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    Retro|Spective 182: The Sega Saturn Obscure Archives Volume 02

    The second part of our tour through the lesser known or experienced corners of the Saturns library is here, this time offering up another six titles to reflect on or fire up your interest.


    Blast Wind
    1997 - Technosoft
    As is clear, the system brought a steady stream of shooters for fans of the genre if you were living in Japan or able to run its regions games (this did used to be NTSC-UK after all!), this shooter came from the same studio as Thunder Force and is a very brief run time title.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOeChvbzj30


    Bulk Slash
    1997 - CAProduction

    A third person mech battler, the game was a well received title with some parallels to Sega's own Virtua On series but remained Japan only just like so many others.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_AwfBrDUc


    D-Xhird
    1997 - Takara/Nex

    This 3D fighter was a weapon based title from the makers of Battle Arena Toshinden and largely inspired by the success that series was enjoying at the time.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7pQyqu3xE4


    Deep Fear
    1998 - Sega AM7

    Probably one of the most recognisable names on the list thanks to it being a late English language release, the game none the less passed by unnoticed to most thanks to that late release (the very last European release of them all) and it being a low profile title compared to some of the systems other late life releases. The survival horror game remains land locked to the Saturn to this day.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSlkwV_F-D4


    Fist
    1997 - Genki
    A sequel to Pretty Fighter X, this fighter was so low key that not much information exists online for the game that has an early Virtua Fighter appearance to its visuals.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tpptp-mBmk


    G Vector
    1997 - Soft Office

    Bringing us full circle back to that stream of shooters, G Vector is a 3D shooter with a fast pace and sprinkling of Starfox/Afterburner to it.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbKHPQfmPU0



    Have you ever played any of this second batch of the Saturns lesser known titles?

    #2
    Glad I didn't know about Bulk Slash at the time, because I would've been FURIOUS about that not getting a western release

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      #3
      I don't know anyone who played Deep Fear. Always liked the look of it.

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        #4
        The only one I own out of these is a PAL copy of Deep Fear which I paid about £40 for about 10 years or so ago. The price of it now boggles the mind.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Atticus View Post
          I don't know anyone who played Deep Fear. Always liked the look of it.
          Deep fear was pretty good. Awsome soundtrack but laughably bad English voice acting.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Yakumo View Post
            Awsome soundtrack but laughably bad English voice acting.
            Resi inspired through-and-through

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              #7
              I loved deep fear back in the day, but I think it would look mighty crusty now. I have a mint Jpn version and a burn of the insanely priced uk version

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                #8
                The OST in blastwind is awesome - shame it’s mixed horribly, in that the sfx dominate. Was there a patched fan edition correcting this or was that hyper dual? (Which also suffers the same fate)

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