Official Sega Saturn Thread

[bbobb]

Oh yeah, you should get Deep Fear if you like RE games Strider. It's a fun little game that is also quite cheap.

[Grave]

Biohazard There are seven versions of this game and now I own the worst one. I've beaten 2,3,Veronica & 4, but after all these years I've still never finished the first one.

It may be hideous, but I've also played the Saturn version to completion! I think it was in my head back then, but I'd swear the audio was a little more clear on the Saturn version. I remember "Jill sandwich" actually sounding like "Jill sandwich" and not "Jibble sandwich." Maybe my hearing was improving due to the Saturn RE graphics making me blind?

It also wins for having the best box art of any US release of the first RE.

[MechDeus]

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All you did was discuss the manner in which RS handles chaining. That's great, but it doesn't actually mean or add anything to the point you presented. Look at games like McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure or Dynamite Headdy, I cannot honestly believe you feel those are superior games on the merits of what they've added to their genres.

GH is MD YYH with 3 planes instead of 2 turned into a sidescroller.

ME is GOW slapped into KOTOR, but still makes for a fairly unique take on RPGs. We going somewhere with this?

Incidentally, what do you guys think is the best shooter on the system? Everybody seems to have a different opinion. Radiant Silvergun gets namedropped the most by far, but people are often quick to cut it down. Battle Garegga seems to be the most universally praised.

RS gets name-dropped because it did a lot of stuff differently, which is fantastic but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll think it's amazing to play. It's definitely a good game, I think what most people argue over is the whole "BEST SHMUP EVAR" nonsense. I enjoyed it but considering the price it commands it was also one of the first games I sold when I needed some cash, to give you an idea of how much it meant to me. A lot of why I liked it was the presentation (it's got a cool time-traveling story, nifty multi-segmented bosses, and some sweet stages), but it's also slower paced and I couldn't help but feel it got upstaged in most every way by Ikaruga. Except for the hidden dogs, that was a cute touch I liked.

Battle Garegga is loved by a lot of people but I hated the blend-in-with-the-background bullets of the arcade version. There's the argument that they work really well because you can tell by looking at them which way they're pointed and thus where they're going, but since I could hardly see them in the first place that meant nothing to me and that's also a problem I don't normally have (a fix to an issue that doesn't exist whee). The Saturn version, as mentioned, adds an option for pink bullets, but as I don't own it I've never gotten to try it. Seemed pretty good aside from the bullet issue, which has a solution.

I played a bunch of Layer Section but it never grabbed me. It's okay.

Thunderforce V I played on PS and felt about the same way as I did about Layer Section. Granted, that was a Working Designs port so they might've fucked around with the gameplay for all I know.

DDP, naturally, though I got hooked more on DOJ when it came out. I would probably still play if the PS3 wasn't region-locked on PS2 games.

[mannerbot]

Batsugun imo.

[kingoffighters]

Battle Garegga, Radiant Silvergun, Thunderforce V and Shienryu imo.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Burning Rangers had a shooter mini game hidden in it. I've looked a few places and can't find the trick to get to it. Anyone remember it?

[MechDeus]

Burning Rangers had a shooter mini game hidden in it. I've looked a few places and can't find the trick to get to it. Anyone remember it?

From GameFAQs:

If you manage to rescue any of the Sonic Team in the game, they usually
give you passwords, pictures, and some information. Remember, you are
usually able to rescue them more than once to get more mail.

Play Round 3 twice and you'll get a letter from that kid. He gives you the
subgame which is like the Sonic tunnel except you can shoot missiles.

That what you're talking about? It's been a long time for me so I can't remember.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

All I remember was that it was a simple looking forward scrolling shooter. You could access it with a code or maybe it was a Gameshark code. However I got it, I know it wasn't from actually playing the game.

[Low]

I seem to recall Thunderforce Gold Pack 2 took at least some of the slowdown out of 4, good collections to seek out. *-neo

[bbobb]

I wish I could find that reasonably priced.