There was also a Sega Ages version of the game for the Sony PlayStation 2, which spruced up the visuals and smoothed everything out (including bumping the frame rate to a more natural 30 FPS). Notable for being a rail shooter that allowed a full 360-degree camera rotation to fight enemies in all directions. The black dragon kills the blue dragon's rider, who urges Kyle to mount his creature to one of the Towers so it can be destroyed. Panzer Dragoon, released for the Sega Saturn (and PC) in 1995, players take control of Keil/Kyle, a mutant hunter whose excursion into the desert is interrupted when he witnesses a battle between two dragons, the most powerful genetically engineered monsters spoken of legend.The games which comprise this series include: In the midst of this, The Empire ruthlessly seeks to harness the power of the Lost Technology from the Ancients to unite all humanity and its colonies, but are prevented by general fear and confusion, as every so often, a single dragon and its Rider appears from almost nowhere to combat them. Mankind is forced to attempt to live on a halfway barren Scavenger World. The Ancient's cryogenics failed, leaving them all dead. Then the people who actually knew how to work the things, the Ancients, put themselves to sleep for a couple thousand years to wait for the terraforming to complete itself and left everyone else to fend for themselves.įlash forward centuries later, and everything has gone to pot: the Towers never completed the terraforming, instead spewing out hostile monsters constantly. The series is famous for its beautiful soundtrack, After the End plotline and surreal Science Fiction atmosphere, owing a lot to Dune, French artist 'Moebius' (who drew the box art for the first game in Japan and is credited with some design inspiration), and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (more of the manga than the anime).įar in the distant future, mankind colonized another unspecified planet ( Wild Mass Guessing makes it likely it's Mars), thanks to harnessing the power of Terraforming run by Artificial Humans from giant Towers that spit out streams of artificial creatures. The first, second and fourth game are Dragon Rider Rail Shooters, while the third is a unique Eastern RPG. A tetralogy of games made for the Sega Saturn and Microsoft Xbox.

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