Mystaria: The Realms of Lore Game Sample - Sega Saturn
0Original Air Date: November 17th, 2009
I uploaded the opening by itself for this game a long time ago and finally got around to putting up a few videos for it. Being developed by the same people who made Guardian War (aka Powers Kingdom) for the 3DO (and it CLEARLY shows), Mystaria was released in the U.S., PAL, and Japanese territories, but was oddly reprinted in the U.S. shortly afterwards with the name "Blazing Heroes", which has a few adjustments to the dialogue.
While Mystaria is stated to be the rarer of the two (and the only one to oddly say it's a Sega Saturn exclusive... aren't both only for Sega Saturn?), I've never even SEEN a copy of Blazing Heroes in the wild. It doesn't bother me much though... Mystaria sounds cooler anyway. Anyhoo, this game has a fair deal of depth for a Saturn Strategy game, with the combat system being a "reworked" Guardian War engine. Instead of using different "bodies", you can learn skills and assign them to various slots. The game is relatively straightforward and organized, providing descriptions for items and abilities, and there are a fair deal of characters to use.
Both this game and Guardian Wars are/were decent displays at the time of what the Saturn and 3DO could do. Some people might look at these games today and barf, but these were some of the early Japanese 32-bit Strategy games.
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