I live in japen. Sega saturn is most successful console to sega in japen. befor ps1 ff7 release. for 3 years nearly saturn was very solide to ps1 as rival. It was like snes vs Genesis relation in north america. As sega fan i spent happy time with my saturn.いつも見事な動画ありがとうございます。セガロード様。
@@mogo9052.. at that time arcade game market was bigger than console market in japen. Sega was no.1.but as most people know sega made idiot decisions than their competitor in console market. It causes negative images to Japanese gamers. As well as this japen society prevaded what they want to ride on winning side.I don't how to say in English. I think most close word is bendwagon effect.
Jon Ice I That happened here aswell. However, it happened after they dropped support for the 32X. It made them look so bad. At least in my eyes. They dropped the Sega CD and really the Genesis/Mega Drive aswell. However, that was eay after. I was asking why Mega Drive never took off in Japan from the start. Was support for Nintendo just too strong?
There were probably a couple of factors. In the early 90s, multi-console households were much less common than they are now, so you had to pick one. The Super Famicom was home to exclusives such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Street Fighter 2. Those three exclusives alone made choosing the Super Famicom over the MD almost a no-brainer in the Japanese market.
Sega Lord. Your rock. I donated five bucks about 5 or so days ago. I wish I could do more. I love your videos so much. I hope more people donate to your channel!!
One of the worst things Sega ever did was release the Dreamcast in Japan in 1998. That early release was terrible timing, and the Japanese gamers that had bought millions of Saturn systems and supported it strongly for years didn't want it replaced so soon.
Japan in general is very obscure. Very strange people. They have games where you slap and finger a fake butt and the girl on screen screams and stuff. Also theres a game where they pee into a bucket or something and get points for better aim. So much weird stuff
NinPen ManMaru eu acho que usou a engine do 3d Sonic Jam que por sinal a sega poderia ter esquecido e feito um alexkidd 3d para o saturn com esta engine. Provando que o saturn poderia ter feito bons jogos 3D de plataforma como Mario 64.
Wow I didn't even know they had 32-Bit versions of Whizz! Your assumption that it is based on a 16-bit game is correct because the game originally came out on Amiga and MSDOS in 1994 that I had never played cause it was only released in Europe. I only got to play the Super Nintendo version which game out for the US in 1996. I was never crazy about the game and but did enjoy it in short 10 to 15 minute spurts for all the same reasons you mentioned. I'll admit I came across a couple of your videos months ago which I enjoyed but like a dummy I didn't subscribe to you at that moment and didn't bump into your videos again until today. I'm subbed now and will bing watch others you've done that I've missed :)
I held down to just the Saturn in the 32-bit generation and didn't regret it at all! I used to play Daytona USA Championship Edition and Fighters Megamix every week, and rented games regularly. Long live the Saturn!
You ever heard of Willy Wombat? It's a super obscure Japanese exclusive puzzle platformer with English voice acting. And it was made by the company behind Bomberman.
The Sega Saturn is such a fascinating console! I only have a Dreamcast and a Genesis but I may have to keep my eye out for a Saturn. This channel truely has peaked my interest!!!
Some of my favorites are Cyberdoll and Wachenroder. I'd love if you covered Cyberdoll some day. Also, Moon Cradle always intrigued me, but I was never able to get past the language barrier =(
The language barrier on story heavy games can be a real turn off. I pushed my way through many Saturn games just to have the experience, but that was when I was a young, single man with no kids and much more free time.
I have done a small test in cyberdoll but in french, and of course the Japanese script can be a big problem for those who can’t understand ( not really a big problem for me anyway)
Great video. These are the b-level titles you look at once you’ve played all the a-level blockbusters. The quality isn’t as good but there are some gems for the true collectors. Mighty Hits and Liquid Kids are the nest of this bunch. Ninpen disappoints if you’re expecting Mario 64, and it should have been better, but it has some charms. Ninja Ja-Ja Maru Kun looks hideous but has pretty good gameplay now and then (a couple stiff drinks are required). Hissatsu could have appeared on the SNES. I’ll need to play that more to see if it’s any good. FMV shooters are always painful.
Would have been nice to have a list of obscure, but GOOD, saturn JP games... and you know ones that are actually exclusive to Japan lol Right out of the gate your talking about a PAL released game. Otherwise, I enjoyed the video.
I like Whizz, as I said to a aquainted fellow when I was in my teens I showed him the box art and said could you say no to this face? the problem with Whizz for me is that one runs out of time too much, but otherwise the idea for this game is good in it self, I like the Genre save the fact that, when you are timed this is making it hard to explore the levels and realise how to move about with the puzzle elements involved in this gaming experience. Sonic 3D does not have the aspect related to it with runing out of time, moreover it is just there in relation to giving the gamer bonus Points, Whizz would have benifited - in truth- having been put out with some saving feature also
8:25 I beg to disagree sir. We have Lode Runner on an 8bit system to compare it too. While the nes version is just fine the way it is, this is a closer version even with the graphical overhaul than the nes. Seeing the entire playing field is such a boost for the player. And 8bit consoles were capable of it, but no where near as nice looking as this.
ManMaru was a big disappointment - burned it off last month thinking I'd be getting one of the very few Mario 64 esque titles for the system... I shut it off in about 30 minutes or so :/ love some of these recommendations. Whizz looks pretty good - I thought it was above any 16 bit console from the graphics alone. Great stuff as always dude!!!
I appreciate this video. Almost everytime i click on a video about Japanese games, its always (ALWAYS) just a list of 50 JRPGs and side scrolling shooters.. At one point I was half convinced that was all the nation ever made, haha, so its not to finally see some genre variety.
I have the PAL versions of Chaos Control, Mighty Hits and Whizz. Chaos Control is indeed terrible, but I actually kind of like Whizz, especially the soundtrack. It is pretty rare too. Mighty hits isn't common either. Not bad, but I got bored quickly.
My opinion may be unpopular but I believe that the Japan only releases are overhyped. A lot of the games look like they would run on SNES and that's not a good look for a 32 bit console. The reason I'll always respect the Saturn is because it had unique ports of 'universal' games like Resident Evil as well as polygon based games like Nights and even semi-obscure ports of standard games of the era that look and feel just a bit different on the Saturn (not naming names). I think the Saturn should be remembered for its polygon and 3d games as well as SOME stand-out 2D titles like Street Fighter Alpha ports or whatever but not generic platformers that were not even Saturn exclusives like Rayman or some other depressing greyness. Looking back it feels like Saturn was caught between two distinct eras and Japan stayed 'pre-modern' longer than the west with those mediocre looking 2d games that reminded us of early 90's technology while simultaneously going toe to toe with mid 90's 3D worlds, lifelike audio and environments that have stood the test of time and become a part of history.
If the purpose of the video is to show off Japanese Saturn games that others might be interested in, why start with one you hate? You do this in a lot of your videos. I don’t get it.
Because I firmly believe that everyone should play games and form their own opinions regardless of what some random asshole on RU-vid has to say about it. My opinions are just here to be part of the entertainment experience.
Sega Lord X Fair enough. I just suppose that if it’s your channel (and your recommendations), a game you say “skip it” to seems like it’s worth skipping over in a video. But, again, your channel and your choices.
A lot of these games get requested. "Hey SLX, can you do a mini review of....". That kind of thing. So when a game fits the narrative of a subject I'm doing, I include it. My opinion varies from there.
Your videos are helping me figure out what games to download to my Satiator. Thanks! The Japanese library is so vast and the titles are lots of Japanese I can’t tell what’s what without help
I need to ask you if you ever came across Segata Sanshiro's game Shinken Yugi. It is to this day my favorite Sega Saturn game. It doesn't require Japanese knowledge to play it. I speak Japanese and I find the voice overs hilarious. As well as the references to Segata's commercials. It is a must have for every Sega Saturn fan.
, I however look at the ninja pinguin game because the pace is good for me as is the case here when there are not too many enemies around to distact concentration from getting passed the obstacles. As a matter of fact I will Contact the owner of gameshop in South of Stockholm and as the dude that I am very willing to buy this game if they can provide the game not caring if it will take long to wait for it to arrive from Japan. some thing in it just made me drawn to in a magnetic way, as did the other ninja game but since the thing with standing there with the difficulty to follow camera means I will not focus on it as priority number one, I do own Mighty Hits since Before but I do not remeber that you actually covered it.
I just looked up a trailer for the show Hissatsu and it looks freakin awesome. It's a samurai era soap opera where every episode they kill an evil person, how cool is that??
Very disappointing to hear that Chaos Control isn’t good. I remember really enjoying the demo version on PC as a kid, and always being curious about the rest of the game.
So, question from a filthy gen z, how did importing work during the mid 90s? Sure the internet was around, but was it advanced to the point you could shop online at all, let alone for Japanese games to be shipped to the other side of the planet? Or did you have to call up someone who you knew who could set up an import through their channels or something? Also "exposed to" is the perfect way to describe Whizz, especially with that name, lol
It was all phone orders from ads in the back in gaming magazines before the internet. Most import places were in bigger cities like NY and SF, so you had to order it over the phone and pay for it when it arrived(COD). It was an imperfect system that often left you with games that absolutely sucked. No returns.
In the opening you show a side scrolling three kingdom/dynasty warriors fighting game that you show for the sega saturn but also remember this for the sega dreamcast as well! What is the name of this japanese import? I had a iso copy for dreamcast but need to know the japanese name and if it was released in the usa! If you have done a video on this game please let me know!
Tenchi wo Kurau II: Sekiheki no Tatakai for the Japanese Saturn. segaretro.org/Tenchi_wo_Kurau_II:_Sekiheki_no_Tatakai It was a Capcom arcade game released for the Japanese Saturn and Playstation. It was known as Warriors of Fate in the US arcades. There is no Dreamcast port beyond emulation.
My friend got me a copy of Liquid Kids for $75 off Ebay from a seller in France, this was several years ago though, and no way in hell will it ever show up that cheap again (that same friend got me Elevator Action Returns for Saturn for $20 after I found one for that cheap, he was helping me to start my Saturn collection off on the right foot at the time. This, Bubble Symphony, and EAR were my Taito starts, Gradius, Salamander, and the Parodius titles, my Konami starts). It is by far THE best game on the Saturn IMO, the 2D visuals are crisp and the sound is crystal clear. The colors really are vibrant and jump off the screen at you, more so than the versions of all 3 games on Taito Legends/Memories (Memories only for PS2 as Legends had no Bubble Symphony), which despite having all 3 games in 1 wonderful collection, all have screen filters on them, but I am thankful to have all Japanese and US volumes for Taito stuff.
Awesome video! I just picked up a few Japanese Saturn games a few weeks back. 3 Gundam games (the Side Story cockpit sim game and the 2 sidescrolling beatem ups for 0079 and Zeta Gundam) and Grandia. Was pleasantly surprised that the Gundam games had English menus which made them totally playable. Grandia, however, was all in Japanese and I couldn't follow anything. 3 out of 4 isn't bad I guess haha
Have you played the Dreamcast one? If so, what did you think of it? I try to fire it up every so often but it just relentlessly beats me into a pulp everytime lol
There is a pretty good guide out there for Grandia. I wish could remember the link right now, but it’s a complete typed translation. Helps quite a bit! Takes some patience, but it’s worth it IMHO. It’s 88 pages double sided if I remember right. Just google it. It’s not hard to find and the page has other guides as well.
I really like Chaos Control on CD-i (especially with the impressive PeaceKeeper gun)... sadly its very short and I reached the (boring) final boss in something like 20-25 minutes.
The first game you covered was a shovelware title? The Saturn was popular in Japan, so unsuprisingly, the Japanese Saturn became the go to console for developers to make utter shit games for, many of them never made it outside of Japan, thank God for that. WHIZZ looked like a carbon copy of Sonic 3D Blast, just minus all the good bits. I am going to get Doom on the Sega Saturn to see if it is criminally underrated. I never had a Sega Saturn back in the day, although I did see one in person while I was at a babysitter's house years ago. The games I got for mine are Virtua Fighter 2, Ultamate Mortal Kombat 3, Cyber Speedway, Off world Interceptor Extreme by Crystal Dynamics, Battle Arena Toshinden URA, and Panzer Dragoon.
liquid kids was such an amazing experience when I first did the game. It also has a cheat code where you can actually change the entire game to english. It will even have the english title and all that stuff. It is quite great stuff~
Darth Throttle (or Quarantine as I know it) was one of those games I can still remember from those bootleg PC Game compilation CD-ROMS in the late 90's. It felt like a step up for Carmageddon back in the day.
THAT MIGHTY HITS GAME IS SO.... good, but I am having a hard time finding a mouse at a what you call it afforable price, but was so intrigued when I saw it on RU-vid, and to me the first round with it was one of the best experience I have had in gaming in all my Life with conseration that I have tried different games and systems maybe using a mouse will be hard when one i chilling on the sofa but I want the black netlike mouse to go with it, but I cannot seem to find a multitap or mouse pad at a fair price so I have not dwelled on getting them for now. In my Dreams I would like to have that kind of Equipment indeed but cannot get them just now FROM 1-8 players, and I have three(3) controller pads as it is now
Man, oh man, I feel your pain with "Steeldom", lol. That's why I don't get fighting games that are just straight ports of arcade games - like Hamster's SNK Arcade Classics Archives - anymore. When the only mode available is Arcade Mode and the A.I. is legit looking to just destroy you before you can even learn the controls and techniques (or worse, if there's no practice mode and special move menu to even _look up_ the controls and techniques at all), it's just no fun. It definitely looks kinda neat, and reminds me of "Robo Pit 2" for the Playstation more than "Virtual On" thanks to the slower pace and lack of lock-on camera, but holy heck that looks brutal. Oh and "Death Throttle" is a way cooler name than "Quarantine", imo. I never knew it had a different name, or released in Japan at all. This list was just loaded with cool stuff - thanks for showing it all off!
Bulk Slash, Yu Yu Hakusho, Policenauts, Elan Doree, Waku Waku 7, Battle Garegga, Shining Wisdom are a few obscure ones I came across back in the day. There are so many, especially during my time in Asia, I just cant remember all the names.
I saw the note you made about Saturn Mouse and I would want one for good games like Myst, Discworld, and Discworld 2. I would like if the added Equipment of a Mouse as you speak of this episode calls even more for why I have reason to invest in it for me, but man are those Mouse thingies working, other than that, tell me more about the bird ninja it looked perfect for me and I looks like a exclusive game and it reminded me of the Sonic World segment in Sonic Jam. I never liked Mario 64 because I can not handle those sticks on the pads,
You guys are crazy with your Saturns. :-) ...... HEY have you seen those MIDI board hack things for the Genesis O.G. hardware , yes , @ S.L.X. ???? "genmdm" !!!!!!! I have the Genesis with the volume slider, and, I REALLY could use a "genmdm" for my Studio Lab parts !!!!!! It turns it into a piano. CAN YOU get us 2 of them, and, send me one? :-D .... ~ Cheers , ~ "the" Rev
I’m pretty sure the chaos control gun sound is just ripped straight from the gun sounds from home alone when Kevin plays ‘angels with filthy souls’ to trick the Pizza guy.
Yeah, I meant that as an insult. They could have at least tried to take advantage of the extra power of the Saturn with new effects, colors and redrawn assets. Even as a port it didn't need to be so similar.
Starts a video on obscure Japanese Saturn games with a fairly well known British game. Ha, ha! I like Whizz, it's a cool game. Had no idea The Newzealand Story got a sequel, thanks for that.
awesome compilation I played a few of late games years later thanks to saturntorrents in the 2000s..shh! The last rare import game I've played was Planet Joker which was a below average shoot'em up. the only other 2 games I don't see many people review (and I still have yet to play..)- Terra Cresta 3D and G-Vector.
Because the Saturn lasted in Japan years after the US and Europe markets disappeared, there were many games released people never heard anything about. Even I missed a bunch of em.
I missed 100 percent of Japanese games until just a few years ago...nevertheless the Saturn was still one of my favorite systems during its lifetime. That's either hardcore or delusional.
The text heavy part of many Japanese games can be boring, even if you understand the language. I think that's because they try to artificially extend a game's time that way and can often be too much exposition. Some manga suffer from the same issue. That doesn't mean all text-heavy games are like that, but that many of the Japanese ones are in my experience.
I don't doubt it. The Japanese games of the 90's were far more story intensive than anything that western devs were working on. We only saw tidbits of it with the RPG's that would see translations, but there were mixed genre games regularly released in Japan with hours upon hours of reading and exposition.
when I was in 1-3 in school or sometime around that we used to play Jetpack on the MS-DOS engneered computers, we put it on floppy discs and brought games like that home from school in this way, and it has a design which in turn today reminds me of what I see in Load Runner. It seems like an easy game to handle and play bit by bit, this leads to the matter which is that I would like to purchase this game, now that I have a Game Shark and CD PLUS cartridge, it really looks like a totally perfect game for what I look for when I go into game collecting with emphasis och games that do not demand to much intense playing but till keeps the interest going, like those game Pengo, pueinguin Land, Flicky and the like which are things I would like to add to my Collection, after which I can play it bit by bit time and time again. I would have requeted it as an import from the Shop were I have shopped and swapped many titles: but I am now saving up currency to make it happen as such for me to get this Sony Hi-Fi Micro System to play Compact Disc records as I am tired of having Always to listen to Equipment that only has built in speakers.
