sleep at an Inn.

My Opinion

This is my favorite out of the three FF Legend games! Its so fun!! Really! And the music is pretty good too. It has a corny yet interesting storyline. If you love classic RPGs then this game is for you. The battles are mostly text-based and it has 8-bit, 4 color action. Overall, FFL2 is your typical ghetto-fabulous RPG. The only original thing about it is the advantages and disadvantages of the types of characters you can choose for your battle party. Unlike the original FF Legend, FFL2 actually has some characters join your battle party for a while. Final Fantasy Legend 3 continues with this feature. Heh, have you been staring at my animated GIF of flirting Isis? Isn't flirting Isis so awesome?! Isis, you're such slutty whore! Stop flirting with the people browsing this page! Don't make me smack you spitless!



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