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>Or is it just a rough draft like Akalabeth where the next game is where the series actually begins?
Pretty much, many things from SaGa to SaGa 2 got either dropped or reworked, the first SaGa was very rough around the edges and it was an experiment at creating a system. SaGa 2 polishes the original SaGa system and sets some standards that are further elaborated in the Romancing Trilogy and the first Frontier title.
SaGa 3 is the black sheep of the series in the sense that it's basically a Final Fantasy game trying to be SaGa, the DS remake fixes that and makes it play like a SaGa game, though it's still an interesting title, for instance, it predated Chrono Trigger's "time travel" gimmick.
>So I guess romancing is meant in the sense of Romance of the 3 Kingdoms then.
Nope, originally, the Romancing stood in because of a particular quest in the first Romancing SaGa which involved an actual romance between a knight and a fair lady in which you have to help said knight, and also because it sounds cool.
All games in the Romancing Trilogy have some sort of quest that involves romance, though curiously, RomaSaGa 2's "romancing" quest doesn't have romance, there's another quest for that.
>Why is the G in SaGa capitalized?
Because it looks cool, it's like asking why characters in the series make dynamic poses like JoJo during battles, it's all about being cool and romancing, son.