Hey Sega Lord now that the Game is coming to PS4 how about talk about to me great serie of Sakura taisen Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast versión that i play with a printed script from gamefaqs
Since Dragon Force 2 now has an English patch, you could now actually be the 1st person on TH-cam to review it! Since I have my Saturn chipped, I've been wondering if I should skip straight to DF2 over DF1?
SLX, I have a lot of 2-D fighting games for Saturn and Dreamcast. I use the RAD2X for Saturn(smoothing off) and the GEKKO HDMI box for Dreamcast. I think the 2-D fighters look much better on Saturn. They look more pixelated on Dreamcast.
@@gundamsdm I dunno, I bought Dragon Force 2 because I loved the original so much, but it was a different play mechanic, music was different and of course I couldn't understand a lot of the storyline. Is is possible to download the patch and put it on a disc iso to play? I might breakout my Saturn and play it again.
Me too. When Media Play went out of business I got Iron Storm and Dragon Force out of the clearance bin for $20 total. Dragon Force is without a doubt my favorite game of all time.
Remember when Working Designs used to sell some games on their site? I remember they sold Magic Knight for 55 bucks there and i felt it was so expensive haha. I bought it and i dont regret it. That game goes for $800-1000 on ebay… i really hate this resell culture we live in. It has gotten exponentially worse after 2020.
The Saturn was a underrated console. I even underrated it back in the day, because i bought a Saturn back in the day and my friend loan me a bunch of Saturn games and most them i did not like. Then i sold my Saturn to my friend older brother months later which i regretted because X-men Vs Street Fighter came out shortly after. Then in the mid 2000`s i bought a Saturn again with 5 games on Ebay for 50 dollars which included X-men Vs Street Fighter and its sequel and Night Warriors. And i started to discover that Saturn had a lot of hidden gems by watching youtube vids of Saturn games. Now i have at least 35 Saturn games and plan to get more. This is by far the best Sega channel on YT.
I love my Saturn too. I love to play Shining Wisdom. Dragon Force is great , I just need more memory to save files. Magic Knight , I really enjoyed and thought the graphics were pretty nice.
@@SomeOrangeCat So true. So many Playstation people and media say that the playstation version of X-Men Vs. Street Fighter is much better then the Saturn version. I prefer Saturn version , maybe it's because Saturn controller is better for those types of games. I still love my Saturn.
Great video. Dragon Force... I made it my mission to find and recruit as many secret characters as I could, in each scenario. Took me 20 years to find the secret dimension in Shining Wisdom. There are several secret scenes to be found in Albert. Got all the Rainbow Amulets in Rayearth. Enjoyed 60 FPS in OutRun. Great, great games!
I loved Working Designs from the day I played through Lunar on its release. All the pop culture references and jokes were great. This was a time when video games had nothing to do with mainstream culture (at least till PS1). Having mainstream references in a Sega CD game made it sooo cool. My Working Designs collection had a separate section in my collection that I treasured. I was lucky to get the games used for less than retail before they became collector status. I was at 100% on Sega and about 90% on sony when a flood took it all away. It is absolutely the most missed part of my collection that I lost, (which included a full Saturn and DC fighter/shooter collection). Who remembers the 1st time they read the back of the manual in a WD game? Thank you Victor for all you did.
Oh man, can you do a video on Working Design games for the Sega CD. Those were some real bangers. I mean, I have yet to meet someone who has played Lunar 1 and 2 and doesn't at least remember them fondly. Working Design's translation team was top-notch and injected quite a bit of humor into games. I still find myself chuckling to dialogue from Nall in Lunar 1 or just everyone in Lunar 2 to this day. It's fantastic.
Dragon Force just is that good. I have, like, 90% of what Working Desgns put out, including their Spaz label stuff. They were just about the only outfit putting out nice limited editions, foil-embossed full color manuals, translation notes, etc. You just knew that you were getting something slick whenever you picked up one of their games.
Bless you... I asked for a Working Designs tribute and you delivered. I hate to admit that I wasn't aware of a couple titles from the saturn, but now I know. Thumbs up. Oh, by the way, I do know that it was Working Designs adherence to putting out a quality product that ultimately was their undoing. They refused to put out a title that did not meet their standards and it ultimately shut them down ... but thank god they had those standards. It would be good if others had those standards. Another thing... I do like the translations to be as close as possible, but I understand that certain things which would fly in Japan doesn't work here - and vice versa. You look at all the pop references and inside jokes on popful mail as compared to panic CD.... and you can see.
For anyone that doesn't know, Magic Knight Rayearth is one of those few games for the saturn where the save file is compatible with both regions. if you've been playing the game in japanese and want to pick up from where you left off on the english version the game will read the file and also works the other way with it.
Back when I started collecting PC Engine games, I won some on eBay that were mailed from Victor Ireland from Redding, CA where Working Designs was based.
My Saturn has been collecting dust for two years now. But don't get me wrong, it's connected and ready to fire up at any time. I just didn't have the time to play it! I really miss playing this beautiful machine!
About the critique regarding WD, it wasn't just the liberties taken with the translations, it was also pretty major gameplay changes. The changes made to Popful Mail, artificially made the game more difficult by increasing the stats of the enemies while decreasing your own. I agree that if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have gotten English translations of many Japanese games at all, including Dragon Force which is one of the Saturn's best games. But the critiques are valid, and so are the romhacks that reverse the WD changes.
iron storm what a blast from the past lol. i remember taking turns with friends trying to win a battle and thinking it would only take like 20-30 more minutes and it taking hours. such a fun game lol
Absolutely gutted that Working Designs didn't release Albert Odyssey and Magic Knight Rayearth over here in the UK too, they both look like the kind of games that I absolutely love to play.
Great video, thanks! I was a very big fan of Working Designs. Living in Europe it wasn't easy to get my hands on Saturn games but luckily i found a gamestore of which the owner was a big Saturn fan and he imported almost everything from the US and Japan. It was here that i found Shining Wisdom and i fell in love with Working designs because of this game. Later on i would discover the awesome Dragon Force and the funny Albert Odyssey. I waited years for Magic Knight Rayearth and it was a fantastic game which i still rank pretty high on my top 10 list of videogames. The boxart of Working designs games were always something special.
I'm so glad they decided to translate Magic Knight Rayearth. I'm in the middle of that game now and found it about a year ago. I just had to try it because I really enjoyed the anime as a teenager and it's a very good game too. I just should play it more often. Great video!
I know, two year-late reply, but I finished the game today and had a blast with it, at the end of July I finished watching the anime and got curious about the Saturn game, so I decided to play it, did not regret that decision at all!
@@marcellosilva9286 thanks for the reply anyway. Yeah, I got stuck in the game at some point, and have since lost the whole game! I feel bad for not being able to finish it, since I really liked it By the way, they also made a SNES game of Magic Knight Rayearth but I don't think it was released outside of Japan. So I used to play it using an emulator and a english patch as a teenager. But I got stuck in that one too. At the black woman ( I forgot her name) boss battle. It was a decent RPG
@@Jussi.Ihander I heard about the SNES JRPG, there was an addendum released for the 1999 fan translation which contained bugfixes and other things, came out September 1st, which is pretty nuts. Also, the dark-skinned girl is Caldina, I like her a lot. In fact, the characters in Rayearth are so likeable and charismatic, it's one of the main reasons I still keep thinking about it.
I wish working design still existed. They made some amazing games for turbo and Sega .... cosmic fantasy 2 and lunar eternal blue is still some of my favorite games.
Finally someone who praises Dragon force here in YT. One of the best games of all time for me, way ahead of it´s time. Still have my copy i got for birthday in 97.
I love when TH-cam just randomly recommends your videos. Haven't watched this one in a while. Still just as good! I'm actually in the middle of a Dragon Force playthrough now.
I missed out on the Saturn, and I loved Working Designs. I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd love to see rereleases of these, but if we couldn't even get any of the WD games for the Sega Mini 2, chances are slim to none.
Been playing Dragon Force on and off for a few months now, put maybe 10 hours into it so far, ALWAYS wanted to play it and finally got the chance to, just conquered the further most South-West castles and now control the entire south west area of the map. SUCH a good game. you gonna do a Working Design of games from other systems like Sega CD?
I bought Dragon Force around when it came out from a high school classmate of mine's brother complete and in great condition for $40. I'd say that was a pretty solid purchase.
It was a $70 games back then at launched day. It's a must own game because each character has a unique story. You have to beat the game to unlock the last character .
I have played all of these games and still own most of them. Many of them were some of the best games on the Saturn (Albert Odyssey, Iron Storm, and Magic Knight Rayearth), and one of which is one of the best games of all time for me (Dragon Force). We all have different opinions, but I don't think you gave Albert Odyssey as much credit as it deserves. It's old school but is just beautiful and so well made, and it has one of the best soundtracks there is.
ReaverPrime I definitely favor Lunar series, but I always wanted to play Rayearth and Albert Odyssey. Going to build a game station to run it via emu soon.
I remember borrowing Magic Knight Rayearth from an uncle, and thinking, from seeing the boxart, it was childish. It was a pretty good RPG, however. Being a fan of the Shining Force games on the Genesis, Wisdom kinda fell flat in comparison. Especially with SF3 coming out later on the Saturn. I was able to buy Dragon Force six years ago on the cheap on a market, and still play it now and then. Great game play and visuals, it's still a favorite.
Man, I really need to get into Dragon Force. It's a game I've always wanted to try, and I managed to find a disc only copy a few years back. I still haven't given a fair go. You've reinforced the need to do so, though. Thanks, man.
I don't mind them taking liberties with the translations. After all, if you're trying to sell a game to an English-speaking market that mostly isn't into Japanese culture, you have to account for the fact that your consumers aren't going to catch or enjoy a lot of references and allusions you'd get from a strict translation. The problems came when they also changed the game behavior, such as making Silhouette Mirage a lot harder and more grindy.
Since you pointed out the fact that Iron Storm, Albert Odyssey and Magic Knight Rayearth were never released in Europe, here are some points about the European releases of the other games to complement your info. Yeah, Dragon Force and Shining Wisdom were actually released in Europe. In the case of Dragon Force, the European version carries out the same Working Design localization of the North American version, which was licensed to Sega Europe to publish it themselves (this is a Sega game after all). However, in the case of Shining Wisdom, the European version features a totally different localization done by Sega Europe itself. This is a very similar situation to what had happened to Ragnacenty/Crusader of Centy/Soleil on the Mega Drive, which had a North American localization done by Atlus and a totally different European localization (not just in English in this case, but also in German, French and Spanish) performed by Sega Europe and its various European offices. Obviously, the Sega Ages compilation had nothing to do with Working Designs in Europe. It was released by Sega Europe quite some time before the North American release in fact, so in this case Working Designs just licensed the same combined European release for North America.
SoA was kind of braindead when it came to localizing Japanese games to the Saturn. American Saturn fans were grateful to Working Designs and were sad to hear they had a falling out with Sega and would stop producing for Sega....although they ended up making the last US Saturn release anyway. On a what if, I can't help but wonder if they would have picked up Dragon Force 2 if Sega didn't piss them off.
I had at one time 4 of those games. Shining Wisdom, Dragonforce, Albert and Rayearth. Yeah love all 4 Dragonforce was so good I imported the sequel. Research was worth the wait and the twist at end was so awesome.
It is such a bummer that this company is no longer around. I own a quite a few of their games across Turbo Duo, Saturn, and PlayStation. The work they did was amazing as I know we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to experience most of the games they localized and published over the years they were around. They chose some really good games. They had an excellent eye for u inquest and fun gaming experiences.
I was quite hooked on Dragon Force back in the day; would play for hours on end, the gameplay was so addictive. One of the best games on the system IMO. I think Magic Knight Rayearth was dissed by publications because it wasn't some flashy title that showed off the system's power. Suppose they expected otherwise for the console's swansong
Yeah, Edge/Next Generation always gave bad reviews to 32 bit that weren't in 3d...including Castlevania SOTN. I'm glad that rag NG is no longer around and it's really funny that gamers today prefer 2d pixelated games that are actually fun to play.
@@MistaMaddog247 Spot on. The circle is complete, lol. You know, that's probably where I remember reading that, too; I did have a Next Generation subscription at the time.
So very glad to see you cover Working Designs! Loved everything about what they did for gaming, especially the amazing packaging and funny localization. Really miss this in today's gaming scene...
Working Designs used to change the games a lot and with this put some nasty bugs and glitchs. Here i never be able to finish Albert Odissey cause the battle lock bug even mentioned in the last page of the manual...sometimes in the game when the battle comes it loads all stuff but "forget" the menu and the game locks with the only option to reset the console and try again...
Part of the reason I went with the Saturn before the PSX was the upcoming Lunar remakes. I was heartbroken when Sega pissed off Working Designs, causing them to announce that Lunar 1 and 2 would be coming to the PSX exclusively. I snagged Dragon Force and Shining Wisdom for $30 each, used but in great condition, at Babbage's back in late 97. Shining Wisdom isn't that great, but Dragon Force is one of my favorite games of all time. Magic Knight Rayearth I bought in summer 2000 off ebay for a whopping $45. There were HUNDREDS of listings for the game, all brand new, sealed. I'm sure it was due to overstock. I wish I had bought a couple extra copies.
As an aside, I gotta say getting Shining the Holy Ark and Albert Odyssey back-to-back in summer '97 was heaven for an RPG gamer. That was the last era of a pre-FFVII world, where RPGs were not completely rare but were still uncommon.
I've seen and heard of Dragon Force several times, I've heard often that it's one of the best. However I never actually considered it, you've finally sold me on it I assumed it was a complicated time sink like Ogre battle/ FF tactics ogre. Thank you for sharing information about Sega sytems like this, it's not often I can find good recommendations on TH-cam that aren't all the well known games. These videos have been getting progressively more professional, and well edited over the years and I'm glad to see this becoming successful.
Bought it day one when it came out because I was the guy that did whatever Diehard Gamefan told me, but I was a young teenager who totally never followed through on Strategy and RPG games (and I sucked at them too). I remember the over the top battles with a million sprites being an eye catcher but tbh, I don’t recall the game itself being much of an improvement of the genre. Take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Thanks for the info, I'll at least look into it further if I do eventually buy it, I get burned out on more indepth games in the genre so if it's simpler or not that deep or challenging I might be able to enjoy it.
I bought Magic Knight Rayearth when it first came out in late 1998 when I worked at then Software Etc now Gamestop. Sold it on eBay for a lot of money in 2006, but I regretted it later on.
My friends who are very casual gamers really enjoyed playing Iron Storm all weekend long back in the day. It is a solid title that does not take long to get the grips of
I really like the content on this channel. It’s competent yet family friendly. I couldn’t afford to have a sega Saturn or Dreamcast but this channel has helped me experience a taste of what I’ve missed. Well done
Hi Sega Lord X. I'm a huge fan. 👍 I just saw the title of this video and had to watch it immediately. I wondered if you would mention Iron Storm, and it was the very first one. It was one of my favorite SS games. It was fantastic. I'll always have fond memories of Working Designs and the love they showed with every game they released. It was a sad day when they stopped publishing games for Sega hardware. Much worst when they closed shop. Working Designs was a gem in gaming industry.
Thank you so much for this video, I never knew that about Working Designs, like many, I thought they had developed the games 🎮, but they helped to localize them, I can't imagine a world without Popful Mail and Lunar, thats what I grew up with, so thank you, I appreciate that company way more now thanks to you.
Surprised you didn't mention this. One of the reasons WD is generally disliked is because they had a habit of cranking the difficulty up on games to the point where they're often unenjoyable. It wouldn't shock me to learn this is why Albert Odyssey has such a high random encounter rate. One example I can speak to is Alundra. While not the best game ever made, I got fed up half way through after feeling like I was attacking enemies with a broom. Turns out WD cranked up the difficulty by making enemies much harder to kill. I can handle the sophomoric humor, but difficulty cranks are ridiculous. You've even taken issue with them with games like Streets of Rage 3. Others often complain how the difficulty was cranked through the roof of Ninja Gaiden 3. Some games have fan patches to fix the difficulty changes called "Un-Worked Designs"
Holy crap did I ever spend hundreds of hours into Iron Storm!!! I beat the game as Germany and evolved my units to wonder weapon status. Go-229 stealth fighter bombers, the invincible Maus tank, panzer grenadier units armed with panzerfausts and stg-44's. I one day noticed foo fighters in the game as well. Yes...UFO's lol. During some battles you would see one hanging in the sky above the battlefield. I curiously went through the sound test on Iron storm to hear UFO and laser sounds. Somehow UFO's fight or maybe become units in the game. Its known the Germans worked and researched saucer designs before and during the war. Still intersting to find in the game.
At the end, I bought Magic Knight Rayearth for $20 @Toyrus. I was a fan of the anime series. I saw Working Design logo which mean that it is a quality good game and plus the fact of my favorite anime, I got to buy it at a cheap price. I still got it to this day. My favorite is the Dragon Force. It is by far the best SRPG game to date.
i have played dragon force more than any game i have ever played. would have loved to see an official English release of 2, it supposedly fixes some of the flaws. always remember how they reversed the cheering and booing on the search events. archers are useless, mages must be micromanaged, so many retreats, hell, in your clip seeing the dragonman text box got me on edge cause here comes the combo.
You know, Magic Knight Rayearth is actually based on a Japanese manga by acclaimed all female art group CLAMP, I'm actually a big fan of their work, though Magic Knight Rayearth isn't my top favorite of their stories, I'm more into Cardcaptor Sakura, but this series is still really good, and still a great showcase of their fantastic artwork. A little side trivia they tend to put older characters from their past work into later stories of theirs, one of the characters in Magic Knight Rayearth reappears in Reservoir Chronicles Tsubasa.
Great video. Just found this because I was trying to figure out why Magic Knight Rayearth goes for so much now...I didnt know it was the last ever released Saturn game to be released in the US. I was heavy into the Japanese Saturn Games, with exception of the Working Design games. Saturn was an under appreciated system due mostly because some of the great games that came out were only released in Japan. My favorite game is also Dragon Force. I was kind of upset when I learned that they had variants on the disc and memory card sticker. You wouldn't know that unless you had seen a bunch of them. Love seeing videos about the Sega Saturn.
Thanks for posting this x, when i owned a sega saturn a long time ago, i didnt get to play all of working designs games. Pretty soon im picking up an odroid xu4 with over 180,000 games on it, luckily im getting the entire sega saturn, and dreamcast game library's with this purchase. The reality is it would cost me thousands to get a saturn, upgrade to hdmi, and buy physical copies of these games. At long last i ll finally have the entire saturn library, never got to play dragon force btw. God knows i will be spending LOTS of time with that one
Working Designs was my favorite company back then and I had Dragon Force as well. And unlike a lot of people I think their translations were okay and didn’t alter the spirit of the game much. What I didn’t like is how they intentionally made games more difficult for the US market. Popful Mail for Sega CD is a good example of this. They made items cost more money, gave the player less health, and made the enemies stronger. I don’t know why Working Designs felt it necessary to alter the gameplay of many games to increase difficulty. There are some fan-made patches that remove these difficulty changes while keeping the translation. It is “Unworked Designs” I believe.
the increased difficulty was done to deal with people beating the games too quickly. Other games had this done for the U.S release too, not just Working Designs. Some examples are Dino City, Contra Hard Corps, Seventh Saga, Streets of Rage 3, and Castlevania Bloodlines.
Definitely agree with you on the translations. Yes I would like more faithful translations, but there's no way I can hate on a company that was willing to take a risk on products no one else would even consider. Accurate or not, I'm just glad we got to experience stuff like this at all. Robotech is another good example of the same concept. The modern era of translations has spoiled us.
I have almost every Working Designs game. Victor Ireland was really ahead of the times. They were releasing obscure RPGs long before Atlus and others got popular over here. I'm still supporting him and his new company Gajinworks. Bought the special Summon Night 6 box set from their site. Goes for quite a bit now. Too bad Bernie Stolar cockblocked them from releasing Lunar for the Saturn. Shining Wisdom actually fits into the other Shining games coming right before Shining the Holy Ark. Played Iron Storm a lot especially with a code that lets you play co op. Panzer Dragoon Saga is my favorite Saturn game but Dragon Force is great.
Hey Sega Lord X! I'm super impressed how you manage to pump out new videos at that high rate and quality. How many people have you hired to edit the videos? LOL OFFICIAL REQUEST : Please do a Scud Race Special video. It's one of my absolute favorite Sega games, and they NEVER gave us a console port of it. (I would have loved to play/see it on Dreamcast, i'm sure it could pull it off) GREAT channel - keep it up!!!! ^^
I bought Rayearth when it first came out. I saw an article about it before it was released, and I was super excited to get my hands on it. I still have it, although the case is cracked now. The front cover has a rainbow foil effect that made it extra cool. One of my fave parts was listening to Umi call Alcyone the B word in her diary. XD They voice acted the crap outta this game.
Working Designs deserve a lot of credit for bringing games to the English speaking audience. It wasn't until relatively recently though that I realised how much they tinkered with the games other than translating them. I just recently discovered the Unworking Designs community that removes the changes they made to game play while keeping their translations.
I an exactly the same. All but Sega Ages. Wish I'dve picked it up back when it was $15. Still, I ended up with the vast majority of what anyone would want on Saturn, so I can't complain.
Looking into Magic Knight Rayearth on the Saturn led me to learning about the anime it was based on, and that was my gateway drug into anime. It was many years later, however, before I finally snagged this. Luckily before it shot up to $400.
I love your videos. Im always wondering what you will do next. Thank you for coming back. I missed your time away. I even had looked you up on message boards asking if the sega lord x would ever return. Please dont ever leave us again sega lord x. We need you! You bring us the sega knowledge and love like no one else can deliver. The other guys are just paid shills. Dont let them get to you if mentioned. They are jealous AF!
I'm one of probably 5 gamers that Dragon Force didn't click for. I loved the idea, and bought it because so many others loved it, but once I fired it up, I was unimpressed. Not taking away from those who love it - I certainly love the look, and the premise and I wanted to like it - But after a few tries, I ended up selling it off when I needed the cash. I only sometimes regret it, but remember that I never really felt that game the way others do/did. Love WD games as a whole. They did great presentation, and really seemed to love their work. I was sad to see them go.
So thankful that I own copies of Albert Odyssey, Dragon Force, and Iron Storm. I would've bought Sega Ages: Volume 1 , but I already owned the Japanese versions.
Oh man!!! Such nostalgia!!! WD, for me, was one of the best publishers in the PS1/SS era. So many JRPG gems that I only got the chance to play because of them...
I bought a Saturn the week it was released back then. Sadly like many others I became enthralled with the PS & N64 once they released and I never bought any of these WD games. The Saturn became my 3rd option and my money ended up going to PS & N64 games. I vividly remember seeing the cover art on display at stores of these releases and being amazed but never pulling the trigger. Damn you Nintendo and Sony!!!
What a bunch of good memories! I finished and enjoyed a lot both Shining Wisdom and Magic Knight Rayearth that are very good games!!! I finished multiple times the Dragon Force with a lot of characters. Bach in early 00's I almost made the sign of the Dragon Crest as a tatoo :)
I just remembered I have Magic Knight Rayearth that I bought in Canada back in late 1998. I just checked and it's complete. The manual with the stickers and registration card. Nice to know it's worth something, but I'm not giving it up for anything. And it's in mint condition. :)
I loved the work they put into bringing such great games over to the US! The boxes were great. The manuals were great. They may have had problems with translations which I think some have complained about, but I don't care. I got to play a lot of great games because of their hard work.
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Hey Sega Lord now that the Game is coming to PS4 how about talk about to me great serie of Sakura taisen Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast versión that i play with a printed script from gamefaqs
Since Dragon Force 2 now has an English patch, you could now actually be the 1st person on TH-cam to review it! Since I have my Saturn chipped, I've been wondering if I should skip straight to DF2 over DF1?
SLX, I have a lot of 2-D fighting games for Saturn and Dreamcast. I use the RAD2X for Saturn(smoothing off) and the GEKKO HDMI box for Dreamcast. I think the 2-D fighters look much better on Saturn. They look more pixelated on Dreamcast.
@@gundamsdm I dunno, I bought Dragon Force 2 because I loved the original so much, but it was a different play mechanic, music was different and of course I couldn't understand a lot of the storyline. Is is possible to download the patch and put it on a disc iso to play? I might breakout my Saturn and play it again.
@animatedplastic Yup, it's possible! There should be YT vids on the subject.
Shining Force 3: Ch. 1-3 is also fully translated now.
I was lucky enough to snag a Saturn with Dragon Force and Albert Odyssey when they were on clearance in 98. I don't regret that purchase a bit.
Clearance saves the day !!!
Nice. Still have them?
@@MrSerpico145 Absolutely! I still play through Dragon Force at least once a year. Probably my favorite game.
Me too. When Media Play went out of business I got Iron Storm and Dragon Force out of the clearance bin for $20 total. Dragon Force is without a doubt my favorite game of all time.
Remember when Working Designs used to sell some games on their site? I remember they sold Magic Knight for 55 bucks there and i felt it was so expensive haha. I bought it and i dont regret it.
That game goes for $800-1000 on ebay…
i really hate this resell culture we live in. It has gotten exponentially worse after 2020.
The Saturn was a underrated console. I even underrated it back in the day, because i bought a Saturn back in the day and my friend loan me a bunch of Saturn games and most them i did not like. Then i sold my Saturn to my friend older brother months later which i regretted because X-men Vs Street Fighter came out shortly after. Then in the mid 2000`s i bought a Saturn again with 5 games on Ebay for 50 dollars which included X-men Vs Street Fighter and its sequel and Night Warriors. And i started to discover that Saturn had a lot of hidden gems by watching youtube vids of Saturn games. Now i have at least 35 Saturn games and plan to get more. This is by far the best Sega channel on YT.
And it's honestly Segas fault it was underrated. Their bad decisions prevented it from really getting to shine.
I love my Saturn too. I love to play Shining Wisdom. Dragon Force is great , I just need more memory to save files. Magic Knight , I really enjoyed and thought the graphics were pretty nice.
@@SomeOrangeCat So true. So many Playstation people and media say that the playstation version of X-Men Vs. Street Fighter is much better then the Saturn version. I prefer Saturn version , maybe it's because Saturn controller is better for those types of games. I still love my Saturn.
Great video.
Dragon Force... I made it my mission to find and recruit as many secret characters as I could, in each scenario.
Took me 20 years to find the secret dimension in Shining Wisdom. There are several secret scenes to be found in Albert. Got all the Rainbow Amulets in Rayearth. Enjoyed 60 FPS in OutRun.
Great, great games!
Recruiting all the hidden dudes in Dragon Force was no small thing. Multiple playthroughs and lots of exploration unless you use a guide.
Albert Odyssey was my first go at an RPG the other year. For a beginner I really enjoyed it. Simple and forgiving. Loved the soundtrack.
Magic Knight Rayearth, pixel art everywhere. Amazing music and great gameplay. So much fun!!!!
I loved Working Designs from the day I played through Lunar on its release. All the pop culture references and jokes were great. This was a time when video games had nothing to do with mainstream culture (at least till PS1). Having mainstream references in a Sega CD game made it sooo cool. My Working Designs collection had a separate section in my collection that I treasured. I was lucky to get the games used for less than retail before they became collector status. I was at 100% on Sega and about 90% on sony when a flood took it all away. It is absolutely the most missed part of my collection that I lost, (which included a full Saturn and DC fighter/shooter collection). Who remembers the 1st time they read the back of the manual in a WD game? Thank you Victor for all you did.
Oh man, can you do a video on Working Design games for the Sega CD. Those were some real bangers. I mean, I have yet to meet someone who has played Lunar 1 and 2 and doesn't at least remember them fondly. Working Design's translation team was top-notch and injected quite a bit of humor into games. I still find myself chuckling to dialogue from Nall in Lunar 1 or just everyone in Lunar 2 to this day. It's fantastic.
Dragon Force just is that good.
I have, like, 90% of what Working Desgns put out, including their Spaz label stuff. They were just about the only outfit putting out nice limited editions, foil-embossed full color manuals, translation notes, etc. You just knew that you were getting something slick whenever you picked up one of their games.
Bless you... I asked for a Working Designs tribute and you delivered. I hate to admit that I wasn't aware of a couple titles from the saturn, but now I know. Thumbs up. Oh, by the way, I do know that it was Working Designs adherence to putting out a quality product that ultimately was their undoing. They refused to put out a title that did not meet their standards and it ultimately shut them down ... but thank god they had those standards. It would be good if others had those standards. Another thing... I do like the translations to be as close as possible, but I understand that certain things which would fly in Japan doesn't work here - and vice versa. You look at all the pop references and inside jokes on popful mail as compared to panic CD.... and you can see.
For anyone that doesn't know, Magic Knight Rayearth is one of those few games for the saturn where the save file is compatible with both regions. if you've been playing the game in japanese and want to pick up from where you left off on the english version the game will read the file and also works the other way with it.
Back when I started collecting PC Engine games, I won some on eBay that were mailed from Victor Ireland from Redding, CA where Working Designs was based.
My Saturn has been collecting dust for two years now. But don't get me wrong, it's connected and ready to fire up at any time. I just didn't have the time to play it! I really miss playing this beautiful machine!
About the critique regarding WD, it wasn't just the liberties taken with the translations, it was also pretty major gameplay changes. The changes made to Popful Mail, artificially made the game more difficult by increasing the stats of the enemies while decreasing your own. I agree that if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have gotten English translations of many Japanese games at all, including Dragon Force which is one of the Saturn's best games. But the critiques are valid, and so are the romhacks that reverse the WD changes.
iron storm what a blast from the past lol. i remember taking turns with friends trying to win a battle and thinking it would only take like 20-30 more minutes and it taking hours. such a fun game lol
Absolutely gutted that Working Designs didn't release Albert Odyssey and Magic Knight Rayearth over here in the UK too, they both look like the kind of games that I absolutely love to play.
Wow going from working designs on sega cd to this video you can definitely see the increase in your videos quality.
Great video, thanks! I was a very big fan of Working Designs. Living in Europe it wasn't easy to get my hands on Saturn games but luckily i found a gamestore of which the owner was a big Saturn fan and he imported almost everything from the US and Japan. It was here that i found Shining Wisdom and i fell in love with Working designs because of this game. Later on i would discover the awesome Dragon Force and the funny Albert Odyssey. I waited years for Magic Knight Rayearth and it was a fantastic game which i still rank pretty high on my top 10 list of videogames.
The boxart of Working designs games were always something special.
Playing Magic Knight Rayearth feels like watching the show. This is where before PreCure was so popular, Rayearth is just enjoy from the past.
I'm so glad they decided to translate Magic Knight Rayearth. I'm in the middle of that game now and found it about a year ago. I just had to try it because I really enjoyed the anime as a teenager and it's a very good game too. I just should play it more often. Great video!
I know, two year-late reply, but I finished the game today and had a blast with it, at the end of July I finished watching the anime and got curious about the Saturn game, so I decided to play it, did not regret that decision at all!
@@marcellosilva9286 thanks for the reply anyway. Yeah, I got stuck in the game at some point, and have since lost the whole game! I feel bad for not being able to finish it, since I really liked it By the way, they also made a SNES game of Magic Knight Rayearth but I don't think it was released outside of Japan. So I used to play it using an emulator and a english patch as a teenager. But I got stuck in that one too. At the black woman ( I forgot her name) boss battle. It was a decent RPG
@@Jussi.Ihander I heard about the SNES JRPG, there was an addendum released for the 1999 fan translation which contained bugfixes and other things, came out September 1st, which is pretty nuts.
Also, the dark-skinned girl is Caldina, I like her a lot. In fact, the characters in Rayearth are so likeable and charismatic, it's one of the main reasons I still keep thinking about it.
@@marcellosilva9286 Oh yeah, Caldina her name was. I used to like Ascott. And hey, how legendary the opening songs are, for both seasons! :)
I wish working design still existed. They made some amazing games for turbo and Sega .... cosmic fantasy 2 and lunar eternal blue is still some of my favorite games.
I got Magic Band Rayearth on a repro. Working Designs as a company kicked ass.
"We're nothing without you."
Dragon Force 2 was never translated, but there is a fan translation patch for the Japanese game. :)
I highly suggest you try it.
Finally someone who praises Dragon force here in YT. One of the best games of all time for me, way ahead of it´s time. Still have my copy i got for birthday in 97.
I love when TH-cam just randomly recommends your videos. Haven't watched this one in a while. Still just as good! I'm actually in the middle of a Dragon Force playthrough now.
Magic Knight Rayearth was one of my favoutates, loved the anime too
Dragon Force is phenomenal. You are correct in your opinion of it. love it to this day
I missed out on the Saturn, and I loved Working Designs. I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd love to see rereleases of these, but if we couldn't even get any of the WD games for the Sega Mini 2, chances are slim to none.
Been playing Dragon Force on and off for a few months now, put maybe 10 hours into it so far, ALWAYS wanted to play it and finally got the chance to, just conquered the further most South-West castles and now control the entire south west area of the map. SUCH a good game.
you gonna do a Working Design of games from other systems like Sega CD?
man if you look at the japanese catalogue of the sega saturn and turbografx 16 it becomes apparent that we needed like 5 more Working Designs.
I bought Dragon Force around when it came out from a high school classmate of mine's brother complete and in great condition for $40.
I'd say that was a pretty solid purchase.
Damn right it was! I looked everywhere for that game back in the day and could never find it, let alone afford it...
It was a $70 games back then at launched day. It's a must own game because each character has a unique story. You have to beat the game to unlock the last character .
I have played all of these games and still own most of them. Many of them were some of the best games on the Saturn (Albert Odyssey, Iron Storm, and Magic Knight Rayearth), and one of which is one of the best games of all time for me (Dragon Force). We all have different opinions, but I don't think you gave Albert Odyssey as much credit as it deserves. It's old school but is just beautiful and so well made, and it has one of the best soundtracks there is.
Keeping the iconic Sega Saturn alive in 2020. Truly love your content man. Keep up the excellent work!
Rayearth and Albert Odyssey are two of my favorite games on Saturn. Considering the US lineup was somewhat hurting for RPGs, they were a welcome find.
ReaverPrime I definitely favor Lunar series, but I always wanted to play Rayearth and Albert Odyssey. Going to build a game station to run it via emu soon.
@@wolffactor56 2 great games, well worth a play through.
Oh man I love Working Designs. I miss them and their over the top packaging.
I remember borrowing Magic Knight Rayearth from an uncle, and thinking, from seeing the boxart, it was childish. It was a pretty good RPG, however.
Being a fan of the Shining Force games on the Genesis, Wisdom kinda fell flat in comparison. Especially with SF3 coming out later on the Saturn.
I was able to buy Dragon Force six years ago on the cheap on a market, and still play it now and then. Great game play and visuals, it's still a favorite.
I purchased a Japanese Saturn recently thanks to you. Been having a blast with it. I always wanted one growing up.
I have Albert Odyssey on the Saturn. I love the funny U.S. edited script.
I loved Albert Odyssey -- great humor and had an epic soundtrack as good as the best of Final Fantasy music
Man, I really need to get into Dragon Force. It's a game I've always wanted to try, and I managed to find a disc only copy a few years back. I still haven't given a fair go. You've reinforced the need to do so, though. Thanks, man.
Thanks for the release!
You could do the same with all Treasure Games.
Thats a damn good Idea!
I loved working design and went to the local game store every time they came out with a new game. Miss those days.
I don't mind them taking liberties with the translations. After all, if you're trying to sell a game to an English-speaking market that mostly isn't into Japanese culture, you have to account for the fact that your consumers aren't going to catch or enjoy a lot of references and allusions you'd get from a strict translation. The problems came when they also changed the game behavior, such as making Silhouette Mirage a lot harder and more grindy.
Since you pointed out the fact that Iron Storm, Albert Odyssey and Magic Knight Rayearth were never released in Europe, here are some points about the European releases of the other games to complement your info.
Yeah, Dragon Force and Shining Wisdom were actually released in Europe. In the case of Dragon Force, the European version carries out the same Working Design localization of the North American version, which was licensed to Sega Europe to publish it themselves (this is a Sega game after all). However, in the case of Shining Wisdom, the European version features a totally different localization done by Sega Europe itself. This is a very similar situation to what had happened to Ragnacenty/Crusader of Centy/Soleil on the Mega Drive, which had a North American localization done by Atlus and a totally different European localization (not just in English in this case, but also in German, French and Spanish) performed by Sega Europe and its various European offices.
Obviously, the Sega Ages compilation had nothing to do with Working Designs in Europe. It was released by Sega Europe quite some time before the North American release in fact, so in this case Working Designs just licensed the same combined European release for North America.
good info
SoA was kind of braindead when it came to localizing Japanese games to the Saturn. American Saturn fans were grateful to Working Designs and were sad to hear they had a falling out with Sega and would stop producing for Sega....although they ended up making the last US Saturn release anyway. On a what if, I can't help but wonder if they would have picked up Dragon Force 2 if Sega didn't piss them off.
I had at one time 4 of those games. Shining Wisdom, Dragonforce, Albert and Rayearth. Yeah love all 4 Dragonforce was so good I imported the sequel. Research was worth the wait and the twist at end was so awesome.
It is such a bummer that this company is no longer around. I own a quite a few of their games across Turbo Duo,
Saturn, and PlayStation. The work they did was amazing as I know we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to experience most of the games they localized and published over the years they were around. They chose some really good games. They had an excellent eye for u inquest and fun gaming experiences.
I was quite hooked on Dragon Force back in the day; would play for hours on end, the gameplay was so addictive.
One of the best games on the system IMO.
I think Magic Knight Rayearth was dissed by publications because it wasn't some flashy title that showed off the system's power.
Suppose they expected otherwise for the console's swansong
Yeah, Edge/Next Generation always gave bad reviews to 32 bit that weren't in 3d...including Castlevania SOTN. I'm glad that rag NG is no longer around and it's really funny that gamers today prefer 2d pixelated games that are actually fun to play.
@@MistaMaddog247 Spot on. The circle is complete, lol.
You know, that's probably where I remember reading that, too; I did have a Next Generation subscription at the time.
So very glad to see you cover Working Designs! Loved everything about what they did for gaming, especially the amazing packaging and funny localization. Really miss this in today's gaming scene...
thnx 4 praisin' Dragon Force, I LOVE THIS GAME !!!
Working Designs used to change the games a lot and with this put some nasty bugs and glitchs. Here i never be able to finish Albert Odissey cause the battle lock bug even mentioned in the last page of the manual...sometimes in the game when the battle comes it loads all stuff but "forget" the menu and the game locks with the only option to reset the console and try again...
that voice acting for magic knight rayearth...
I have a few notes
The outtakes were so funny!!!
@@BrendanRaymondKoroKoro the outtakes are awarded to you after you finish the game
th-cam.com/video/pqtmIf336RU/w-d-xo.html
If it does not work try looking for "Magic Knight Rayearth (Saturn) - Outtakes"
I wish Working Designs had released Princess Crown in the USA.
Part of the reason I went with the Saturn before the PSX was the upcoming Lunar remakes. I was heartbroken when Sega pissed off Working Designs, causing them to announce that Lunar 1 and 2 would be coming to the PSX exclusively. I snagged Dragon Force and Shining Wisdom for $30 each, used but in great condition, at Babbage's back in late 97. Shining Wisdom isn't that great, but Dragon Force is one of my favorite games of all time. Magic Knight Rayearth I bought in summer 2000 off ebay for a whopping $45. There were HUNDREDS of listings for the game, all brand new, sealed. I'm sure it was due to overstock. I wish I had bought a couple extra copies.
As an aside, I gotta say getting Shining the Holy Ark and Albert Odyssey back-to-back in summer '97 was heaven for an RPG gamer. That was the last era of a pre-FFVII world, where RPGs were not completely rare but were still uncommon.
Iron Storm literally made me go through a WW2 phase in high school
Love all these and still play them from time to time. Great video X!
I've seen and heard of Dragon Force several times, I've heard often that it's one of the best. However I never actually considered it, you've finally sold me on it I assumed it was a complicated time sink like Ogre battle/ FF tactics ogre.
Thank you for sharing information about Sega sytems like this, it's not often I can find good recommendations on TH-cam that aren't all the well known games.
These videos have been getting progressively more professional, and well edited over the years and I'm glad to see this becoming successful.
Bought it day one when it came out because I was the guy that did whatever Diehard Gamefan told me, but I was a young teenager who totally never followed through on Strategy and RPG games (and I sucked at them too). I remember the over the top battles with a million sprites being an eye catcher but tbh, I don’t recall the game itself being much of an improvement of the genre. Take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Thanks for the info, I'll at least look into it further if I do eventually buy it, I get burned out on more indepth games in the genre so if it's simpler or not that deep or challenging I might be able to enjoy it.
I bought Magic Knight Rayearth when it first came out in late 1998 when I worked at then Software Etc now Gamestop. Sold it on eBay for a lot of money in 2006, but I regretted it later on.
Putting out quality content so often is admirable. Thank you
Well done. I appreciate everything they did for the Turbo CD, Sega CD and Sega Saturn.
My friends who are very casual gamers really enjoyed playing Iron Storm all weekend long back in the day. It is a solid title that does not take long to get the grips of
I really like the content on this channel. It’s competent yet family friendly. I couldn’t afford to have a sega Saturn or Dreamcast but this channel has helped me experience a taste of what I’ve missed. Well done
Hi Sega Lord X. I'm a huge fan. 👍
I just saw the title of this video and had to watch it immediately. I wondered if you would mention Iron Storm, and it was the very first one. It was one of my favorite SS games. It was fantastic.
I'll always have fond memories of Working Designs and the love they showed with every game they released. It was a sad day when they stopped publishing games for Sega hardware. Much worst when they closed shop. Working Designs was a gem in gaming industry.
Iron Storm is a timeless rare jewel
I really appreciate your work SLX, you bring me the exact content I want.. it's like you read our minds super job man, thanks for your time!
Thank you so much for this video, I never knew that about Working Designs, like many, I thought they had developed the games 🎮, but they helped to localize them, I can't imagine a world without Popful Mail and Lunar, thats what I grew up with, so thank you, I appreciate that company way more now thanks to you.
Surprised you didn't mention this.
One of the reasons WD is generally disliked is because they had a habit of cranking the difficulty up on games to the point where they're often unenjoyable. It wouldn't shock me to learn this is why Albert Odyssey has such a high random encounter rate.
One example I can speak to is Alundra. While not the best game ever made, I got fed up half way through after feeling like I was attacking enemies with a broom. Turns out WD cranked up the difficulty by making enemies much harder to kill.
I can handle the sophomoric humor, but difficulty cranks are ridiculous. You've even taken issue with them with games like Streets of Rage 3. Others often complain how the difficulty was cranked through the roof of Ninja Gaiden 3.
Some games have fan patches to fix the difficulty changes called "Un-Worked Designs"
ust imported a Saturn after watching your channel. These Working Designs titles are a big reason. Great video!
Holy crap did I ever spend hundreds of hours into Iron Storm!!! I beat the game as Germany and evolved my units to wonder weapon status. Go-229 stealth fighter bombers, the invincible Maus tank, panzer grenadier units armed with panzerfausts and stg-44's. I one day noticed foo fighters in the game as well. Yes...UFO's lol. During some battles you would see one hanging in the sky above the battlefield. I curiously went through the sound test on Iron storm to hear UFO and laser sounds. Somehow UFO's fight or maybe become units in the game. Its known the Germans worked and researched saucer designs before and during the war. Still intersting to find in the game.
At the end, I bought Magic Knight Rayearth for $20 @Toyrus. I was a fan of the anime series. I saw Working Design logo which mean that it is a quality good game and plus the fact of my favorite anime, I got to buy it at a cheap price. I still got it to this day.
My favorite is the Dragon Force. It is by far the best SRPG game to date.
i have played dragon force more than any game i have ever played. would have loved to see an official English release of 2, it supposedly fixes some of the flaws. always remember how they reversed the cheering and booing on the search events. archers are useless, mages must be micromanaged, so many retreats, hell, in your clip seeing the dragonman text box got me on edge cause here comes the combo.
2 has been released in English few years ago. Played it on my Saturn.
@@drunkensailor112 official. the fan translation is good.
You know, Magic Knight Rayearth is actually based on a Japanese manga by acclaimed all female art group CLAMP, I'm actually a big fan of their work, though Magic Knight Rayearth isn't my top favorite of their stories, I'm more into Cardcaptor Sakura, but this series is still really good, and still a great showcase of their fantastic artwork. A little side trivia they tend to put older characters from their past work into later stories of theirs, one of the characters in Magic Knight Rayearth reappears in Reservoir Chronicles Tsubasa.
Man, I loved Shining Wisdom back in the day.
Great video. Just found this because I was trying to figure out why Magic Knight Rayearth goes for so much now...I didnt know it was the last ever released Saturn game to be released in the US. I was heavy into the Japanese Saturn Games, with exception of the Working Design games. Saturn was an under appreciated system due mostly because some of the great games that came out were only released in Japan. My favorite game is also Dragon Force. I was kind of upset when I learned that they had variants on the disc and memory card sticker. You wouldn't know that unless you had seen a bunch of them. Love seeing videos about the Sega Saturn.
Thanks for posting this x, when i owned a sega saturn a long time ago, i didnt get to play all of working designs games. Pretty soon im picking up an odroid xu4 with over 180,000 games on it, luckily im getting the entire sega saturn, and dreamcast game library's with this purchase. The reality is it would cost me thousands to get a saturn, upgrade to hdmi, and buy physical copies of these games. At long last i ll finally have the entire saturn library, never got to play dragon force btw. God knows i will be spending LOTS of time with that one
Working Designs was my favorite company back then and I had Dragon Force as well.
And unlike a lot of people I think their translations were okay and didn’t alter the spirit of the game much.
What I didn’t like is how they intentionally made games more difficult for the US market. Popful Mail for Sega CD is a good example of this. They made items cost more money, gave the player less health, and made the enemies stronger. I don’t know why Working Designs felt it necessary to alter the gameplay of many games to increase difficulty.
There are some fan-made patches that remove these difficulty changes while keeping the translation. It is “Unworked Designs” I believe.
Or Exile 2 Wicked for turbografx CD, they basically broke the game tweaking it.
the increased difficulty was done to deal with people beating the games too quickly. Other games had this done for the U.S release too, not just Working Designs. Some examples are Dino City, Contra Hard Corps, Seventh Saga, Streets of Rage 3, and Castlevania Bloodlines.
True, but some of them they made easier, like reducing the encounter rate and increasing walking speed in Albert Odyssey.
Definitely agree with you on the translations. Yes I would like more faithful translations, but there's no way I can hate on a company that was willing to take a risk on products no one else would even consider. Accurate or not, I'm just glad we got to experience stuff like this at all. Robotech is another good example of the same concept. The modern era of translations has spoiled us.
I have almost every Working Designs game. Victor Ireland was really ahead of the times. They were releasing obscure RPGs long before Atlus and others got popular over here. I'm still supporting him and his new company Gajinworks. Bought the special Summon Night 6 box set from their site. Goes for quite a bit now. Too bad Bernie Stolar cockblocked them from releasing Lunar for the Saturn. Shining Wisdom actually fits into the other Shining games coming right before Shining the Holy Ark. Played Iron Storm a lot especially with a code that lets you play co op. Panzer Dragoon Saga is my favorite Saturn game but Dragon Force is great.
Hey Sega Lord X!
I'm super impressed how you manage to pump out new videos at that high rate and quality.
How many people have you hired to edit the videos? LOL
OFFICIAL REQUEST : Please do a Scud Race Special video. It's one of my absolute favorite Sega games, and they NEVER gave us
a console port of it. (I would have loved to play/see it on Dreamcast, i'm sure it could pull it off)
GREAT channel - keep it up!!!! ^^
I bought Rayearth when it first came out. I saw an article about it before it was released, and I was super excited to get my hands on it. I still have it, although the case is cracked now. The front cover has a rainbow foil effect that made it extra cool. One of my fave parts was listening to Umi call Alcyone the B word in her diary. XD They voice acted the crap outta this game.
Working Designs deserve a lot of credit for bringing games to the English speaking audience. It wasn't until relatively recently though that I realised how much they tinkered with the games other than translating them. I just recently discovered the Unworking Designs community that removes the changes they made to game play while keeping their translations.
Working Designs on the label, quality on the table.
I have all these games except Sega Ages. I love Working Designs so much. RIP :(
I an exactly the same. All but Sega Ages. Wish I'dve picked it up back when it was $15. Still, I ended up with the vast majority of what anyone would want on Saturn, so I can't complain.
Looking into Magic Knight Rayearth on the Saturn led me to learning about the anime it was based on, and that was my gateway drug into anime. It was many years later, however, before I finally snagged this. Luckily before it shot up to $400.
I love your videos. Im always wondering what you will do next. Thank you for coming back. I missed your time away. I even had looked you up on message boards asking if the sega lord x would ever return. Please dont ever leave us again sega lord x. We need you! You bring us the sega knowledge and love like no one else can deliver. The other guys are just paid shills. Dont let them get to you if mentioned. They are jealous AF!
I love all of Working Designs stuff. I was first exposed to them on TG-16. I love the stuff they did for PS1.
I love Working Designs!!!
I'm one of probably 5 gamers that Dragon Force didn't click for. I loved the idea, and bought it because so many others loved it, but once I fired it up, I was unimpressed. Not taking away from those who love it - I certainly love the look, and the premise and I wanted to like it - But after a few tries, I ended up selling it off when I needed the cash. I only sometimes regret it, but remember that I never really felt that game the way others do/did.
Love WD games as a whole. They did great presentation, and really seemed to love their work. I was sad to see them go.
Such a great channel. Keep it up dood!
So thankful that I own copies of Albert Odyssey, Dragon Force, and Iron Storm. I would've bought Sega Ages: Volume 1 , but I already owned the Japanese versions.
Oh man!!! Such nostalgia!!! WD, for me, was one of the best publishers in the PS1/SS era. So many JRPG gems that I only got the chance to play because of them...
I bought a Saturn the week it was released back then. Sadly like many others I became enthralled with the PS & N64 once they released and I never bought any of these WD games. The Saturn became my 3rd option and my money ended up going to PS & N64 games. I vividly remember seeing the cover art on display at stores of these releases and being amazed but never pulling the trigger. Damn you Nintendo and Sony!!!
I don't usually go out to get a complete collection of something, but I made an exception of the Saturn Working Designs games.
What a bunch of good memories! I finished and enjoyed a lot both Shining Wisdom and Magic Knight Rayearth that are very good games!!! I finished multiple times the Dragon Force with a lot of characters. Bach in early 00's I almost made the sign of the Dragon Crest as a tatoo :)
I was obsessed with all things Woking Designs. Always enjoyed their translations.
I just remembered I have Magic Knight Rayearth that I bought in Canada back in late 1998. I just checked and it's complete. The manual with the stickers and registration card. Nice to know it's worth something, but I'm not giving it up for anything. And it's in mint condition. :)
I love your channel, man.
Dragon Force is the greatest game on the Saturn!!! Thank you for the video and covering my favorite...ummm publisher.
I loved the work they put into bringing such great games over to the US! The boxes were great. The manuals were great. They may have had problems with translations which I think some have complained about, but I don't care. I got to play a lot of great games because of their hard work.
I miss Working Designs so much.
I really need to play Dragon Force always wanted to and you just reminded me.