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If there's one genre of games
teh Dreamcast has been lacking its RPG's. Well,
maybe in Japan, actually DC has been lacking
quality RPG's in Japan. The only RPG's wroth
buying in Japan are Evolution, Shenmue, maybe
Black Matrix Advanced and the other game is the
one I'm going to talk to you about in this
preview. Its been over a year, and there is only
about 10 RPG's in japan. The sad thing is the
Japanes love RPG games. No wonder Dreamcast
consoles aren't selling well in Japan. But that
could soon change with the games like Phantasy
Star Online, Eternal Arcadia, Sakura Project
2000, and Evolution 2.
This preview is going to be
Time Stalkers (formerly known as Climax Landers
is Japan. After delaying the game tons of times,
Sega finally gave teh game a specific date, March
1, 2000. The game was released in Japan nearly a
year ago. Time Stalkers was suppose to be a
Dreamcast launch game under the Climax landers
name. Climax Graphics, the develper had problems
with the game programming when trying to bring to
North America and Europe. Since then, Climax has
added even more this to make the game look even
more impressive.
In the game, you start of as a
adventurer with a really bad hair do. Your caught
in a time warp that sent you to a floating world.
The people in the town think your the geat hero
who has come to rescue them and return them back
to their homes.
As you play through the game,
you'll meet five other people who are going to
help you rescue the helpless people. Each of the
five people you meaet have their own special
powers. Since the game's background include that
different era's are put together in no pattern,
thatis how Climax made each of the stages to
look. Each quest is in to pattern. So, in one
quest your in a futuristic world, the next quest
your in an the modern world. Eaverytime you finsh
a quest, a new piece of the puzzle will fall into
place.
Lets hope Climax used a
different camera system compared to the one in
Blue Stinger. The camera system in Blue Stinger
went all over the place, and I didn't know what
was happening in the game.
The gameplay is very similar to
Evolution. Searching dungeons, looking for
things, killing the bosses and enemies.
Overall, Time Stalkers seems to
be avery promising game. A lot of people I know
who have a Dreamcast and love RPG's can't wait
for this game. But, the graphics on the
characters isn't very good. Something I noticed
in all three games by Climax Grahics is the
characters design is horrible. Blue Stinger's
design was actually okay, but Time Stalkers and
Super Runabout have very bad character designs.
The background detail is amazing, but it doesn't
fit in with the characters.
Evolution is still a very good
game, probably even better than Time Stalkers.
When fighting the enemies in Evolution its very
complicated, but when you master it, its a lot of
fun. But, the fighting system in Time Stalkers
doesn't sound very sophisticated. I'll guess I'll
have to wait and see which RPG is better.
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Time
Stalkers
Publisher:
Sega
Developer:
Climax
Graphics
# of players: 1
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