Romancing SaGa 3 CIB

Description

Romancing SaGa 3^[a] is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Famicom. The sixth entry in the SaGa series, it was also the last developed for the platform. Originally released on the Super Famicom system in Japan on November 11, 1995, the game was released on the Virtual Console in Japan for Wii on September 21, 2010 and Wii U on February 26, 2014.

In the game’s backstory, an event called the Rise of Morastrum occurs once every three centuries; a solar eclipse occurs, with every newborn of that year except one destined to die; this survivor is called the Child of Destiny and receives great power. 600 years prior, the Child of Destiny became an evil ruler called the Archfiend, while 300 years prior the Child of Destiny was a good hero called the Matriarch who toppled the Archfiend. Prior to the game’s opening, the Rise of Morastrum occurs again, and people begin seeking the Child of Destiny to discover their eventual fate.^[4][5] The eight main characters, all known to each other, set out on their own quests and end up involved in the hunt for the Child of Destiny.^[6] They are Julian Nohl, a reckless and just swordsman; the tomboyish Ellen Carson; the shy Sarah Carson; Thomas Bent, friend to Julian, Ellen and Sarah; Monika Ausbach, sister to the Marquis of Loanne; Monika’s brother Mikhail Ausbach von Loanne; Katarina Lauran, Monika’s attendant; and Khalid, a wandering mercenary. They all cross paths in the village of Sinon.^[5]

During their journey, the chosen protagonist learns that the Rise of Morastrum is tied to a realm called the Abyss and its ruling Four Sinistrals, which creates the heralding eclipse to manifest their power through the Child of Destiny. The Matriarch’s birth and rise to heroism prompted the Sinistrals’ fall, but with the latest Rise of Morastrum the Abyss Gates linking their realm to the world open again. It is also revealed that this time, two Children of Destiny have been born; Sarah and one referred to as the “Young Boy”. The chosen protagonist and their party close the Abyss Gates and defeat the Sinistral clones sent through to wreak havoc in the world. Sarah tries to sacrifice herself to the Abyss to maintain peace until the next Rise of Morastrum, but the party and the Young Boy follow through a surviving Abyss Gate. In the Abyss, Sarah and the Young Boy combine their powers, awakening Oblivion, a being embodying the Abyss’s power. Oblivion’s death decimates reality, but the benevolence of Sarah and the Young Boy use Oblivion’s energy to restore and remake the world, now free of the Rise of Morastrum.