Panzer Dragoon Remake for Nintendo Switch

[Gameguy]

It's mostly the u.s version of panzer dragoon 1&2 that are expensive now while the japanese ones are still cheaper in price.Same can be said for saga too.

I'm pretty sure I had North American copies at some point, excluding Saga. I didn't bother keeping them as I personally didn't get into the games much. I remember playing the games, at least the first Panzer Dragoon, which is why I think I owned copies at some point. Back when you could still find Saturn games at thrifts or from classifieds for cheap. I'm just surprised I can't clearly remember owning or selling them as I usually remember this stuff with games pretty well.

There's nothing wrong with buying Japanese copies to save money except they would be a bit difficult to run on US hardware and they're in Japanese instead of English. There's a lot of games where I'm just waiting to find proper English copies just so I can understand them better, they're mostly still all cheap in Japan.

[Tron 2.0]

I'm pretty sure I had North American copies at some point, excluding Saga. I didn't bother keeping them as I personally didn't get into the games much. I remember playing the games, at least the first Panzer Dragoon, which is why I think I owned copies at some point. Back when you could still find Saturn games at thrifts or from classifieds for cheap. I'm just surprised I can't clearly remember owning or selling them as I usually remember this stuff with games pretty well.

There's nothing wrong with buying Japanese copies to save money except they would be a bit difficult to run on US hardware and they're in Japanese instead of English. There's a lot of games where I'm just waiting to find proper English copies just so I can understand them better, they're mostly still all cheap in Japan.

Knowing japanese of course only matters for the jpn version of saga if you want to know the story etc.Japanese,Panzer Dragoon 1&2 are pretty much straight up rail shooters so knowing the language isn't a must at least.Though it's weird when the saturn ended by the late 90's the u.s version of panzer dragoon 1&2,were fairly cheap.Where is today the sega saturn has become collectable especially it's u.s releases.For the panzer dragoon remake there's talk of it getting a patch to address the controller issues.

[mailman187666]

I've been holding my Panzer Dragoon games since the mid 2000s, before prices got crazy. I was tempted by the classic edition over at LRG, but I rationalized with myself thinking I already have Panzer Dragoon games in real Saturn cases and wasn't worth the extra $20. I did order a standard copy though.

It does seem like most Saturn games you just really can't get cheap anymore period. I feel they are probably one of the hardest systems to find games in the wild for. Even if you do find them, it's usually the same sports titles with maybe a copy of Robotica or Daytona. I was actively collecting for Saturn and was watching Mega Man 8 go from a $40 game to a $200 in real time. I had actually just bought Mega Man X4 for saturn for $35 as probably the last time I would ever see low prices on Saturn games, because they all went up and stayed there after that. It made me take a break from collecting for a while but I got back into it within the past few years or so.

[SpaceHarrier]

They added the new soundtrack in an update. It's.. interesting. I much prefer the original.

While I like the remake, I agree with all the criticisms I've seen of it, including:

The dragon bobs up and down wildly, making it difficult to know where your hit box is
The lock on seems to be way too fussy, sometimes requiring multiple passes over an enemy to catch (I turned down the sensitivity to 85 to at least make it somewhat more reliable)
The camera is in way too close by default (you can push it out with the right stick, however)
There is a very noticeable 1/2 second delay between pushing a button to change your view to the sides to when it actually changes (I adjusted to this quickly enough, but ..why? It's been a long time since I played the original, I dont remember this kind of button lag)
very noticeable frame-rate drops at times (the worst I noticed was during the Episode 4 boss, for some reason)
Seems to be a very bare-bones release (though you can unlock some cheat menu options after you beat the game on Hard difficulty)

In addition, I'll add that the shadow quality is distractingly low quality and flickery (PC port will hopefully mend this)

I had some fun with it, despite the issues. Maybe not $24.99 fun. I'm supporting in hopes that Zwei actually follows, as I missed out on that one.

[Ryudo]

I opted for the LRG copy. So be a while before I play.

[Niku-Sama]

i wonder if LRG will handle the other physicals when the limited exclusive thing runs out

[SpaceHarrier]

They just dropped an update that apparently fixed nearly every issue I outlined in my previous post.

Except the darn flickery shadows.