The 7th Saga - Reception

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon #201 by Sandy Petersen in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Petersen gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.

A common complaint among players was the sudden difficulty spike after the player's character is sent to the past, because you cannot return to the present and fight weaker enemies in order to level your character. It was possible for a player's character to be too weak to defeat the random enemies in the past, which made it virtually impossible to level your character and continue the game.

Also, the fact that you no longer have the runes makes the game that much harder, as all runes provided a service to your characters. Players had to make sure that they stocked up on the B-line of items, such as B-Prtct and B-Power. Although players may have done this, it was still rather difficult to even reach Gariso and even harder to beat him, which thereafter, you no longer have the runes.

Past Gariso, most enemies are much more difficult to defeat, and with a weaker party, if you couldn't defeat any enemies to raise your levels up enough, the only recourse was to restart your game.

A simple strategy is to save the game, try to get into a fight against a single enemy, and hopefully dodge its attacks and not miss yours; repeat this as necessary and in short time you will be strong enough to start fighting 2 or more opponents and continue leveling rapidly.