Grandia is a role-playing video game, developed by Game Arts

and published by Entertainment Software Publishing for the Sega Saturn console

as the first game in their Grandia series. Released in Japan in 1997, the game

was ported to the PlayStation in 1999, with an English version of the game

appearing on the platform in North America in the following September by Sony

Computer Entertainment, and in Europe in 2000 by Ubisoft. The game was produced

by much of the same staff who worked on the company's previous role-playing

endeavor, the Lunar series, including producer Yoichi Miyagi and composer

Noriyuki Iwadare.