I guess I should have been more clear on the "eMuLaTiOn" comment because I assumed people with you know, common sense, would understand that I OBVIOUSLY meant PC emulation where is up-scales the resolution and smooths everything so the games look drastically different from when they first came out. "Ps3 Is EmUlAtIoN bUdDy!" is not the same thing. Thanks for coming to my TED talk, don't feed the trolls.

>coming out of a PS3 >not emulated buddy

"All versions of the PS3 use software emulation to play PS1 games" right in big bold letters when you search using any search engine mate. Have a good one.

I still think spyro 2 has some of the best graphics on the ps1. The worlds seem so big and are mostly seamless. The animations are top notch.

that is impressive on Terracon to see mouth animations. Even some ps2 games the mouths stayed still, like the characters were thinking what they were saying. But no I haven't heard of it before.

Great video and narration. I would just say that the background music gets annoying after a while, it's way too small of a loop to be played for 40 minutes straight.

Where do we find the translation?

Are there plans to translate the psp version of princess crown?

So if you don't like fighting games or SHMUP's don't bother looking into the Sega Saturn, got it .

Beautiful Game ❤

I'm the Translator finishing up what SamIAm originally worked on. eadmaster originally invited me to finish up the remaining lines. I've been Translating remaining Japanese lines to English to get this released and I have found some Translation errors made by SamIAm I am also fixing. My goal is to fix and finish remaining lines SamIAm did not finish for the release 😊 I also covered this game on my KZbin Channel too, I think that may be why I was invited lol

Finally someone took over this project, CWX and SIA were probably not going to release it for atleast another 5 years. I get that even their latest personal patch has softlock issues, but if they released it to the public for assistants, it would likely be resolved way faster than 11+ years and counting. I expect we will find out if that's the case if eadmaster solves the softlock issues or other coders do. But the lack of updates or a playable sample tells me these guys were never going to release it to the public for free. It was probably gonna be attached to a pay wall of some sort, like you gotta buy a PolyMega or something. Lesson here is, rest on your laurels too long and the world will pass you by.

Late to the party, but I do think Shining Wisdom and Mystaria are odd choices. Astal, fine, I might even agree with that, SoN and Burning Rangers are both certainly arguable (SoN, yeah, probably, Burning Rangers is one I haven't spent enough time with to actually opine). But I don't think either Shining Wisdom or Mystaria ever got that much popular reaction to be called overrated. Even fans of the Shining IP (and Shining Force was the very first game, and therefore franchise I personally became passionate about as a kid) don't think that Wisdom is one of the better titles. And while Mystaria got a certain amount of "first released RPG" cachet, even people who are fond of it usually concede that whatever it is, it's not GREAT (fun fact, I finally played it front to back a couple of years ago despite owning it for a lot longer than that, the rough graphics and slightly clunky mechanics put me off when I tried it when I was young, I ended up enjoying it a lot more than I expected). Still I would never call it overrated, I don't think it's good enough for people to start talking it up like that. I don't know what my top five would be off the top -- Astal is a smart pick. I like that game, but the gameplay gets a bit bland pretty fast, and people love Astal for it's art design. D, maybe, I would say less overrated and more just dated, but still. As an rpg fan I feel like I get less out of Dragon Force than most people seem to, although it's a great game. Guardian Heroes I have some quibbles with the mechanics. Number 5 though? I'm not sure... Maybe just for a personally painful choice I'll throw Shining the Holy Ark in; one of my favorites, a classic, easily in my top 10 even if it narrowly misses the top 5. Maybe

thank you, my brother and i have tried to reremember nights into dreams so many times by vaguely describing the game to each other.

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If you don't accidentally hit the super move right away you're doing it wrong so... Kudos!👏

If I ever won a billion dollars, I would start a game studio to remake this game mixed with X-Men 1 and 2 from Genesis, all in one package with all the RPG and metroidvania upgrades that make sense. 2D X-Men Legends or Ultimate Alliance might be a better description. With a bajillion playable characters with all their different variants and costumes. I'd pay a full time team for a decade to polish and fill it out. No private island, no jet, yeah I'll have a nice car or two and a big house. But my psycho rich guy move = new old X-Men game. All the bells and whistles including the 2 screen 8 player arcade cabinets. And just get the license--you make a good game and have money for the license it won't be hard. Hey Disney want a couple million for doing nothing? Depending on how development goes, it'll morph into X-Men vs TMNT vs Simpsons. That's what my fortune would go to if I had a fortune.

I definitely played this back in the day. I played the six player version and the four player version. And I played the game that this game was a reskin of, call metamorphic Force. I currently have an emulation of this game, and it plays awesome on my OG Xbox.

I have the arcade rom on my SNES mini

Mostly played 4 player version at cons thr 6 player one was at prge this year i think only cyclops was slightly broken (no up or down movement), very cool I'll take a look.

I played the crap out of the arcade game back in the day. Played both the 4- and 6-player versions. I mainly used Nightcrawler, but I also liked playing as Dazzler. This project looks amazing and I eagerly await its completion. Having this on Saturn will be a blast for sure!

I remember playing this in a few places. A skating ring and at a big laundromat in my neighborhood back in the early 90s. The movie theaters always had the 6 player cabinet.

Where to find the update? Great review!

I think I played this through 2 or 3 times back when I got my copy, circa the late 2000's, early 10's or so and had very warm feelings about it. Yes, it's a jrpg and a pretty generic one in terms of genre conventions, but the art, the atmosphere, the music. And yes, some of the translation is worth the occasional giggle. I played it again recently and thoroughly enjoyed it, but mostly for it's gameplay. On this revisit I found the story a bit lackluster from what I remembered. On the other hand, a straightforward happy ending relationship between Pike and Eka that lasts from midgame to, y'know, the happy ending part is almost unique. It's not great, but I am fond of it. Perhaps because I like JRPGS -- but I feel like anyone who enjoys the genre will enjoy this game. Mostly. The irritations are all also the baked in

ABYSMAL. Never in my life have I felt that frustrated because of janky physics and terrible controls. You guys in the comments are blinded by nostalgia, and I'm a Saturn fanboy. This belongs in the TRASH. Even the WORST racing games on Saturn play better than this s***. -10/10.

It's true that the Saturn had problems with transparency and certain color effects but flip that around, games like Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2 would be impossible on the PS1

Nice list! I love the Sega Saturn, but when it comes to 3D games, the system struggled and couldn't keep up with the PS1 and N64 especially.

1:05 what game is that?

Slay

What you call "checkerboard" transparency is actually called "dithering"'. The more you know!

Awesome review! I did one on my channel and a longplay for anyone who wants to check it out! It's got timestamps for some if the funny parts ect. Great video! Liked and subscribed!

Not me vibing to the intro music🫢

Great memories of this one.

Taromaru is my personal fave from this list

This is awesome! We need a Saturn port!

Walaber? I'm pretty sure they made a game called stunt playground waaaaaay back in like 2005. I used to play the crap out of that on an old Dell windows xp system.

nice video

Interesting stuff! If there was more pop-in and the frame rate was capped at 30FPS, it would look even more authentic to what the Saturn delivered at the time. Actually, I just got to the part where you show other options and it indeed features 30FPS cap!

Great stuff! 🎉

I love this game.

Super awesome. Getting it.

Agree. Not a great playing game. I suspect Sega Lord X is the reason this game is so lauded now and the value rocketing. Nice visuals and soundtrack though, although there is better sprite work on saturn

It's a playable storybook

Amazing game.

I know it's not popular to like Sonic R, but the game was beautiful for its time. It used the Saturn to the fullest with transparencies, reflections, impressive geometry and texture work, all at a rock steady frame rate, and did so much a PlayStation port would've needed major cutbacks to run as good as it did. Travellers Tales were one of the few who truly pushed the Saturn hardware, if anyone could've given us the true 3D Sonic game the Saturn needed, it's them.

The final dungeon was annoying

Sunsoft is actually been very active lately. Bringing back old titles, and making some new games..

As far as Sunsoft being gone; funnily, they just released a sequel to their NES game Ufouria a few months ago. So they still exist.

It some respect, yes, it's better to have a translation than none, but the problem was Working Design at times took liberties to the extent that they changed the tone and context of a story to where it wasn't recognizable. We learned this through fan translation that came out later that did far better work. We would have missed out then, but we would have by now had a solid translation. Had I played this the time I did Lunar, I would have liked it, but it would take a bit for me to attempt it with better games in the backlog that need conquering.