GeekCritique

Been on a big, BIG Saturn kick the past month or so. I got one for Christmas '97 (I was a Sonic kid, waiting for Sonic games), but US retailers pretty well stopped stocking it almost immediately after that point, so I only had five or so games as a kid!

Panzer Dragoon definitely, definitely shows its age. It was one of the first 3D console games of its era, and the only US Saturn launch game that wasn't based on an arcade machine. But once I got used to that and put myself in the mindset of a brand-new Saturn owner in 1995, man was it impressive for its time. It reaches for a sense of scale that wasn't like anything else, and it's pretty easy for me to appreciate it on that level.

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