You might be happy to learn there IS a high quality fan-translation of Princess Crown nearing completion for the Saturn...

Take a shot everytime he says, "it stayed in Japan."

Atlus has been around longer than Genesis actually. In the NES days they developed games for LJN, Namco, Hudson Soft like Friday the 13th, Xexyz, and in Japan the original versions of Megami Tensei 1 and 2.

Atlus & Sega was excellent collaboration on Saturn

Some of these games, particularly "Princess Crown", look AMAZING. Hoping for some ports soon

I'm glad you had Princess Crown in here.

Soul Hackers is legitimately one of the best games ever made. I'm glad it did eventually get a Western release.

23:35 the voice over kinda syncs up w/the animation there... :0

I just got a Saturn today lol. I'm excited to start collecting it. I have been watching your videos for awhile now. Which probably finally conviced me to buy a Saturn lol. I love Atlus games so I will probably check some these out!

I can appreciate what they were trying to do with Virtual Hydlide. Great concept, but the end result is a trainwreck. Also the protagonist walks like his last fart had lumps.

I have Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, and Ronde on the Saturn. Soul Hackers already has a 3ds port, but the other 2 need to be in English, including Ronde even though most people hate it for it's looks I still believe it deserves some love, even if it's hard to look at sometimes.

Looking forward to see episodes dedicated to Jaleco and Technosoft on the Saturn. Thank you!

thanks for all the saturn videos! was able to find all of the good games from this channel.

You cover what others don't, thats what I like about your channel Keep up the great work!

The PS1 version of Soul Hackers was attempted to get released in the United States, but was cancelled because Sony refused based of what it has. I think Sony USA didn't allow the early Shin Megami Tensei titles in the USA because of this, but Nintendo now allows games like that in everywhere they send to.

Virtual Hydlide is now quite famous thanks to Angry Video Game Nerd.

Sammy, Taito, Atlus, Irem were a few of my fav dev/publishers back in the day, a golden age.

Didn't even know there were SMT games on the Saturn

The fact that Devil Summoner is still locked away in Japan is a travesty.

Your content is top notch! Well researched, interesting, and expertly put together. Keep up the good work Mr. Lord X!

I have most of these, and while I'm a big shooter player, my favorite is Lunacy. The game has loads of atmosphere, and I have a soft spot for that style of fmv game. The Mansion of Hidden Souls games, D, and Enemy Zero all are slow, but riveting to me, and I've finished all of them multiple times.

I'm not sure Devil Summoner would have been the "Final Fantasy VII" of the Saturn - at the time, console RPGs were synonymous with, well, Final Fantasy in the west. Incidentally, I'd argue that the Soul Hackers port is the FFVII of the 3DS.

So cool that Sega actually owns ATLUS today. 3:58 Virtual Hydlide is not that good but the music in that game is really good.

Wait... ATLUS DID GAMES WITH SEGA BEFORE? IT FORESHADOWED EVERYTHING!

I'm playing through Catherine right now and getting ready to play 3D Dot Game Heroes. Atlus is right up there with the greats.

Sol Divide looks interesting enough to check out. I have all the other shooters you listed. They are all great fun to me.

Informative and needed, as usual. Keep it up!

I wish they would release the original Shenmue Sega Saturn tech demo

Thank you for the video! Its funny because watching this I realized how much more nostalgia I have for this generation of gaming.

Atlas are masters of 2D programmin, my nuts go numb when I play my sega Saturn

Gonna be getting a JP v2 Saturn with Pseudo Saturn in a few weeks. Can't wait to finally have one.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner would certainly have been a hit in the west i think. Would completely open new ways for it's JRPG genre In that era…

Great vid. Just when I think you’ve run out of sega Saturn ideas for videos, you surprise me with enjoyment every time.

Another great vid! I was late to the Saturn party, I got one in '97 or so and missed all of these imports. So thanks for another shopping list and keep up the awesome vids 👍🏿

didnt know Cave made a couple of driving games. Interesting

PLEASE someone translate Devil Summoner. I want to play this on Saturn 🙏

I friggin love lunacy,its so cryptic. I played it alot of times back in the day.

This was a great video! I have a few of the Atlus games you mentioned, and I have to say they are very solid!

I really enjoyed many of Atlus' published titles for the sega saturn. I especially really enjoyed purikura daisakusen and groove on fight. The great thing about those 2 titan games that got ported is that they received extra content not present in the STV cart. Such as voice acting for purikura daisakusen, and in the case of groove on fight is that you can now play as the boss characters which are really fun rather than doing some crazy glitch that could if I remember correctly potentially harm the stv cart. You even taught me that Cave even did a racing game which was quite mind blowing. As always you are so well spoken and very educational for even saturn collectors like myself. Thank you for your hard working efforts :)

dodonpachi and groove on fight are my only atlus games on the saturn. Fantastic games they are. Great video

Some of these are really unique and would've gone a long way to differentiate the Saturn from the Playstation here in the States. A damn shame. That Princess Crown looks like a system seller to me!

We didnt get devil summoner because of the satanic panic

Roses are red I'm a Sega Saturn fan This game was only Released in Japan

Your uploads are homeruns!!! Keep up the great work #SegaSaturn4life

Atlus was founded on April 07, 1986. Happy 35th anniversary :) While Atlus USA was founded on January 18, 1991. Happy 30th anniversary.

I'm super into Tokyo Xtreme Drift 2 right now so I was interested to learn about the Touge games for Saturn. Good video! Saturn is the hardest to collect for for me because I never find games just out in the wild and cases are often broken even in retail settings plus since RPG's are my favorite I don't think I'll ever have any of the higher dollar offerings.

i think i'm gonna be playing my saturn til i die because these fan translations will be trickling out forever hopefully.

Sengoku Blade was my Jam when I have the Saturn and Koyori the Miko is my bae for a long time for obvious reasons with her special bomb attack one of the coolest in shoot'up games history.

Atlus, Capcom, SNK, ahhh... those classic cults... I can't resist the Japanese video games, they are so memorable with every creativity they giving to us

I have soooo many Altus games. Especially for my 2DS.

With multiple characters, difficulty settings, paths and endings, Sengoku Blade has really nice replay value.

Princess Crown Is also the spiritual predecessor of PS2 masterpiece Odin Sphere, which i loved. I hope to play this game soon.

Very impressive. Never knew Atlus was a Saturn publisher outside of Virtual Hydlide. I know them more for Last Bible and Persona.

Shin Megami Tensei was so impressive for its early release date. It could have beaten FFVII to launch by a year even they took a year to localize. 32 bit gamers were dying for something more grown up, it would have been a hit just like the survival horror genre was suddenly a hit.

Interestingly, Devil Summoner is getting a fan-translation.

DonPachi is a beautiful shoot'em'up!

Hey, was Princess Crown develloped by the guys at Vanillaware? It looks so much like their artstyle, and Vanillaware has a long history of working with Atlus. Actually, thanks for talking about this game. I want to play it now.

Oh what I would not give for Atlus hard copy release of Princess Crown with full English translation! I can remember seeing screen scans in issues of Die Hard Game Fan way back when. It would likely never happen, but it sure would be nice.

Devil Summoner is on the 3DS nowadays. Took decades for it to happen but hey, at least now we can play it :)

I love sengoku blade It's a fantastic game! The artstyle is great and the mix of 2d and 3d visuals show what the Saturn could do! It's definitely in my top 10 shoot em ups for Saturn.

High Velocity is a really good game, still have mine.

Many years of Atlus games

I imagine this was the sales pitch for damn near every game in Japan at that time.... Dude! I have an awesome idea for this game!!! Ok, bro, what is it?? Dude! Its...... Demons!! Omg! Fuck yeah! That's just... Thats so fucking awesome. We'll get started on this immediately. It'll never leave Japan. Present day, everywhere: damn, we missed out on so much.

15:59 this looks real fun even by modern standards.

Another great video bro. Really enjoying the content so much.

Damn, I wish they created a Persona or Shin Megami Tensei for the Saturn. The console was a 2D powerhouse if you knew all the tricks up its sleeve, and they could've used the RAM cart expansions

Really hope we get Devil Summoner translated. That game looks awesome.

Virtual Hydlide looks like primitive Dark Souls.. Another great vid, keep it up.

Great videos Sega Lord X! keep up the good work.

Princess Crown and Vampire Savior were the first games I ever imported when they were new. Saturn imports from 97-99 were as good as anything on the PS1 and N64, in some genres they were drastically better.

Another home run for Sega Lord

There are some genuinely impressive games showcased here. As awesome as this video is, I find it hurts my heart to see such fantastic works go under appreciated. What you showed here would have afforded the Saturn much more leverage against the PS1 and N64. At the very least given those who bought one a positively diverse selection of software from which to choose.

I got Sengoku Blade on Switch after this video and I'm enjoying it.

Great video as always - but you missed the final Atlas release for the Saturn, which was Strikers 1945 II. btw, this format is great, I hope you do a similar one for Konami, as so many of their Saturn games were Japanese exclusives.

Aside from the "RPGs aren't in style", I wonder if the very Japanese setting and religious references had more to do with the choice to not bring Shin Megami Tensei over to the west.

Am glad we got the 3DS version of Soul Hackers also I hope that we get to see an official western release of Shin Megami Tensi Devil Summoners and Princess Crown in the near future.

SLX, this list is proof of why Sega eventually purchased Atlus wholesale! They (like Capcom also..) were almost a 2nd party developer for Saturn. Their output for the system was great & varied and, like You said repeatedly: Their best games were left to rot in Japan! So extremely dumb and oh so sad.. Very different world had these titles been promoted sooner. Princess Crown is a fave of Mine also and damn shame it's still so unknown. On the plus-side though, good chunk of the PC team would eventually go on to start up Vanillaware and they are a great developer! Thanks as always!!!

Sengoku Blade ♥ Still my favorite Saturn SHMUP!

Awesome video bro! Just when u thought you'd explored every 2D fight game. Groove on fight looks good. Def gonna add them to an arcade emulator ASAP. Some might already have it but I've never heard that name.

Dude you are simply amazing. Keep it going baby!!

Sega!!!!!!! Love that dam intro !!

Atlus has given us so many great games spanning almost every genre and console. I have always loved Atlus as they have a tendency to go their own way or to the beat of their own drum. While companies like Squaresoft began playing things safe Atlus always sought to bring something new to the table. The only type of game that they have never tried (I don't think) is the FPS. It may never happen but I know they could pull something magical of they tried.

It's amazing to think that even though Ronde basically killed the Majin Tensei series, SEGA now owns Atlus.

Strikers 1945 on Saturn, is imo the best shooter on any platform. Yep, that's how much I like it. (Part 2 was somehow a step back, the game played less smooth)

Just found your channel, thanks man!

Love your content bro. Love SEGA and Atlus too!

Awesome video as usual, helpful and useful. I would love you to make videos from the companies that made Saturn outstand. How about a video about treasure titles, wouldn't be that awesome?!? Greetings from Spain!!!

This is exactly what I wanted, I hope to see more videos like this, I wish you could do more videos on atlus games but I know they are lacking for sega consoles mostly in the west, DC and Genesis had one each?

Good stuff as usual. Your take on Sol Divide matches up with the reviews I checked out when the Switch version came out. I think some nice sprites would have helped make it more enjoyable to people. Just seeing what they did makes me think pixel-art would have suited the game nicely. I picked up Groove On Fight back in 1997 as my first RAM-cart game. I forget exactly why I got the region mod -- for a specific game or just to open up possibilities. I don't think I knew about X-Men vs. Street Fighter yet, and I wasn't really into Capcom or Marvel enough to feel the hype, though I did pick it up that winter. It worked out well though as I remember a friend taking me to a comic shop specifically to see Street Fighter 3, and I ended up falling in love with King of Fighters '97 instead and was happy to know I could play it with no worries when it came out shortly after. Back to Groove on Fight, I was just playing through that a bit a couple of months ago. It is a cool came. The sprite work isn't quite at the level of Capcom or SNK in 1997, but it's still very nice. The artwork and character designs are also very good. The final boss in that game is really tough, especially since it's basically a handicap match and it's hard to conserve life against him. The game was also my first tag-team fighting game. I think that's what really intrigued me about the game. Sadly, the 1MB RAM cart wasn't suited to the tag style. Storing data for four characters at once was tough. KOF fared better with it since there was no switching. A shame the 4MB cart couldn't have been around longer and used for more games.

I'm glad to see Prikura on here, but it would've been so much better if it controlled like Steamgear Mash.

Damn you Bernie Stolar!!!!!!!!!

talking about the saturn makes me wish someone would translate DeSpiria on the dreamcast

And now they are 1 company :)

oh I'm picking up DoDonPachi Resurrection on the next steam sale for sure. Shame you can't get the og but that will have to do.

Virtual Hylide the Elders Scroll of the 90s.

Fun fact: High Velocity was the fist racing game with vertical 2 player split screen.

You need to get a tattoo in the style of the "love mom" with the scroll going across a heart, but clearly, instead of mom, yours must say Sega Saturn; or simply Saturn. ;-p

Defiantly picking up the Sengoku games on steam when they come on sale. Damn I'm a sucker fir old smups. I even bought a re-decked out and xbox one hori arcade stick to use on my pc for them. These were the first person shooters of my day. Sure you can bet allot of them in under an hour but the fun is replaying that eye candy.😅 Also times limited nowadays sometimes and its allot easier to put 40 minutes into a Smup then some of the other fair I'm into that can take hundreds of hours. Like the Yakuza rpg or the latest Dragon quest. I love those games but dear god you can waste a whole day on those and not notice.

4:00 - Magic Knight Rayearth has the same level progression, and that doesn't get any hate. Personally I'd prefer if more RPG's did that. it means people can't just grind out battles early on to power their way through the rest of the game, or have to spend ages grinding at the end to beat the end game boss.

Torico looks like it would make a good movie