Square Enix Teasing Development of New Saga and Mana games!

For smartphones that is.

Takehiro Ando is a Square Enix mobile developer who has his own Famitsu feature blog, where he talks to various creators from his company about upcoming smartphone titles. During an interview with Brave Frontier producer Eiji Takahashi, Ando had a bit to share about his company’s plans for 2014 and beyond.

“There’s much more for us here at the 10th business division,” Ando exclaimed, when Takahashi talked about how 2014 will see a lot going on. “It has been decided that the second mobile division [the division Ando is the producer in] will be helping out with [the SaGa and Mana series].”

“We will be doing our best to stay true to all your memories from the Super Famicom and PlayStation era, for those of you who are saying ‘I want to play Romancing SaGa 4’ or ‘I want to play Seiken Densetsu 5!’ but that’s all I can say for now.”

(Note that “Seiken Densetsu” is the name of the Mana series in Japan.)

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Now nowhere is it explicitly stated what platforms these games will appear on. So maybe SE is pulling resources to focus on console/handheld centric JRPGs or maybe they're simply chasing that pot of gold from smartphone users.

It's still Square Enix, so don't get hopes up until they concretely prove to us their dedication to their golden age fans.

not getting my hopes up.

Ah I remember the days when SE would announce something I use to get excited, now it's like oh w/e.

Yep. They gave me 3 awesome generations of games and then an unforgivably terrible one.

Guilty until proven innocent, I have zero faith as of now.

the mana games after seiken 3 were kind of shitty so don't care, and the saga games were always shit so not interested.

phone games.... -__-

Seiken Densetsu 3 was my favorite one. That game on 3 players was heavenly