Unfortunately, the first stage has fared the worst, as instead of an ethereal lake filled with mysterious ruins, there’s a lot more extraneous detail that ruins the mood and makes the fantasy world seem a lot more generic. A third mainline game, the well-received but commercially unsuccessful Panzer Dragoon Orta, appeared on the original Xbox, but that was the end of the franchise… until now. A brand new IP at the time, the Saturn also hosted a direct sequel and highly-regarded role-playing spin-off Panzer Dragoon Saga. Panzer Dragoon is one of the few games that fits both criteria and if you did happen to own a Saturn back in the mid-90s then you almost certainly also played Panzer Dragoon.
As a result, there are a lot of well-regarded Saturn games that never got released outside of Japan and a much small number of exclusives that were a) released in the West and b) considered to be any good. Almost completely ignored in the West, in favour of the first PlayStation and Nintendo 64, it was surprisingly successful in Japan (despite, equally surprisingly, the Mega Drive not being very big there).
The Sega Saturn console put the company firmly on the road to crashing out of the hardware business, but it holds a peculiar position in gaming history.
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