Final Fantasy Legend

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At the center of the world stands a tower, and legend says paradise waits at its summit. Final Fantasy Legend sends four adventurers up that tower and through the strange worlds connected to it, and the climb ends in a confrontation so audacious that players still trade stories about it, chainsaw and all. This is where Square's SaGa series began: released in Japan in 1989 as Makai Toushi SaGa, renamed for North America to borrow the Final Fantasy name, and remembered as Square's first million-selling game.

Director Akitoshi Kawazu built it around ideas that still feel unconventional. You choose your party from humans, mutants and monsters, and each grows by its own rules. Humans get stronger by drinking stat-boosting items bought in shops. Mutants gain and lose abilities unpredictably after battle. Monsters transform into entirely new creatures by eating the meat of the enemies they defeat, which turns every fight into a gamble on what your party might become. Weapons wear out after a set number of uses, so every sword and spellbook is a resource to manage rather than gear you equip and forget.

The tower is a hub linking a run of very different worlds, each with its own towns, dungeons and crisis to resolve, all leading toward the fiend Ashura and whatever waits above him. Nobuo Uematsu, already the musical voice of Final Fantasy, composed the soundtrack, and battery backup let you carry a full-sized Square RPG in your pocket when the Game Boy was barely eight months old in Japan. The pacing is brisk, the difficulty is real, and the sense of climbing ever higher into the unknown gives the whole adventure a clear, addictive spine.

Its influence runs deep. Free-form character growth and a willingness to break RPG conventions became SaGa's calling card through Romancing SaGa and beyond, and the game was later remade for the WonderSwan Color in Japan and revived in the Collection of SaGa: Final Fantasy Legend. The original cartridge is the purest form of that idea, rough edges and all: an RPG that trusted players with something different at the very start of the handheld era.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1989
Publisher
SUNSOFT
Developer
Square
Players
Single player
About the game

The long-running FINAL FANTASY series hits the Game Boy with FINAL FANTASY LEGEND. Create your party by choosing four warriors from eight different character classes including humans, mutants, and monsters. Humans specialize in hand-to-hand combat and have access to most weapons, mutants wield magic like no other, and monsters can evolve themselves by feasting on the meat of fallen opponents to become new monsters! Venture your way through four different lands each with a unique fantasy theme to stop the wicked Ashura Devils from destroying the world. A beautiful fantasy soundtrack adds atmosphere to the experience and puts you in the right mood. This single-player RPG features battery backup to save your progress, and is compatible with both Game Boy and Game Boy Color. RPG fans on the go should check out FINAL FANTASY LEGEND.

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