Panzer Dragoon

I mean, you watch Attack on the Titans and everyone is called Heinvasion, Siegfried or whatever.

Panzer Dragoon.

Mm-hmm.

Panzer Dragoon, yeah.

But, uh, the, uh [laughs] but yeah, but also you watch, uh, I recommend you guys watch, anyone watch who hears this watches this incredible triptych of, uh, short animated films, uh, produced by Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of Akira.

Oh, Memories.

It's probably not good, I imagine.

I don't know.

I thought of both Sonic Jam and Sonic R, which had really good reflective water effects on, on the Saturn.

Uh, but then I thought about the Saturn a bit more and I thought, "No, I'm just gonna go for my, uh, extra honorable mention for Panzer Dragoon," 'cause I remember that first level, I believe it was-

Mm-hmm

... on the water looking spectacular at the time.

They're almost...

It reminds me almost of like Panzer Dragoon, where there are these like... they're organic like creatures that are floating through the sky like giant like flying whale looking things almost yeah and the other enemies i thought just the variety of enemies was was really cool uh i liked it was made it did make it easier because when you shot it kind of points a like a laser on either side to kind of show you where you're shooting And that made it easier for my dodgy aim on this.

And I was enjoying it.

I liked that one quite a bit.

Welcome to a brand new episode of TVGP's Game Club.

This time we're checking out 1995's Panzer Dragoon, although we are playing the remake because the original isn't really available.

I'm here with Boston playing this on the PlayStation 5, joined as always by Moonpear.

Howdy, Xbox Series X for me.

Developed by Sega's Team Andromeda.

This has a really fascinating history.

Team Andromeda, Panzer Dragoon was their last game.

Staff from this studio joined the absolutely legendary Smile Bit, which is one of Sega's internal studios.

Um, what are you gonna have a pick out of the boot then? You know

Um, I'm gonna pick, 'cause I, at this time I'd be excited for the Saturn and all it could bring, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna grab myself a copy of Panzer Dragoon.

Mm.

Um, which Was a launch title here for us in the UK.

Um, it looked fantastic.

It still does to this day.

I do believe this has, um, had a semi-remake and had sequels, and even sequels onto the original Xbox as well in Panzer Dragoon also from memory.

And obviously the spinoff, um, Panzer Dragoon Saga, which was an RPG.

Um, and then they did, uh, Shenmue Outrun, Shinobi 3, Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage 2, 3, um, They did some other ones.

They did Panzer Dragoon.

They did Police Nauts, which isn't a Sega game, but that's a very cool soundtrack.

Metal Slug, because I think I brought the Metal Slug one to the James' Metal Slug pod to show you guys.

And yeah, I apparently there's going to be quite a few of those in the game, too, which I'm looking forward to one.

One thing with the whole Rayman, I guess, Origins or Legends style of game is that they get to play with different style of games and do callbacks to, like, you mentioned Galaga, or, like, you're flying through, like, Panzer Dragoon style of a level.

Or you're going through, like, automated... like you're just going to sticking with a song or test out yours how fast you can do a level um like there's so many different like styles of of gameplay with this platformer and that's always been the fun point with with rayman and and and i don't know if you could take off the checkpoints if you want to make it a little more difficult for yourself or add more add more to a challenge maybe get like a higher ranking i don't know that's an option i did not this is just literally something i'm thinking right now but i i am very appreciative for the checkpoints there's times i'm like i'm like okay thank god i reached this part right here because the redo all that that was tough that was really tough especially it's not forgiving yeah especially because right at

the very beginning when we were dropped in um we didn't have like essentially the tutorial um so they kind of dropped us in a little bit later so it took me a bit to be able to figure out the controls and what i was supposed to be doing but Yeah, I was very appreciative of those of those checkpoints, too.