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[Anonymous No.9963793]

The most interesting thing about it is that it is on the Saturn. If it were on PS1, no one would care.

[Anonymous No.9963802]

>>9963793
pretty much. Nobody cared back then and its only popular now because of a rise in saturn youtubers

[sage No.9963980]

>>9963793
>>9963793
>>9963802
Every mediocre ps1 jrpg is labeled a hidden gem.

This game meanwhile, is 1 of a kind.

[Anonymous No.9963983]

>>9963980
This game meanwhile, is 1 of a kind
There's literally nothing special about it beyond its rarity.

[sage No.9964434]

>>9963980
>>9963983
There's literally no other game like this

[Anonymous No.9964476]

There's only 1 good PS1-era JRPG, and it's FF7. People are too obsessed with "the hidden gemmies" that don't exist.

[Anonymous No.9964504]

>>9963793
It's a pretty cool unique game but it's so damn overpriced for multiple reasons.
>Youtubers hyping it up
>Very low production in the west (compare to how cheap JP copies are)
>Never been re-released
>Saturn emulation is shit
It may be more playable now but I'm not sure. Either way the inaccessibility of the game has driven up a lot of hype for it as this hidden gem that's very difficult to actually play in any form. A release will probably never happen because I doubt there is much demand for a decomp official or unofficial and Sega in particular was REALLY notorious for losing source code on pretty much anything pre 2000s.

[Anonymous No.9964520]

>>9964504
Saturn emulation has gotten a lot better in the past several years, I played a bunch of Saturn games through Mednafen.

[Anonymous No.9964564]

>>9964476
>ff7
>good
>endless cutscenes
>buying into the marketing hype
ff7 has hyped up "mindblowing" cg cutscenes, and nigga, that is all.

[Anonymous No.9964589]

>>9964564
mini games, sidequests, materia system.
it has plenty going for it. easy to say it's overrated, but to say there's not much there or it wasn't good is just weird.

[Anonymous No.9964775]

>>9963793
If it were on PS1, or any other platform, it would be just as beloved because it is a great game.

[Anonymous No.9964842]

>>9963793
Lots of people on this thread who clearly haven’t played this game. It’s fantastic and very unique, if anything it should have been on the Playstation so more people could have enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.9965069]

>>9963802
>Nobody cared back then
nobody could find a copy, you mean. PDS had a limited print run in NA.

[Anonymous No.9965183]

>>9965069
If it had a limited run that means the market didn't care

[Anonymous No.9965191]

>>9963793
Probably the most important Saturn game I still haven't played. I want to give it a shot eventually though.

[Anonymous No.9965201]

>>9963793
I think it's an interesting game in its own way, but absolutely not worth the insane amount of money people ask for it. Pirate it instead.

[Anonymous No.9965209]

>>9965183
>If it had a limited run that means the market didn't care

No. It means that Sega was ready to discontinue the Saturn. the game came out in 1998, and Bernie announced that: The Saturn is not our future.

[Anonymous No.9965213]

>>9963983
First fully voice acted RPG, just to start
>>9965183
All games from the last year of game production got low numbered runs regardless of popularity.

[Anonymous No.9965216]

>>9965191
It's very short, you can complete it in less than 20 hours.

[Anonymous No.9965816]

>>9964504
That describes a lot of Saturn games in general. A lot of them are just okay imo but you'll still have fun with it. Protip, start with the first party games and Capcom games before getting into anything else.

>>9965216
Coming from someone who plays mostly Saturn's arcade ports (I rarely touch RPG's) that's long to me. I'm willing to give it a shot if I can free up enough space on my device for it. Also been planning to play the Macross game, Wolf Fang, and some of the sports titles as it's the only genre I haven't quite covered yet

[Anonymous No.9965859]

>>9964504
I played and finished the entire game on Yabause in 2021 and it was fine. Even used a widescreen hexcode mod.

[Anonymous No.9965862]

>>9965859
I played it emulated back in 2011 and it was already completely playable

[Anonymous No.9965875]

>>9965862
Many of us didn't care about Saturn in 2011 when we were and still are playing superior Genesis, SEGA CD, 32X, and Dreamcast games

[Anonymous No.9965880]

>>9965875
Yeah unfortunately not everyone was based enough to like the Saturn as well, even today.

[Anonymous No.9965961]

>>9965216
>It's very short, you can complete it in less than 20 hours.
5 hours per CD

[Anonymous No.9965968]

>>9964564
There's so much content in ff7.
You took the dipshit pilled talking points without even fucking playing the game. Kudos

[Anonymous No.9966004]

>want to get into Panzer Dragoon
>3 of them are on the Saturn
>the gen 6 one is on the OG Xbox of all things
It's like this series is for 'the chosen ones' or some shit. I know there's a remake of the first game on the Switch but apparently it's shit. I wish Saturn emulation was perfect

[Anonymous No.9966007]

It has a very interesting combat mechanic that's aged well and the dragons are cool as shit, but the graphics are very bad even for a 1998 game, the interactions with other characters are very stiff and the game is an adventure, not an rpg.
They should've ported the game to the Dreamcast, or made a PC port like they did with Panzer Dragoon 1.

[Anonymous No.9966010]

>>9966004
Panzer Dragoon 1 has a 1996 PC port which both looks better (480p) and runs better than the Saturn version + gamepad control(a bit iffy tho). It works with Win10 too.

[Anonymous No.9966014]

>>9966004
Just save up some money and by an Xbox and Saturn. Xboxs with broken dvd drives are cheap and easily moddable to have all games on an hdd. Japanese Saturn's + pseudo Cart is fairly cheap too. Trust me, it's way better than emulating and what I mean is that, you're more likely to play the games if you have the og hardware. It's an experience in itself.

[Anonymous No.9966035]

>>9965209
Cope. No one cares

[Anonymous No.9966074]

>>9966014
Good idea, but be weary: the common 1.6 model has issues doing a few games in 480p, and PD Orta is one of them. You can do patching on the Xbox to side step the issue, but it’s fairly involved. It’s worth the trouble though.

[Anonymous No.9966096]

the lore and combat is amazing, everything else not so much though
A modern JRPG remake would be so welcome

[Anonymous No.9966298]

>>9963802
Are you retarded or just a zoomer?
People have been circlejerking Panzer Dragoon Saga and Shining Force III since the early 2000's as the Saturn's holy grails.

[Anonymous No.9966634]

>>9966298
when your library is 99% japanese exclusives or arcade ports, even the most mediocre of games will rise to the top

[Anonymous No.9966639]

>>9963793
I think it would have been more impressive if the entire game had lacked any text at all and just shown its story through visuals and use a symbol based system for battle mechanics. Keep the fake language, but dont translate it.

[Anonymous No.9966643]

>>9965209
Because people didn't care about the Saturn.

[Anonymous No.9966665]

>>9966004
I can't comment on the other Panzers, but Orta isn't what it's cracked up to be. The PD aesthetic look fucking amazing in HD and a couple music tracks are good, but the gameplay itself is stiff as shit and the boss fights could stand to be a little less long. Seriously, the bosses take 4 - 5 minutes on average and for SOME, not all, if you utilize the Dragoon Forms well you can only manage to shave it down to 3ish mins. The side content's more frustrating due to shitty gimmicks it's best you just watch them on Youtube.

[Anonymous No.9966667]

>>9963793
You probably didn't even play it

[Anonymous No.9966998]

I've never played it but I thought PD1 was very creative and cool. So I have to assume PDS is that but 10x cooler.
I wish I could play it. Maybe I'll finally set up a Saturn emulator. It's not ideal, but hopefully it'll be playable with no glitches.
I have to see this one for myself. It's been decades of me hearing about it

[Anonymous No.9967025]

>>9964564
>endless cutscenes
there's less than 1 hour of cutscenes in the entire game, for a 50 hour game

[Anonymous No.9967036]

>it's le unique
It's typical jarpig trash where you wait for meters to fill up then select attack from the menu
Then it has a "deep" meta ending because it's le art!!!

[Anonymous No.9967042]

>>9964476
There are many better PS1 JRPGs than FF7 like Tales of Eternia and Rhapsody.