This game is my lifeblood. so good.

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God i hated this game as a kid 😂, still weirdly nostalgic though, i guess when we got games as kids, thats all we had so we had to enjoy it.

The minecart segments are bad, but they're not that bad. I never did them in first-person, though, that seems like a bad idea lmao

Now I remember why I never finished this game... the FUCKING Minecart section! Ugh... I had somehow blocked that out, and now I'm feeling anger from 30 years ago. Oof.

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This was my fav game as a kid on the saturn! It was by far ahead of its time. Capturing the random bad dudes. Diff endings. Im glad my dad had randomly bought this for me lol 🫡

27:06 *Goddamn tea drinking Englishman stealing our sugar!*

NICE

Actually the PS1 was originally going to be 2D.

Hmm, ahead of its time. I think?

The sentence while fighting the clone with the blue guy earned you a subscriber.

Had this as a kid. Didn't like it much lol

I knew that there was a reason why I just didn’t feel the inkling to buy this game. Firstly I really despise the platform jumping in landstalker. It never felt right to me, but I loved the sprites mixed in with the 3D environments. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying this game is bad, but I just wouldn’t have gotten far with the platforming. I loved my Saturn way more than my PS1, it’s just too bad that Sega of Japan wouldn’t listen to Sega of America about the release date, plus they gave basically no support to the U.S.

I got this with my mom in toys r us as a kid and my friends and I were creeped out and confused. I re bought it but never did get far

I just completed the game yesterday and was looking for a fair review that shows some interest in what the game was trying to do with the parallel stuff and what triggers it. Good job being I think the only one to do a good video on it lol. One thing I think you might've missed in the narrative is the thing where Carbon Garian is the "Dark Savior", he was the original Garian who killed the child at the beginning, executed by carbonite and is forced to live out parallel after parallel in 'dreams' or nightmares playing the hero/savior he would've liked to be. He keeps waking up and repeating the same dreams stuck in an infinite loop forever and in none of the parallels does he break free, always waking back up in the Seabandit. Pretty grim! I'll also say for the minecart sequence, this game recently got a set of achievements on retroachievements which does encourage me to play retro games legitimately without save stating (the extra incentive is Hardcore Achievements which are worth more but disable save states) so imagine my despair upon realizing what I was into with the minecarts and silver castle. With the minecarts though, a strategy that worked for me is the speed running technique of Pause Buffering! All that gdq watching did end up helping in the end :) Also worked perfectly on Retroarch's beetle saturn.

In my childhood we managed to complete this game on Japanese. We were playing import and had no clue of what was happening.

Nice, I always wanted this one but hear it takes a ton of time to level up.

I remember playing this when it was new. I really enjoyed it and thought the different time-lines and capture-transformation things were cool ideas. Some interesting character designs too. Totally agree that the minecart section was a big mark of shame on an otherwise awesome game. No issue with anyone feeling they need to save-state it. Not having a two player fighting game as an unlockable bonus was a missed opportunity. Did you do story 3 before 2?

pffft imagine minecarting without save states! I'm not a kid anymore I don't have that raging determination + infinite time anymore xD love your reviews fam truly! can't wait to finiish this vid when I get home later

Dude. I've never heard of this game or your channel but you just got a sub for telling me about it. I need to find this game. I look forward to watching more of your content!!

I think I got it the 2nd parallel on my 2nd run when I was able to beat Bailen and captured the guy in the chariot

That sideshow bob reference earned you a sub 👍

I have a physical copy and a saturn, but i've not gotten far in it and the capture system... well it wouldn't always trigger for me. That minecart section seems extra brutal. Looks great visually and over all it's quite unique.

I don't remember the minecart bit being a problem, or even as hard as some of the platforming! Maybe it's because real hardware and a CRT screen have a lot less latency. Or perhaps it's because I played a PAL version which could have ran a bit slower. Or all the above.

Drizzit? What is this the Forgotten Realms?

That minecart section is legitimately evil. I cannot fathom how anyone would be able to do that on original hardware. Props for getting done even with save states 👏

A fellow MST3K fan I see, lol. "Big Mclarge Huge, Thick Thunderbulk, Bob Johnson, oh wait". Took me a bit to realize you were using AI voices to add in jokes a few times, lol. Guess I wasn't playing close enough attention.

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I never finished it. I can see why. 😂

Holly molly that map section, madness inducing

Happy to discover new unknown junk games. Subscribed!

A review of this game in 2025? How unexpected.... i have it but never finished it. Only was interested because of how much fun Landstalker was and while interesting it is, in my opinion, worse then Landstalker but what i played was not bad either. Fun times indeed.

Always love to see it when this game gets some love.

Tip for those wishing to play. There is a bug with the Bilan type enemies - you can fit them from the front and gain the same damage boost as attacking them from behind by turning around and spin kicking them. To do this, run towards Bilan, then while holding run, press away and attack. I got into a habit of hit and run tactics using the spin kick. This is a tip from a loyal Dark Savior fan who played through the game numerous times on all Parallels trying to find EVERYTHING back in the late 90s.

This duuude out here acting like we have space in our calendars to check for another creators uploads.. So, I downloaded a new calendar app.

I played all 3 parallels in order on the Sega Saturn console. That means no save states and thanks for empathy. Nice to see someone discuss and play this obscure game.

This guy's pretty good

Oh my god, to think someone is out there that TALKS about this game. This was my FIRST sega saturn RPG and it was ground breaking from the traditional 2d sprites we had for the 16 bit era. Evidently, the western/english version is still incomplete as some Parallels chapters are missing that were censored. Considering the story and what our character does in the first 40 minutes of gameplay while intoxicated (or nearly does) you can kind of see why some things were cut. It's a certified classic for for saturn fans. Needs a steam Sega AGES re release along with Dragonforce 1 and 2.

You intentionally left Parallel 2 out to make me rewatch the video in order to prove I wasn't crazy, didn't you Didn't you

Maybe it's bc I'm aware this is fiction and was made almost 20 yrs ago and feel no real need to judge it by 'today's standards' on top of generally being hard to offend in the first place, but no... characterizations of super flaminess don't bother me. I'm a guy who's not really into guys either, so that may or may not have anything to do with it....? I dunno. Never gave it much thought and just prefer to let myself go along for the ride and let the game's world do it's thing in whatever fabulous way it wants... Ngl, I do want to play this... if for no other reason than to see how FromSoft does a JRPG.

..I like the reviews, but I hate the 'modern is better' kinda sentiment i hear sometimes.

Went to sub, already was 😂.

Never made it past the starting section. Those platform jumping parts are extremely infuriating, being forced to do all that shit over and over again if you fuck up.

The mine cart section broke me as a child so I never beat this game. I've still got the game and console so I'll give it another shot. Dragon Force is another really good Saturn game!

25:35 honestly I love the combat in bioforge and I used to spend a lot of time coming up with combos