The Final Fantasy Legend (GB)

The Final Fantasy Legend

Platform: Game Boy Year: 1989 Developer: Square Co., Ltd. Buy: Amazon

The Final Fantasy Legend (魔界塔士Sa・Ga, Makai Toushi SaGa translated as Warrior in the Tower of the Spirit World) is an RPG released on the Game Boy by Squaresoft in 1989. It features a turn-based battle system reminiscent of the Final Fantasy series, which makes sense as to why it is marketed as a Final Fantasy game for its American and European releases. The games also features a party system much like that of Dragon Warrior 3 where characters besides the main character can be recruited at free will within the game. There are three different classes that can be chosen from: humans, mutants and monsters, and class cannot be changed.

Screenshots

The title screen.

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Music

Keeping up with similarities to the Final Fantasy series, the game is scored by Nobuo Uematsu, who initially had trouble with composing on the Game Boy because of the different sound hardware from the Famicom. While the soundtrack doesn't compare much to his other work, mainly because of the smaller size of it and console limitations, it still is really good. In fact, quite a bit of it is reused in later SaGa games, most noteably Wipe Your Tears Away, which appears in five later games.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen	Download
01	Prolouge	Nobuo Uematsu	2:05		Download
02	Main Theme	Nobuo Uematsu	1:37		Download
03	Town Theme	Nobuo Uematsu	1:44		Download
04	Battle	Nobuo Uematsu	1:21		Download
05	Eat the Meat	Nobuo Uematsu	0:39		Download
06	Demon Cave	Nobuo Uematsu	1:46		Download
07	Hurry Up!	Nobuo Uematsu	1:29		Download
08	Fierce Battle	Nobuo Uematsu	1:25		Download
09	Requiem	Nobuo Uematsu	0:59		Download
10	Forbidden Tower	Nobuo Uematsu	1:16		Download
11	Wipe Your Tears Away	Nobuo Uematsu	2:22		Download
12	Knights of the Demon World Tower	Nobuo Uematsu	1:14		Download
13	The Highest Floor	Nobuo Uematsu	0:54		Download
14	Furious Battle	Nobuo Uematsu	1:46		Download
15	Epilouge	Nobuo Uematsu	2:26		Download
16	Fanfare	Nobuo Uematsu	0:03		Download
17	Sing	Nobuo Uematsu	0:03		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Scott Worley
• Recorder: banshiryuu
• Game Credits:
  • Sound Director: Nobuo Uematsu
  • Sound Program: Keitarou Adachi
  • Sound Effects: Nobuo Uematsu
  • Sound Effects: Takashi Tokita
  • Sound Effects: Masanori Hoshino
  • Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

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Game Rip

This rip is missing songs.

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Ripping Game Boy music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.

Releases

Japan Title: 魔界塔士Sa・Ga (Warrior In the Tower of the Spirit World ~ Sa·Ga) Platform: Game Boy Released: 1989-12-15 Publisher: Square Co., Ltd.     USA Title: The Final Fantasy Legend Platform: Game Boy Released: 1990-09-?? Publisher: Square Soft, Inc.     USA Title: The Final Fantasy Legend Platform: Game Boy Released: 1998-07-?? Publisher: Sunsoft

Links

• mobygames.com/game/final-fantasy-legend - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/gameboy/563273-the-final-fantasy-legend - GameFAQs.
• wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Fantasy_Legend - Wikipedia.