(like writing a review that few will read?) But in the new high-speed Internet age that has brought with it a glut of cheap, consumable media, if any game were to make the case for being worth $1000 used, it is PDS.

1 Corinthians 13:11 states “When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child When I became a man, I put aside childish things.” As such, these days I’m of the opinion that the vast majority of video games are not worth the increased price that has come with the past decade, and probably not worth playing at all when comparing your time to other more worthwhile pursuits.

Panzer Dragoon Saga on the other hand, is arguably one of the best RPGs of all-time. The likes of Stadium Events, Pal Joey, or the Nintendo World Championship ‘90 gold cart are little more than novelties to the video game historian. It is not often that an expensive game is also an extremely good, well-developed game. This has vaulted PDS to the status of one of the holy grails of classic video games. Today, the game is known more for its exorbitant price tag, extremely low print run, and rumored loss of source code preventing a re-release by SEGA. Team Andromeda was already known for the two hit rail-shooters in the Panzer Dragoon series for the Saturn, but they clearly took the series, and the Sega Saturn system as a whole, to new heights with PDS. This is all the more tragic since PDS itself suffered a troubled development process at Sega’s in-house Team Andromeda, during which one of the developers sadly took his life (though reportedly NOT because of the stress of the game’s development), while another died in a motorcycle accident.

Unsurprisingly, after the failure of the Sega Saturn to gain market traction due to numerous blunders of previous years by SEGA during the mid-to-late ’90s, the game launched to very little fanfare. Panzer Dragoon Saga ( PDS) is the undisputable swan song of the Sega Saturn, a system already known for its abundance of RPGs at the time of the game’s release on April 30, 1998. Genre: RPG Developer: Team Andromeda Publisher: Sega Ent.

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