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From what I recall the marketing for the saturn tried to make the knights game 'the new sonic' and it looked dumb. I also remember wanting to know what a 'panz
by spaceprison 3y ago
From what I recall the marketing for the saturn tried to make the knights game 'the new sonic' and it looked dumb.
I also remember wanting to know what a 'panzer dragoon' was but a lot of the commercials made it seem like you should already be aware and they may have just misspelled dragon.
Virtua fighter was a fine game in the arcade but none of my friends were going to buy a saturn for one game they could play at the arcade or some weird flying sonic game.
When playstation came out, battle arena toshinden felt fast and the characters looked cooler. Ridge Racer felt Way faster than Daytona the music was great and the textures blew my mind.
So even though saturn had a earlier launch the Playstation came to the party with more to offer.
- vikingerik 3y agoIt took me a while to understand what you meant - it's not "knights", the title is Nights Into Dreams. But yeah, having that as a launch title was a big mistake. The gameplay is a weird and unapproachable genre, and the characters flopped as mascots. It was actually made to show off the then-new analog 360º control stick (the "3d control pad"), but nobody cared about that. The Saturn needed Sonic and didn't have it, and everything else from there was deck chairs on the Titanic.
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- missblit 3y agoNights into dreams was my favorite game as a kid. The graphics were just mind-blowingly pretty at the time to the point where I had dreams about visiting dreamland. Though the whimsical fantasy setting of Spyro the Dragon on Playstation was up there too. And I do agree that the Saturn was missing a killer Sonic game. Sonic 3D Blast was a bit too quirky, not 3D enough, and not exclusive enough to be a system seller. Also I'm a die-hard Sega super fan so totally biased.