Featuring music from iconic series composer Kenji Ito and artwork from acclaimed illustrator Satoshi Kuramochi, SaGa Emerald Beyond brings together the core combat and free-form scenario elements of the beloved RPG franchise to deliver the ultimate SaGa experience to fans and newcomers alike. 

SaGa Emerald Beyond is an all-new fully standalone RPG that brings together the very best elements of the beloved SaGa franchise. This latest entry is set across 17 unique worlds, each with their own aesthetic and culture and where you can meet a diverse cast of races including humans, mechs, and vampires.

You have a choice of five protagonists (well, technically six because one of the choices is a duo) who, guided by mysterious emerald waves, embark on their journeys over these strikingly beautiful worlds – all very different from the ones they live in.

You’ll visit the interconnected 17 worlds via the Beyond, a hub of the emerald waves, either through your own will or by chance. As for what that story you’ll experience… it’s in your hands.

With the freeform scenario system, the story branches in many different ways depending on your choices and actions. Every time you visit a world, the story will evolve, allowing protagonist and player alike to discover new possibilities.

As the story unfolds, it becomes a tale all your own, not only affecting the path you walk but also the multiple potential endings that await each protagonist.

Of course, regardless of your decisions, sooner or later you’ll have to fight. SaGa Emerald Beyond features a turn-based combat system that’s easy to understand yet offers plenty of depth. You’ll have to make smart use of your party’s weapons and skills to overcome the many monsters and bosses that stand in your way, in what may be the best battles in the SaGa franchise yet!

In short, it takes SaGa into the new generation… and is a perfect entry point for RPG fans yet to experience the franchise.

SaGa fans and newcomers alike get a deeper look at two of SaGa Emerald Beyond’s key playable characters, Bonnie Blair and Formina Franklyn, in a brand new trailer. 

Ex-marine Bonnie and renowned sharpshooter Formina are two police recruits who have been tasked with investigating an assassination attempt on the president of Capitol City. Together, the pair set off on a journey through other worlds to uncover the hidden truth behind the incident. 

The trailer also showcased new details surrounding SaGa Emerald Beyond’s combat. Players can experiment with new techniques including Martial Arts, two-handed weapons, Conditional Techs and much more.

A Wide Variety of Races: Ephemerals

As ephemerals fight in more and more battles, they change from juvenile to young to mature, and finally to elder. Their stats increase as they grow older, but their maximum LP decreases. When an ephemeral runs out of LP, they are reborn again, passing down techs and spells to the next generation. This means that the more generations pass, the more techs and spells can be inherited. Some ephemerals can glimmer new techs like humans, while others can learn techs from fallen foes, like monsters.

Weapon type:Two-Handed Guns

Two-handed guns are divided into machine guns, flamethrowers, zappers, boomers and catalyzers. All of these gun types can invoke general two-handed gun techs, but each type has its own associated techs as well.

Two-handed guns feature a lot of antiair-property techs that are effective against airborne enemies. However, players should note that since a lot of two-handed gun techs raise enmity as well, the wielder is more likely to be attacked by enemies.

Flamethrowers, zappers and catalyzers also have their own associated techs that inflict elemental damage and status ailments, and boomers feature a lot of techs that delay the user's order of action in the Timeline.

Martial Arts

Martial arts can be used when no weapons are equipped. Punch techs make it easier to evade attacks that come your way after you have taken an action, and kick techs tend to appear more quickly in the Action Order. Tackles, on the other hand, delay the user's order of action in the Timeline. There are also lots of techs that delay the enemy's actions in the Timeline. Overall, this means that Martial arts techs can be used to handle a wide variety of different situations.

Conditional Techs

Techs that are used in response to enemy or ally abilities or spells are called conditional techs. There are five different types of conditional tech: Interrupts, Counterattacks, Protects, Chains, and Pursuits.

Conditional techs readied by enemies appear in the timeline as three question marks: “???”. When an enemy displays the three-question-mark symbol, watch out for conditional techs.

Enemy conditional techs can be stymied by using techs with the “quell” characteristic, allowing you to fight without hindrance.

Chains

Chains are a type of conditional tech that follow on from an ally’s action earlier in Action Order. Even if this first action would otherwise be the last in a sequence, Chains will move to appear in the Action Order directly after this initial action. If a Chain action connects to the combo range, it presents an opportunity to deal even more damage. But beware: Chain actions can also break the flow of a United Attack.

Pursuits

While Chain actions take place right after an ally’s action, Pursuits slot into the Action Order after an enemy action. Since they allow you to jump in to take action directly after an enemy action, Pursuits make it easy to disrupt enemy United Attacks.

Conditional techs with the Chain or Pursuit characteristics show up in the timeline as a dotted line when used.

Players can choose to begin their story as one of the following protagonists. Each possesses the rare ability to see emerald waves that present choices of their destinies:

• Tsunanori Mido – A man who can manipulate kugutsu, or animated puppets, which protect the barrier around his home, Miyako City. When the city is plagued by all kinds of supernatural phenomena, Tsunanori embarks on a journey to other worlds to find four elemental spirits in order to restore order to the spiritual realm.
• Ameya – A witch-in-training who visits Miyako City and lives in secret as a schoolgirl as a part of her graduation exam. After Ameya is attacked by an unknown man, she loses practically all of her magical power and must find a way to regain what was lost and pass her final exam.
• Siugnas – An immortal vampire who rules over Yomi, a world shrouded in darkness, as the Dismal King. However, after being betrayed and driven from his throne, Siugnas finds himself in Brighthome—the gathering place of dead warriors—and must set out on a journey to recover his powers alongside the other warriors in his squadron.
• Diva No.5 – A songstress mech designed to sing and dance from the world of Avalon. After singing a forbidden song, however, Diva’s memory and singing functionality are sealed away, causing her to lose her livelihood and music itself. In her despair, Diva discards her “human” body and, going with the flow, accepts an invitation from a secret society, leaving Avalon behind.
• Bonnie and Formina – Two new recruits and partners on the Capitol City police force who are investigating an assassination attempt on the President. With a key person of interest’s claim that the president is a traitor and a mysterious triangle piece as their only clues, they set off on a journey through other worlds to uncover the hidden truth behind the incident.

SaGa Emerald Beyond is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, mobile (iOS/ Android) and PC (Steam) on April 25, 2024.