# ROMANCING SAGA 2 — user reviews > 77 indexed App Store user reviews of ROMANCING SAGA 2 by SQUARE ENIX, rated 4.20/5 from 69 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/romancing-saga-2/id1083835330/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/romancing-saga-2/id1083835330.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 47 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of ROMANCING SAGA 2? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Deep and challenging gameplay - 🎶 Godly soundtrack - 🗺️ Open world exploration - 🌟 Unique mechanics - 💯 Rewarding experience - 💎 Classic JRPG - 👍 Well-done remake - 💖 Nostalgic feel **Cons** - 🤔 Confusing mechanics - 🕹️ Wonky controls - ❓ Lack of direction - 📉 Steep learning curve - 🐌 Slow battles - 😵 Overly vague - 💸 Expensive for some - 🫙 UI is archaic **Commonly reported bugs** - Game stuck in storyline - Crashes in dungeons (Gemstone Cave, Termite Den) - PS4 controller not working properly - Freezes during Noel fight - Game freezes during Noel fight - Game crashes every few battles - Can't get through castle gate - Thieve's Guild quest not available - Pay NPC disappeared - Sound not working - LP can't rise from sleeping - Sealing skills instead of selling - Accidentally removed all skills - Game freezes in Noel fight - Noel fight freezes game **Most requested features** - Controller support - Korean localization - Selectable language options - Fix controller issues - Add dark mode - Add visible virtual control panel - More languages embedded - Digital copy of game manual ## Newest reviews (13 of 77) ### 3/5 — Can’t turn off music *2023-07-23* Cannot turn of the annoying music and the controls are wonky ### 4/5 — Romancing saga2 *2021-02-04* I want to play this game in Japanese, but the it is not possible to select the language which users want to. Can you fix it to select the language? ### 2/5 — No controller support *2020-07-26, version 1.10* Seriously? This was a console game, it sorely needs controller support. It can’t be that hard to add in, small independent developers do it all the time. Come on Square-Enix! ### 3/5 — 그럭저럭 괜찮은 리마스터판이지만 *2019-11-16* 2점 깎은 이유: 조작감이 나쁘다 아이템의 속성이 감춰져 있어서 불편 ### 3/5 — decent port *2018-08-16* The port alone is good enough but the translation needs some improvement. I really hope SQEX goes back to releasing games with Japanese as a built-in option (ie phone set to JPN -> in-game language is also JPN) ### 2/5 — Boring *2017-09-16* The system is a little confusing because nothing is ever explained to you. What are skill points? How do you get more life points? Skills are learned randomly. Why does a person with 15 def get 1-shot while a person with 13 def takes 1/4 the damage? But the cardinal sin is that the game has a boring and disjointed story. It reminds me of Chinese movies that recount some popular or historical tale, and you're expected to already know what happens so they can jump around and just hit the highlights. Just say no. I bought this while on vacation for something to play while in line or on the bus. I won't even be using it for that. $18 down the drain. ### 4/5 — Fantastic game - aged very well *2017-08-27* Saga was one of my favorite series as a kid so I may be a bit biased but I think this remake is really good. What makes Saga great is the open world and the level of challenge. The battle system is addictive unique in a lot of ways. Save often as you can occasionally get into situations where you can't get out of a dungeon or scenario and may not be capable of beating the boss. Always keep a few different saves going in case you box yourself in. The game may seem rudimentary and from a story perspective it is fairly simple but the mechanics, challenge and replay value are all really good. Don't give up after an hour or two. Play for at least 4-5 hours and I think you will be a fan ! ### 4/5 — Finally! Ported in English! *2017-04-29* This was the first JRPG with non-linear storyline I've played. It also has a very different concept of money management, equipment acquirement, skill learning, and magic system like none other even to this day. If you are OK with a bit of retro graphic, you should try it. A bit of caveat is the survival control is pretty bad, but I am willing to tolerate it for all the unique qualities of the game. ### 5/5 — Jburdo *2017-02-25* Excellent old school game from the classic Squaresoft SNES era. Definitely worth the purchase. Let's hope we see Square-Enix put more of its Japanese exclusive games out there for the English speaking audience! This game was way ahead of its time and is probably the finest of the entire SaGa series. ### 5/5 — Great game. Glad it's available on iOS *2016-12-28* Great game. Glad they move this onto iOS. Hope they bring rs3 to iOS as well. ### 5/5 — Great retro RPG *2016-12-18* This is definitely a game for those that are super into the genre. The menus and user interface can be a bit obtuse, but it's got great gameplay still. Please, Square, bring 1 and 3 to iOS! ### 5/5 — 5star but struggling with movement *2016-12-16* I just started the game it brought a lot of nostalgia of the old days but my problem is the movement is somewhat inaccurate I struggle in dungeons can't keep a straight pattern I think needs to be be re-adjusted with bigger icon ### 5/5 — Wow really great *2016-10-19* Hadn't played this one before, but it has pretty great depth! I'd love to see a Saga Frontier port as well! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Eh *2025-04-19* I’m glad I only paid 5 dollars for this. I’m a longtime Final Fantasy fan, so when I found this game under the Square Enix link in the App Store, I thought I’d give it a try. I had to back up and start over in this game numerous times to get anywhere. Whether or not you can beat the bosses doesn’t always seem to depend on how strong your party is but rather what your progression is in the game. I got stuck so many times in this game, I frequently had to look online for guides. Those weren’t always available, either because they weren’t in English or they were guides for the 3D version of this game, which appears to have been altered more than just in appearance. I read that there was an abdicate feature in an earlier version of this game that isn’t in this one, and it would’ve been helpful. I Made it to the end boss but then couldn’t beat it. I didn’t want to level grind for it, as this game had already brought me a lot of aggravation and boredom. I just stopped playing it and bought something else. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2024-10-16* I’m glad I only paid 5 dollars for this, but I think even that is too much. There’s no feasible way to grind in this game. Whether the area you are in is easy or difficult, it doesn’t matter. Your characters will frequently get killed off anyway. Oh yeah, you can’t revive anyone. You can only replace them with newer, weaker characters. Think you’re going to reset the game and do something different to make your characters stronger? It doesn’t matter! They’ll get killed off anyway. ### 1/5 — Bloody *2023-09-07* Boring and looks like it came out 30 ish years ago ### 1/5 — Needs controller support *2022-08-23* I do love this game But I won’t finish it until backbone or whatever controller support is added I’ll give 5 stars then ### 1/5 — Developer please fix bug *2019-05-07* I’m only writing this to hopefully get their attention to fix this bug; this bug makes my game stuck in a storyline. Basically when I talk to Thieve’s Guild’s boss to ask for secret entrance to the fortress, my character says “Never mind” and that’s where it’s stuck. I did everything accordingly to the walkthrough, but can’t seem to get past that scenario and it seems like I’m not the only one with this problem. I’m not starting over the whole game just to take another chance of not encountering this bug. Sad and unacceptable. ### 1/5 — It's just OK. *2017-08-12, version 1.01* It's not great, it's intentionally vague and difficult / frustrating only by the lack of direction or instruction. The combat is weird, the learning curve is steep, but it's story is mildly interesting. Save yourself some money and watch someone's play through on youtube unless you're a glutton for ga,es designed to be as frustrating and non intuitive as possible. ### 1/5 — not all that hype as it shows *2017-01-01, version 1.01* first they need to fix where lp can rise from sleeping. if they fix this bug on the game i will give it a four star ### 1/5 — This is the worst translation ever *2016-07-20, version 1.01* Square Enix should be ashamed. Most of the game reads as disjointed nonsense. Multiple items are given obviously wrong translations by someone who could not read Japanese and who did not know English. Worse yet, there are many screens where the hooked the wrong memory locations and show nonsense in place of character names. And this translation will probably be the basis for all other foreign language translations. Spanish and French speakers, be prepared for a video game implementation of telephone! This wouldn't be taken seriously as a free, fan made ROM hack, let alone a $17 product from the actual company: a company which had the added advantage of the actual source code, money and years of experience. It's very sad that Square Enix cannot even manage the same quality control ensured by bored 16-year-olds living in their parents' basements. And I say this as a former bored 16-year-old who worked on fan translations of Square's games in the 1990s. ### 1/5 — Save Your Money *2016-06-20* This game is awful. Boring, repetitive, should have languished in the archives and definitely not worth anything like the £13 I paid! Could someone please being out a decent, old school RPG; how about revitalising Landstalker? ### 1/5 — Complete Garbage *2016-06-18, version 1.0.0* This game seems as if it would be a premium rpg with hours of entertainment from looking at the pictures. It is a horrible RPG and while in battle mode , your charcaters miss 4 out of every 5 attempts to attack the enemy. Each battle takes up to 30 minutes because the system is designed to just miss! The game feels bad in hand , the difficulty is too hard, the gui itself is almost not bearable! I feel like I got ripped off big time! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 한글화 *2022-10-03* 한글화 해주세요…. ### 5/5 — PS4 controller *2020-11-25* PS4 controller doesn’t work properly. Can you fix it? ### 5/5 — 한글화 좀 해주세요 *2020-10-30* 로사3와 함께 한글화 좀 해주세요 명작이라 계속 소장하고 있습니다 ### 5/5 — 사가시리즈의 대서막 *2020-07-25* 로맨싱사가1이 리메이크 안되는건 좀 안타깝지만.. 2편 만으로도 행복합니다. ### 5/5 — Please update *2019-08-13* Please update so ready for RS3 release ### 5/5 — 제발 한글화를.. *2018-03-22* 정말 명작이고 국내에 팬들도 많은데.. 한글화가 꼭 됐으면 좋겠습니다.. 기다립니다 ### 5/5 — Awesome!!! *2017-09-05* I will always have some bias towards Romancing Saga games because of the godly soundtrack by Kenji Ito. Having played RS1 and RS3, the controls felt familiar; the enemies no longer rush directly towards and trap the player when they enter a map like in the first game (as often), yet the graphics, battle system, and story feel weak compared to RS3. The graphics look cleaner than the original version, and there are now animated boss sprites. My biggest complaint would be how you control the movement of the main character and overall UI. It's unclear where you should tap when using an item/ sometimes I would press to the side and accidentally consume an item or make a wrong choice. The translations are also... kind of funky. "Seeling skill?" Sealing a skill? What? (Turns out I have to be careful not to tap the skill in the menu twice because that apparently DELETES it?) Lastly, it's also irritating how you still cannot restore LP at the inn like in RS3, and you essentially have to kill off a character's LP to remove them from your party. -- TL;DR -- Amazing music, interesting story (but a rather poor execution of it), ugly controls and UI, challenging gameplay. ### 5/5 — A great RPG finally comes overseas. *2017-08-07* Romancing saga 2 is a great game with so many ways to play it. It's battle system is amazing, the story is simple, yet smart, and the localization is great. I only wish that romancing saga 1 and 3 and maybe even imperial saga would release in America... ### 5/5 — More SaGa *2017-08-03* So grateful to Square for bringing back the games of my childhood so much fun, well worth the purchase. CANNOT WAIT FOR SAGA FRONTIER ### 5/5 — How Great and Random. Awesome JRPG. *2017-02-26* It's really surprising to me that Square Enix decided to bring this as a port to smartphones, but it's really cool to have the opportunity to play a decent English version of the game 20+ years after the Japanese release. I loved the FF Legend games as a kid and it was always disappointing to have to resort to bad emulator roms to play this sequel. This game is HARD. It's difficult to understand what is going on because little is explained, and the setup is so unique and nonlinear. But it's also a rewarding experience to learn the complexity and eventually build strong teams to defeat the seven heroes and expand the empire. A couple notes to help new players understand: -LP are life points. When a character gets knocked out in battle, these are permanently lost. When LP run out, the character is dead forever. A little way into the game you can buy potions from the witch to restore LP, but it's important to just avoid letting your characters get beaten up. Think of this as the flipside of not having to heal HP after battles. -Successive generations can learn all of the offensive and evasive techniques learned by past parties. Just talk to those soldiers in the castle. Don't be afraid to seal techniques to make room for others - you can always get them back. -You should be saving constantly because unlucky, brutal things will happen to your party all the time. Be prepared to reset the game fairly regularly when even "normal" battles go very badly. -Monsters do get stronger as you do (new tiers of monsters appear), but it's still a good idea overall to grind a bit, get money, invest in weapons, armor, learn new techniques, magic, and to sit on the throne to invest in the Empire. -If you want to stand a chance against the final boss, either invest in a mostly-female final party (and pick the female empress at the beginning), or learn the Temptation evasion technique when you fight Rocbouquet. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*