Originally released as Elnard, The 7th Saga is a Produce-developed JRPG that - premise aside (the hero can either compete with or join other warriors to collect MacGuffins, an idea taken from Wizardry VII), is mainly a decent collection of dejavu (elemental themes, straightforward frontview combat, grindy linear world/dungeon progress) whose variations are too minimal to notice. A more practical exception to the rule - however, involves their encounters, a real-time system that uses blips on a radar-like minimap to initiate battle, halfway between on-map mobs and step-based RNG.