I'm a huge, huge, HUGE fan of both Afterburner and Panzer Dragoon, to the point where I have the soundtracks and have bought pretty much every version ever to exist. What does that have to do with this game?
I first saw videos of this game before it came out many years ago. Shortly thereafter the game was released and quickly dismissed as being slow and ugly. The videos that I saw did not look ugly so I was a bit puzzled, but a high price and relative unavailability kept me from picking this game up for years. Finally I got around to it and...
It's Aferburner combined with Panzer Dragoon. No joke. It has the gameplay of Afterburner minus the blistering speed and rolling, and has graphics which match the pace and style of Panzer Dragoon. The music is typical 90's era Sega guitar wailing, which you will either love or hate (I love).
Enough of that, how is the game? It's awesome. But in a very SEGA way. The graphics are loaded with clipping, pop-up, disappearing polygons, etc, but all in the same basic style of my favorite Saturn shooters. And yet...I love the graphics, and the game is REALLY fun. As in I died and then started at the beginning, died again and played individual levels from the extra menu.
I consider this game to be a hidden gem. It doesn't have flawless graphics or gameplay and yes it IS quite slow-paced compared to Afterburner, but if you love that style of graphics even when they are low-res and unoptimized, and can't get enough Panzer Dragoon and Afterburner, this is a must-buy.
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