Saturn Looking for some Saturn games

[ShadowBadger]

Hey all,
I am looking to play some Saturn games, but I am not sure where to start. I have looked at a few top games list but instead of just getting SEO or AI slop, hoping I can get some solid suggestions.

Genres I like: Action/Adventure, Racing, RPGs, Platformers/3D Platformers, Beat'em ups, Shoot'em ups.

Games I have to play already are Die Hard Arcade, Alien Trilogy, Sega Rally, Albert Odyssey, and Dragon Force.

I am playing on a Mister so, preferably stuff I can play on real hardware. I did not have a Saturn growing up, so I want to check out some of the best or even the just ok games it has. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

 

[hoy0]

Radiant Silvergun, Guardian Heroes, Panzer dragoon, Princess Crown, Silhouette Mirage. Have fun.

 

[Clippy]

You can start by looking up games that Sega and Capcom released on the console and go from there.

 

[χKai]

The Saturn version of Castlevania Symphony of the Night lets you play as Maria, and the Saturn version of Megaman 8 has some extra mini-bosses and content.

There's also the classic Nights Into Dreams.

 

[werewolfx]

sakura wars 1 and 2 have translations

 

[Eclipse14]

The Saturn is a special kind of treasure trove. A couple on my end.

Panzer Dragoon Saga
Magic Knight Rayearth
Linkle Liver Story (Japanese exclusive, but a fan translation exists)
Hyper Duel
Astal

There's also the compilation packs of Shoot-em-ups in Thunder Force (two volumes), Gradius, and Salamander.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

My biggest recommendation would easily be Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru. Imagine Alien soldier but instead of Jim Henson monsters it’s Sengoku Japan with Yokai and stuff. Easily the most underrated Saturn game IMO and a must play if you love either Ninja Games or 2d run n guns

 

[secreto7]

Legend of Oasis
Daytona

But seriously you could do a search with sega saturn + the genres you want, they seem all very good.

 

[ShadowBadger]

My biggest recommendation would easily be Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru. Imagine Alien soldier but instead of Jim Henson monsters it’s Sengoku Japan with Yokai and stuff. Easily the most underrated Saturn game IMO and a must play if you love either Ninja Games or 2d run n guns

This looks awesome. Going to snag it tonight. Thank you!

 

[bjork]

Body Special 264: Girls in Motion Vol 2
Miniskirt Police
Delisoba Deluxe
Eyeful Home
(you can't go wrong with anyone else's suggestions and they all said what I was going to say)

 

[ShadowBadger]

The Saturn is a special kind of treasure trove. A couple on my end.

Panzer Dragoon Saga
Magic Knight Rayearth
Linkle Liver Story (Japanese exclusive, but a fan translation exists)
Hyper Duel
Astal

There's also the compilation packs of Shoot-em-ups in Thunder Force (two volumes), Gradius, and Salamander.

Downloading Hyper Duel right now. Astal comes up a lot but I was not super into the art style, but maybe I will just get over that lol. When it comes to Magic Knight, would you recommend the "unworking designs" hack that is out there?

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

Here's a few shooters, Saturn has a lot of good ones.

 

[ShadowBadger]

sakura wars 1 and 2 have translations

I am sure somewhere I saw a video of these. Were they translated recently? Excited to check them out. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[nobitakun]

My favourite Saturn RPG: Shining the Holy Ark.

 

[bjork]

If you go to download Mystaria and/or Blazing Heroes, they're the same game, it just got a title change for some reason I never learned. It's an okay tactical rpg, but it sure looks like an early 3D game, heh.

 

[ShadowBadger]

My favourite Saturn RPG: Shining the Holy Ark.

Yes I am very excited about checking these out :)

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's iconTamagotchiTamaHero24]

Any Panzer Dragoon game, Astal, Daytona USA, Saturn Bomberman (and SatBomb Fight!!), Last Bronx, and any SEGA arcade port from the Super Scaler days.

 

[Eclipse14]

When it comes to Magic Knight, would you recommend the "unworking designs" hack that is out there?

I'm probably not the right person to ask that, largely because I've never played those hacks on any of the Working Designs games, and I don't really mind the differences that had been made for all their games. Call it a guilty pleasure, I guess, lmao.

My favourite Saturn RPG: Shining the Holy Ark.

The fact I did not initially say this, combined with actually playing it a couple days ago to test if my own Saturn was still fine, gives me great shame. Excuse me while I scrub my brain.

 

[Hourai]

The Saturn version of Castlevania Symphony of the Night lets you play as Maria

Also, it just flat-out looks better. The jack of all trades nature of the PSX doesn't turn out as well when it's a 2D game competing with the 2D fifth gen console.

 

[secreto7]

Shining Force III Scenario 1, 2 and 3.
The genres that mentioned @ShadowBadger are full of good games on the Saturn I think.

 

[SecretStrategist]

Since you've already mentioned Die Hard Arcade, Alien Trilogy, Sega Rally, Albert Odyssey, and Dragon Force, try these Saturn games out if you're interested in them (warning, it's a long list):

Astal (Platformer)
Batsugun (Shoot'em up)
Battle Garegga (Shoot'em up)
Blast Wind (Shoot'em up)
Bug and Bug Too! (Platformer)
Bulk Slash (Shoot'em up)
Burning Rangers (Platformer)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Platformer)
Clockwork Knight 1 and 2 (Platformer)
Darius Gaiden (Shoot'em up)
Daytona USA Circuit Edition (Racing)
Detana Twinbee Yahoo! Deluxe Pack (Shoot'em up)
DonPachi and DoDonPachi (Shoot'em up)
Elevator Action Returns (Platformer)
Galactic Attack and Layer Section II (Shoot'em up)
Game Tengoku: The Game Paradise! (Shoot'em up)
Gekirindan (Shoot'em up)
Gex (Platformer)
Gradius Deluxe Pack (Shoot'em up)
Grandia and Deluxe Museum (RPG)
Guardian Force (Shoot'em up)
Guardian Heroes (Beat'em up RPG)
Gun Frontier (Shoot'em up)
Gunbird (Shoot'em up)
Hyper Duel (Shoot'em up)
Keio Flying Squadron 2 (Platformer)
Linkle Liver Story (Action RPG)
The Lunar games (Silver Star Story, Eternal Blue, and Magic School) (RPG)
Magic Knight Rayearth (Action RPG)
Mega Man 8 and X4 (Run and Gun Platformer)
Metal Black (Shoot'em up)
Metal Slug (Run and Gun Platformer)
Mystaria: The Realms of Lore (RPG)
Nekketsu Oyako (Beat'em up)
The Parodius games (Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack, Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius, and Sexy Parodius) (Shoot'em up)
Radiant Silvergun (Shoot'em up)
Rayman (Platformer)
The Sakura Wars games (1, 2, and Hanagumi Taisen Columns) (RPG and Puzzle)
Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus (Shoot'em up)
Saturn Bomberman and Fight!! (Action Puzzle)
Sengoku Blade: Sengoku Ace Episode II (Shoot'em up)
Shienryu (Shoot'em up)
The Shining Force Games (III, Holy Ark, and Wisdom) (RPG/Action RPG)
Shinobi Legions (Platformer)
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru (Platformer)
Shippu Mahou Daisakusen: Kingdom Grand Prix (Racing Shoot'em up)
Silhouette Mirage (Run and Gun Platformer)
Sonic Jam (Platformer)
Sonic Wings Special (Shoot'em up)
Soukyuu Gurentai Otokuyou (Shoot'em up)
SteamGear Mash (Shooting Platformer)
Tengai Makyou: The Apocalypse IV (RPG)
Three Wonders (Platformer/Shoot'em up)
Thunder Force V (Shoot'em up)
Tryrush Deppy (Platformer)
Twinkle Star Sprites (Versus Shoot'em up)
Vatlva (Racing Combat)
Willy Wombat (Platformer)

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Hey all,
I am looking to play some Saturn games, but I am not sure where to start. I have looked at a few top games list but instead of just getting SEO or AI slop, hoping I can get some solid suggestions.

Genres I like: Action/Adventure, Racing, RPGs, Platformers/3D Platformers, Beat'em ups, Shoot'em ups.

Games I have to play already are Die Hard Arcade, Alien Trilogy, Sega Rally, Albert Odyssey, and Dragon Force.

I am playing on a Mister so, preferably stuff I can play on real hardware. I did not have a Saturn growing up, so I want to check out some of the best or even the just ok games it has. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thunder Force V, 2/3 Ray games (they have weird naming schemes internationally so one may be named Layer Section and the other something else), Shienryu, Battle Garegga with an exclusive arrange ost, Donpachi, Dodonpachi, Metal Black, Darius Gaiden, and more when it comes to SHMUPs.

In fact I just remembered there’s hella installments to the Cotton franchise on Saturn

RPG library isn’t too shabby either. Shining Force III (internationally we only got a quarter of the game so also grab the fan translations of the extra scenarios), Shining Wisdom, Shining: The Holy Ark, Dark Savior, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (if you want to count Igavanias as half ARPG), Baroque, Princess Crown, Dragon Force and its fan translated sequel, Albert Odyssey, Linkle Liver Story, Lunar Silver Star Story, Grandia, Guardian Heroes, Magic Knight Rayearth, Sakura Wars, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (currently untranslated), Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgement, Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon, etc

I view everything as action adventure I’m ngl, vague ass genre

Beat Em Ups? Scarce genre. One of your only answers is probably going to be Nekketsu Oyako and that’s an obscurity. There’s probably more that I don’t know about.

Platformers? I’m not super on the know on Saturn platformers but I do know of a few. Keio Flying Squadron (yes, the SEGA CD SHMUP) oddly enough has a sequel that’s pure 2D platformer. Don’t ask me why. There’s also Steamgear Mash and Astal. If it counts, Sonic 3D Blast has a Saturn remaster. Never played it but Elevator Action Returns got a slick ost. Clockwork Knight was an attempt by SEGA to have a platformer series too but it didn’t work out, has two games though. Bug! also has two games.

Completely missed it my first read but as for racing games:

-Daytona USA
-Gale Rider (aka Rad Mobile, aka the racing game known only for the fact that it had Sonic in it before Sonic was a thing)
-Code R, a racing game/dating sim. Currently untranslated, don’t recommend playing it yet. I hear the game itself is kinda shoddy but come on how many racing games have dating in it?
-Need for Speed
-Sega Rally Championship

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

Beat Em Ups? Scarce genre. One of your only answers is probably going to be Nekketsu Oyako and that’s an obscurity. There’s probably more that I don’t know about.

D&D port is good, Crows is kind of neat. but ya, not a lot of beat em ups on the system.

 

[bjork]

Also, it just flat-out looks better. The jack of all trades nature of the PSX doesn't turn out as well when it's a 2D game competing with the 2D fifth gen console.

Gonna respectfully disagree here, for me the change in resolution makes it feel weird and the transparencies are still weird, even in the fixed versions. Other stuff aside from the visuals plant it as a lesser version, even if it technically has more content.

 

[stealthRUSH]

Rabbit (fighting)
Gungriffon 1 & 2 (mecha sim)
Shutokou Battle '97 (racing)
Stellar Assault SS (flight sim)
Dungeon Master Nexus (dungeon crawler)
Shadows of the Tusk (rpg)
Jung Rhythm (rhythm)
Arcana Strikes (rpg)
Ninpen Manmaru (platformer)
Policenauts (adventure)

Enemy Zero (adventure)
Purikura Daisakusen (action)
Groove on Fight (fighting)
Super Tempo (platformer)
Three Dirty Dwarves (beat'em up)
Puyo Puyo Tsuu & Sun (puzzle)
Vampire Savior (fighting)
PowerSlave / Exhumed / 1999AD (FPS)
Night Warriors (fighting)
Deep Fear (survival horror)

A•M•O•K (action)
Kyuukyoku Tiger II Plus (shoot'em up)
Elan Doree (fighting)
Wangan Dead Heat (racing)
Soukyugurentai (shoot'em up)
Pandemonium / Magical Hoppers (platformer)
Steam Hearts (shoot'em up)
Bubble Symphony (puzzle)
Side Pocket 3 (pool)
Noon (puzzle)

Pu•Li•Ru•La (beat'em up)
Mizubaku Daibouken (platformer)
Magical Drop II, III (puzzle)
Cyber Speedway (racing)
Gussun Oyoyo (puzzle)
Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels (FPS)
Cyberbots (fighting)
Robotica / Daedalus (FPS)
S.Q. Sound Qube (puzzle)
Wachenröder (rpg)

Grid Runner (action puzzle)
Wolf Fang: Kuhga 2001 (shoot'em up)
Assault Suit Leynos 2 (action)
Fantastic Pinball Kyutenkai (pinball)
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (fighting)
Puzzle Bobble 2, 3 (puzzle)
Astra Superstars (fighting)
G Vector (rail shooter)
Keriotosse! (fighting)
Ghen War (FPS)