Best of the Sega Saturn

[Medic_wheat]

You kinda said no to the bread and butter for the Saturn.

It has great RPG’s. Although the FPS are meh.

What ever I recommend will be very broken record. It happens when you talk about a system where the games to recommend are usually the must have/own


Layer section/galactic attack
Darius
Almost any 2D fighter
Puzzle fighter (import only) granted I think it plays no different than the PS1 port which is NA
Panzar dragoon Zewi
Guardian hero’s

There are also some Japan only best em ups but I think they have gotten pricy.

[DragonmasterDan]

Super Tempo

[Gypsy]

I almost forgot: Last Gladiators Digital Pinball! Cheap and awesome.

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Most of the essential stuff has been mentioned.

Digital Pinball Necronomicon is also wicked awesome but costs a bit more. I think it's better, but if you are only buying one and are trying to keep the budget right, Last Gladiators still should be less than $10 shipped for the JP version.

Some of my top favourites, and I know I am mostly just reiterating games already listed in this thread.

Magical Drop II/III
Puzzle Bobble 2/3
Magic Knight Rayearth (BURN IT, as others have said)
Dragon Force (this is also pretty much burn territory these days I think)
Dungeons & Dragons
Sega Worldwide Soccer 98 (if you like sport games this one is pretty fun and simple, lots of modes iirc)
Sega Rally
Daytona
Saturn Bomberman

There are a lot of great shooters and NoPepper's post is actually a great starting point. I've played just about all of them and certainly DDP, Silvergun and Garegga are in the top 5 on Saturn. Layer Section is excellent too. I'm also really high on Soukyugurentai. Make sure you get the fixed version. Those are all pretty much true Saturn shooters. The Saturn also has a crap ton of compilations of older shooters.

Game that sucks don't play it

Albert Odyssey

[exodus]

I'll mention things I don't think others will.

If your japanese is decent, get these RPGs:
Cyber Doll
Dragon Master Silk
Black/Matrix

if you like multiplayer games, get:
Vatlva (car battle action)
Coin Puzzle Moujiya (basically Money Idol Exchanger)

If you like action in general get:
Bulk Slash
Steambot Chronicles
Silhouette Mirage - one of my favorite treasure games

fighting:
Toshinden URA (a saturn-only sequel to the first saturn Toshinden)
Asuka 120% Limited - best fighting game of the era for my money
Zero Divide - great music
The SNK stuff if you want that!

STG:
Shippū Mahō Daisakusen Kingdom-Grandprix - racing and shooting mixed
Batsugun - easy, but fun shooter with a lot of character to the backgrounds

Racing:
Touge 2: mountain passes are fun, but this also comes with a huge repository of people who sent in their own photos of themselves with their cars. Great 90s fashion and cars!!
Gran Chaser - good music in the japanese version
Sonic R - I don't care what anyone says, I love it (though do play it with the 3D controller)

uhhh there's plenty more but I could go on forever

[crazydean]

Well, it looks like I'm good on the Saturn for quite a while, haha. Thanks all for the suggestions. Feel free to continue posting your favorite games or what have you, but I plan to start at the top and work my way down.

As for RPGs, I like them, but I don't know how anyone could play more than two or three per year. As Chrono Trigger was just finished (finally crossed that off the backlog), it's going to be a few months before I'm ready for the next one.

[SignOfZeta]

As a Hudson fan I have to mention Yuna remix, Yuna 3, Willy Wombat, and Tengai Makyou: the Apocalypse IV and well as Bomberman Wars.

The only reason I didn’t mention Sakura Wars 1 and 2 before is because they are better on Dreamcast but that series is also largely produced by Red, who are a huge part of Hudson over the years.

[Black Tiger]

Virtua Cops and House of the Dead with two black Stunners/Virtua Guns.

[Bloufo]

Mass Destruction is a fun game. Great music.

[Medic_wheat]

Wait now I am confused.

In your original post it sounded like you wanted a list of games except for racing, FPS, and RPG.

But nearly everyone posted recommendations exactly for that.

So did you or did you not want recommendations or those types of games?

[nopepper]

Wait now I am confused.

In your original post it sounded like you wanted a list of games except for racing, FPS, and RPG.

But nearly everyone posted recommendations exactly for that.

So did you or did you not want recommendations or those types of games?

Just post your favorite Saturn games, for chrissakes.

[seieienbu]

On assumption you can play burned games I'd highly recommend Policenauts with the English translation patch. 

Also the Shining Force 3 trilogy is fully in English now, right?  The first game was released stateside at the end of the Saturn's life but the second and third chapters weren't released over here.  ...I need to look into playing the 2nd and 3rd in English now that I think about it. 

[TR0N]

Dark Savior
Cyberbots
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Virtual Fighter 2
Street Fighter Zero 3
Darius Gaiden
Radiant Silvergun
X-men vs Street Fighter,still the best port out there.
Vampire Savior
Virtual Cop 2

Take note any of the u.s panzer dragoons have gotten expensive unless you buy the japanese version,cheaper by the way.

[crazydean]

Wait now I am confused.

In your original post it sounded like you wanted a list of games except for racing, FPS, and RPG.

But nearly everyone posted recommendations exactly for that.

So did you or did you not want recommendations or those types of games?

Just post your favorite Saturn games, for chrissakes.

Lol. Yeah, I don't care for fighting games either, but there's enough here to get me started. As for the RPGs, I love action RPGs, just not turn-based.

[Gypsy]

Virtua Cops and House of the Dead with two black Stunners/Virtua Guns.

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Definitely worth getting. The Virtua Cop games you can pretty much get for next to nothing too.

[crazydean]

Some of these games I've already tried like Magical Knight Rayearth. I played for what seemed like forever and never really "played" anything. It was all text and moe. Is there an actual game in there?