The best Sega Saturn games that should be remembered

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The Sega Saturn met its untimely demise in equal part due to Sony’s immaculate PlayStation launch and to Sega’s own poor decisions. There’s one thing they did well, however, and that was coming up with a short-but-sweet game catalog that holds way more gems than most remember.

Sadly, few people remember that one of the most popular and influential video game series began its life on the Sega Saturn.

Yeah, even though many used to see Lara Croft as an unofficial PlayStation mascot due to how she blew up on Sony’s platform, the truth is that the original Tomb Raider was actually a brief Saturn exclusive in Europe.

Another really cool thing is that though Sega didn’t make the Saturn with 3D graphics as its main focus, the game runs just as well on the Saturn as it does on the PS1. Also, it features better colors, and, many of its effects, like the underwater distortion, look much better on the Saturn — because the PS1 version straight-up cut many of these effects.

Play it if you like: Uncharted, Soul Reaver, Dark Souls

This article isn’t a ranking, but I’d like to point out that if it were, Panzer Dragoon Saga would easily land on #1 for me.

Saturn is a very strange planet, likely the only one in the solar system where a studio can turn an arcade-y on-rails shooter into a full-blown RPG and have it rival contemporaries. This is an RPG like you’ve never seen before, and likely never will again, as it suffered a tragically unfair fate.

Yes, Panzer Dragoon Saga got serious critical acclaim upon release, but only relative commercial success. You see, it did sell well, so well in fact that it sold out in only two days, too bad it did so because Sega only ever printed around 20,000 copies for North America. That’s because Saga