The 7th Saga Retroview

RPGamer · Jul 19, 2026

Seven Levels of Pain The 7th Saga was a game I found at a local rental shop near my house. The box said RPG, and perhaps I had seen it mentioned in a Nintendo Power magazine, but it did not have much fanfare supporting it. Regardless of what drew me in, what I found when playing this game was a reality check: it was hard. I thought I knew what difficult SNES RPGs were, but this game was on a different, unforgiving level. Unbeknownst to my younger self, this game was made harder for American players. Still, there was something that kept drawing me back to this game, no matter how many times I…