SaGa: Scarlet Grace, the game that was originally for the PS Vita back in 2016, will have new features that will be coming for the PS4, Switch, PC and Smartphone version. The new features were not in the original release and it is an upgrade to provide a better experience for players in the new version. Since it’s announcement back in March 2018, Square Enix has released a new trailer and a couple of screenshots to tease us with.
This news was thanks to Weekly Famitsue which has released some new information on the upcoming features that we’ll be receiving. Below’s the overview of the features that will be added in:
Survey
A survey intended for players of the original game that you can take before starting the game. By checking off the protagonists whose stories you have already cleared in the original game, events that require those stories to be cleared will occur in your playthrough.
Investigation Hut
A place where you can work together with a woman who gathers up the rare items of the world.
Elements Carried Over in Additional Playthroughs
- Carried over automatically
- Information about the protagonists whose stories you have cleared
- The amount of times you have cleared the game
- Tips
- Enemy names
- Names of the techniques and arts you have learned
- Carried over from the second playthrough
- Techniques and arts you have acquired, and rank
- Roles you have acquired
- Battle formations
- Graces
- Industrial development progress
- Carried over after clearing the stories of the four protagonists
- Materials
- Equipment
- Blacksmith rank
Town Facilities
- Trade-In Shop
- Agency
- Plaza: Poet / Play
Cast
- Mondo (voiced by Masafumi Kimura)
- Maximias (voiced by Tsuyoshi Aoki)
- Antonius (voiced by Shuuhei Sakaguchi)
- Elised (voiced by Shizuka Ito)
- Irene (voiced by Urara Takano)
- Eidil (voiced by Satoshi Hino)
- Griffin (voiced by Hironori Kondou)
- Lawson (voiced by Naomi Kusumi)
The coming SaGa: Scarlet Grace – Hiiro no Yabou will be coming to multiple platforms including the PlayStation 4, Switch, PC and Smartphones (iOS/ Android) in Japan on 2nd of August 2018. The English version is expected to come later either by the year end of 2018 or in the first quarter of 2019.
For more info, you can check out their official site here!