

A couple of more options would have made for a more diverse experience and satisfying kills.

The latter will comprise a significant chunk of your foes, blasting bombs, bullets, rockets, and whatnot at you.Īs a shooter, Panzer Dragoon is quite disappointing when it comes to attack types.

Panzer Dragoon: Remake is a complete remake of the original title, with beautifully-rendered landscapes varying from lush green vegetation to deserted lands filled with cybernetic life. The latter entrusts to our hero to stop the other dragon from reaching a mysterious tower and that the blue dragon will lead the way, and off you go on your newly-found purpose! Our protagonist brave nomad is then approached by the blue armored dragon’s rider who is apparently injured. Panzer Dragoon plays as the opening scene, full of shooting in expansive-looking environments. This action-packed sequence all happens in the opening cutscene and sets the trend for the game: shoot everything that moves. The latter is then itself found under a pile of rubble as two armored dragons and their riders swoop in, chasing each other.

The bravest one among them decides to explore it and is shortly attacked by a metallic-alien thing. two-legged creatures are stopped short in their tracks by a spaceship of sorts that crashes nearby. Without a leaderboard or any means of memorializing your best runs, there’s little reason to go back more than once or twice.It all begins when a group of nomads riding… *checks notes* … ehhh. Then again, once you do finish it, there isn’t much more to do except replay it on hard mode, which is more taxing but not necessarily more satisfying. The campaign is short – I finished my first run on normal difficulty in about 70 minutes – but that doesn’t take the sting out of getting to the last level and losing all your progress. If you don’t, it’s game over and you’re back to the beginning. There’s no mid-level checkpointing, but if you have a credit you can restart the level you died on. You can earn extra lives or “credits” at the end of each level, depending on your performance specifically, your accuracy, how many enemies you shot down, and how many got away. That’s because even though Panzer Dragoon was made for the Sega Saturn it’s built like an arcade game: you have two shots to fly and shoot your way through its seven levels. “But yes, I did say it’s less than two hours long.
