![]() Theyre also the guys behind Jet Set Radio and Jet Set Radio Future for the Dreamcast and Xbox, respectively. ![]() Nowadays theyre known as Sega Sports R&D and are responsible for all those Mario & Sonic at the Olympics games that come out every two years. The game was developed for the Sega Saturn by Team Andromeda, the in-house Sega production team that later became SmileBit when they made Panzer Dragoon Orta for Microsoft. Three-and-a-half games followed in its wake: Panzer Dragoon Zwei (Saturn 1996), Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn 1998), Panzer Dragoon Orta (Xbox 2002), and the series spiritual successor, Crimson Dragon (Xbox One 2013), which had a lot of the original PD talent behind it. Panzer Dragoon received rave reviews when it debuted in 1995, even being dubbed Electronic Gaming Monthlys ∻est Saturn Game of July 1995, and later netted the 140th spot in EGMs ∲00 Greatest Games of Their Time list. When Lagis original rider, a mysterious being known as the Sky Rider, is killed by the Dark Dragon, Kyle takes up the Riders quest to stop the Dark Dragon from reaching a structure known as the Tower, and using its power to destroy civilization. Kyle stumbles into a battle being waged between Lagi and the evil Dark Dragon. ![]() ![]() Its a sci-fi/fantasy rail shooter game in the vein of StarFox and Space Harrier set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland world and centered around a young desert hunter named Kyle Fluge (alternately spelled Keil), and a mysterious armoured blue dragon (named Lagi by fans after the name Lundi gives his dragon in the prequel game Panzer Dragoon Zwei). Panzer Dragoon was released for the Sega Saturn by Sega itself in 1995 as a Saturn launch title. Lifes a bitch and then youre suddenly making games for the guys you ran a multi-million dollar ad campaign snidely mocking. Then Nintendo released the Nintendo 64 in 1996 and the Sega Saturn imploded into a gaming history footnote. For a brief stretch in the mid-90s, when Sega was still known around the world as a console making company, Panzer Dragoon was the Sega Saturns flagship console-selling game, eclipsed only by its successor Panzer Dragoon Saga in terms of critical prestige.
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