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Ranking of All Saturn Games

by borgmaster

As I play every game for the Sega Saturn in chronological order, I'll rank them here by how much I enjoyed my time with them. This is kind of agnostic of the actual quality of the games themselves. An explanation of what I'm doing with this can be found here.

The following games were unable to be ranked due to technical difficulties:

Creature Shock: Special Edition

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Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei

1. Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei

Developer: Team Andromeda Publisher: Sega Release Date: 4/17/1996 Time to Crashing The Game: 97 Minutes --- Improvement in every way over its predecessor. Best Rail Shooter of the time and likely one of the best overall Saturn games. --- Featured in Part 12

Panzer Dragoon

2. Panzer Dragoon

Release Date: 5/11/1995 Developer: Team Andromeda Publisher: Sega Time to To Be Continued: 55 Minutes --- Visually interesting rail shooter. The best game in its genre at the time. --- Featured in Part 01

Guardian Heroes

3. Guardian Heroes

Developer: Treasure Publisher: Sega Release Date: 4/24/1996 Time to Doing The Spirits' Bidding: 65 Minutes --- Side-scrolling Beat 'Em Up with RPG elements that has since become a cult classic. Better than it should have been and can be considered one of the best games in its genre at the time. --- Feature in Part 12

Virtua Racing

4. Virtua Racing

Release Date: 11/24/1995 Developer: AM2 / Time Warner Interactive Publisher: Time Warner Interactive Time to OutRunning The Competition: 49 Minutes --- Unique remake of the arcade classic. graphics and driving model are primitive by the standards of the time, but it still plays well and has a plethora of content. --- Featured in Part 07

Virtua Fighter Remix

5. Virtua Fighter Remix

Release Date: 9/28/1995 Developer: AM1 Publisher: Sega Time to Looking Up The Combos Again: 7 Minutes Time to Seeing Credits: 21 Minutes **NOTE: This is the last game on the list that I enjoyed playing** --- Moderately improved version of Virtua Fighter. Would have been a good value if you didn't have to pay for it. --- Featured in Part 03

Sega Rally Championship

6. Sega Rally Championship

Release Date: 11/18/1995 Developer: AM3 Publisher: Sega Time to Game Over Yeeeeaaaah: 28 Minutes --- Port of the arcade game. High quality port of the game that established the modern Rally Racing genre. Probably the high watermark of racing in its day, --- Featured in Part 06

Wing Arms

7. Wing Arms

Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Release Date: 1/5/1996 Time to Sinking Not-The-Yamato: 85 Minutes --- Straightforward WWII themed Flight Combat game. Gameplay and presentation are good enough, with only a few nitpicks to get hung up on. --- Featured in Part 09

Virtua Fighter

8. Virtua Fighter

Release Date: 5/11/1995 Developer: AM2 Publisher: Sega Time to Looking Up Combos: 25 Minutes Time to Seeing If These Cheats Work: 35 Minutes Time to Git Gud: 45 Minutes --- Port of the arcade game. First 3D Fighting game that was foundational for entire genre. --- Featured in Part 01

WipEout

9. WipEout

Developer: Psygnosis Publisher: Sega Release Date: 5/3/1996 Time to Failing To Qualify: 38 Minutes --- Ported from the PS1. The futuristic Racing style holds up in the transition and somehow the gameplay feels improved. --- Featured in Part 13

Street Fighter: The Movie

10. Street Fighter: The Movie

Release Date: 8/23/1995 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment Time to Beating Raul Julia: 35 Minutes --- Port of the arcade game based on the movie based on the arcade game. This runs significantly better on the Saturn than other consoles. --- Featured in Part 02

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