Metal Saga

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Most RPGs hand you a destiny. Metal Saga hands you a wanted poster and a tank, then lets you decide how much of the wasteland you care to see. Set in a world left behind after Noah, a supercomputer built to head off ecological disaster, decided the answer was to wipe out humanity, it casts you as a young bounty hunter, son of a famous hunter, setting out across a ruined frontier where the real money is in tracking down monstrous outlaws.

Tanks are the heart of the game. Your party, which can include a soldier, a mechanic and a cyborg dog, fights on foot or from inside its vehicles in turn-based battles, and those machines take real punishment; when one is knocked out of action, its crew climbs out and keeps fighting on foot. Outside battle you can tow a spare tank to haul parts or serve as a backup, money goes into modifying every part of your vehicles, and parts scattered across the world can be assembled into new models. The Wanted monsters are the stars, hulking bounty targets standing between you and the next big payday.

What makes Metal Saga unusual is how little it insists on its main story. Events unfold according to the jobs you choose to take, branching toward different endings, and the game will happily let you walk away from adventure altogether: one ending can be reached just minutes after you set out. The tone is a lighter, sillier take on the post-apocalypse than its rusted setting suggests.

Reviews at the time were mixed, with critics pointing to dated graphics and a thin plot, so this is a game to approach for its tank-building, its bounty hunts and its strange sense of freedom rather than a sweeping story. Its real distinction is historical: Metal Saga was the first time the long-running Japanese Metal Max series, which began on the Famicom in 1991, was released in North America, and for RPG collectors who prize the oddballs alongside the blockbusters, it is a fascinating outlier on the PlayStation 2 shelf.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2005
Publisher
Atlus
Developer
Crea-Tech
About the game

A follow-up to the Metal Max games, Metal Saga is set in the same post-apocalyptic world as its predecessors - a world populated by bounty hunters, rangers, bandits, and mutant monsters. You take the role of a bounty hunter who has to travel the world, looking for "wanted" people. Accompanied by a soldier, a mechanic, and a cyborg dog, the hero must survive a journey west that will ultimately take him to remote places and lead him to battles against evil. Metal Saga has a less linear story line that one would normally expect from a Japanese RPG - a story line that develops according to the missions you decide to take, which in their turn lead to new events and finally to different endings. The combat system features traditional party management and turn-based battles, with the addition of Metal Max's trademark tank combat. When you acquire tanks for your characters, you can use them in battles. Tanks get damaged and broken, but you will be able to customize them by finding parts scattered across the world and assembling them to build new models.

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