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Post by grolt on Mar 1, 2009 1:13:11 GMT
While I can't speak for the Japanese games, the US ones mentioned are all pretty top notch. Astal, of course, is a favorite, but Mr. Bones is right up there as one of the Saturn's finest exclusives. I've never played a platformer with such variety - you are literally playing a different kind of game with each of the twenty odd levels. All the cut scenes (and the fact that the skeleton is a black jazz musician) are totally awesome. Powerslave is beautiful and controls like a dream, even if the enemies aren't entirely the most menacing or captivating. Baku Baku is also, indeed, great puzzle fun. I still haven't really played Sega Touring Car for more than a few moments, but that review certainly doesn't have me salivating for it either: "At first the game may not seem so great, only 4 cars, 3 tracks, and a weak number of racing modes make it lack depth. In fact when I started playing the game, I thought I had wasted the cash I spent on it, the framerate is horrible, the graphics are bland, and the courses are somewhat boring. The turning is also a little too realistic, which may turn off the people expecting Sega Rally style turning…” Probably not the best paragraph to highlight the game... Princess Crown must be pretty damn good if it beats out Dark Savior for the Action RPG title of choice.
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Post by cj_iwakura on Mar 1, 2009 15:01:49 GMT
For me, it's Mystaria: The Realms of Lore/Blazing Heroes.
Very good strategy RPG for its time, and great story.
Same with Shining The Holy Ark, only it's a dungeon crawler.
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Post by grolt on Mar 1, 2009 18:45:48 GMT
For me, it's Mystaria: The Realms of Lore/Blazing Heroes. Very good strategy RPG for its time, and great story. Same with Shining The Holy Ark, only it's a dungeon crawler. I've only briefly sampled Mystaria, but it's pretty amazing the detail of graphics they were able to pull off there for a launch title. I believe it has the distinction of being the first polygonal 32-bit RPG. A fine beginning, if the start is any indication. It's a game I hope to get to soon down the line. I'm actually playing Holy Ark right now. The way it is all put together is pretty impressive, how fights transpire right there in real-time rather than having to morph to the generic battle screen. The controls are pretty intuitive, too, so you can really rip through commands. Still, there's a bit too much crawling for my taste, and the story bits are all pretty canned. Still, I'm liking it, it's just taking me forever to work up the interest to keep continuing on with it.
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Post by Warlok on Mar 1, 2009 22:28:54 GMT
For me, it's Mystaria: The Realms of Lore/Blazing Heroes. Very good strategy RPG for its time, and great story. Same with Shining The Holy Ark, only it's a dungeon crawler. I've only briefly sampled Mystaria, but it's pretty amazing the detail of graphics they were able to pull off there for a launch title. I believe it has the distinction of being the first polygonal 32-bit RPG. A fine beginning, if the start is any indication. It's a game I hope to get to soon down the line. I'm actually playing Holy Ark right now. The way it is all put together is pretty impressive, how fights transpire right there in real-time rather than having to morph to the generic battle screen. The controls are pretty intuitive, too, so you can really rip through commands. Still, there's a bit too much crawling for my taste, and the story bits are all pretty canned. Still, I'm liking it, it's just taking me forever to work up the interest to keep continuing on with it. You kidding me? Mystaria is ugly as balls. The town-sequences are nothing but hilarious (laughable that they even have movie samples from it on the bootleg sampler cd, that's foolin' no one) and the rest is SOMETIMES ok, like the battles and the attack animations, but mostly... Oh God it's a mess. Quite fun though. Owned both PAL and NTSC version, the latter right now. Sold the PAL one since it was scratched and some spells made the game freeze.
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