10 Incredible Video Games Released On Terrible Consoles

9. Panzer Dragoon Saga (Sega Saturn)

Panzer Dragoon Saga
Sega

The Sega Saturn is one of the most divisive game consoles ever made, for despite its impressive specs and intriguing library of games, it was notoriously difficult to develop for, and after getting thoroughly curb-stomped by Sony's much cheaper PlayStation, Sega discontinued production just three years following its western release.

The Saturn still has many cheerleaders, though, and while most of its quality library was either available elsewhere or eventually ported to other platforms, there are a few holdouts that, depressingly, are still left hanging.

Case in point, we have what was surely the Saturn's best exclusive title, Panzer Dragoon Saga, which was quite aptly released at the very end of the Saturn's life, and boldly attempted to reinvent the rail shooter franchise as a ludicrously ambitious, four-disc RPG.

The game received near-universal acclaim for its graphics, dark story, complex characters and for successfully shifting genres mid-franchise, but due to the Saturn imploding shortly after its release, it's frequently hailed as the greatest game you've probably never played.

Despite its cult fandom, the game has never been ported to another system, and remains one of the most-requested ports in the history of video games.

With Nintendo recently announcing that the original 1995 Panzer Dragoon is getting a remake for the Nintendo Switch, fingers are crossed that this stone cold masterpiece might finally be liberated from captivity in the near-future, whether as a port or something more involved.

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