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1:22 Hello! “Talented Amateur Localiser” here! I was one of the translators for this patch, and am just glad that people outside Japan can finally enjoy this great game!

Translation groups blow my mind with how much hard work they put in for barely any fanfare. I wonder, are there any western text heavy games that get fan translations to Japan or elsewhere?

Dragon Force II? Whaaaaaaat? I remember watching my brother play Dragon Force back in the day and thinking it was so cool, but it was years before I even discovered what the name of it was. Now I'm learning about Dragon Force II? I think I need to rekindle my interest in this series. Thanks for the upload!

Dragon Force is such a unique game, I haven't played anything else quite like it. It's almost like a weird proto-RTS in the sense that you're moving multiple units around the map and trying to control territory, but it's also interesting to reveal different parts of the story by playing the same scenario from different factions perspectives. I kind of wonder why more games didn't explore this type of gameplay and expand on its mechanics more.

One of the best games ever released on the Saturn! I played this game obsessively when it was released!

The 32 bit era was such a golden age for RPGSs! Thanks a lot for sharing that link. I must play that soon! I’m just about done with my SNES Enix trilogy play through. Just gotta play terranigma. So after that it’s on to DF2. I love DF1. So thanks for this info because I kept hearing mixed reviews on 2.

I must confess Xygor, I've been consuming your content for weeks now and i didn't subscribe until this video. I guess i was on the fence, but this is some quality content!

Oh, do I remember when I first heard about Dragon Force II! I was scrolling through KZfaq one day, and there was this video asking if it was the best RPG ever, and that the video would play in 30 minutes. Ah, memories...

Thanks for this. My history with the genre and this game series is identical to yours. While I have the patch and game in the physical, I haven't played it yet due to life. But I am so glad that many of these classics are being translated these days for us to relive the glory days and more.

Awesome review! Just found your channel and I've subscribed-- your videos and especially reviews are terrific.

This makes me think a lot of a game called Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusades for Xbox, I imagine they were actually kind of inspired on this.

Lol holy crap i didnt know this existed !!!! Thanks for this

This is just great. I’m a long time avid gamer and somehow DF2 escaped my knowledge! I can’t wait to DL the patches version on my Satiator and play it! Your channel is really nice.

With these older, more unknown titles that you highlight I'd love to hear more about overall playability in the modern era of gaming, how the quality of life stacks up and whether it's worth seeking out with comparisons to some more modern RPGs/Strategy/Tactics games etc. Love the video -- thanks for the unique curation as always Xygor!

Oh man, i had completely forgotten about the English translation! I've only recently been getting into Saturn imports and wouldn't mind adding Dragon Force II. I really need to replay Dragon Force as well, it's been yeeeeeeears. Shame Riglord Saga/Mysteria/Blazing Heroes's sequel hasn't gotten a translation. While not the best game, it did scratch that Shining Force-style itch.

I remember knowing this game was a Japanese exclusive and my older brother renting it for our Saturn along with X-Men vs. Street Fighter at some point, as the local store we'd get games from would get a lot of imports. Not being able to understand Japanese, it was difficult to play. I'd have my brother just take me into a battle and try to figure it out, but eventually would just go back and play the first game for the nth time. I didn't realize there was a translation for this, so naturally I'm gonna have to try this out in the near future.

The characters look like they were designed by Nobuteru Yuki!

Never knew part 2 existed before. Dragon Force 1 was dope and I sadly never beat it before selling my collection. Miss my sega stuff. Good video, thanks for the review.

Sometimes 'more of the same' is exactly what we want from a sequel I wish more game series did that for a few games before messing everything up trying the reinvent the wheel!

i belive to have even more awareness of how great you doing this video is. You should have put that it was fan translated and unreleased in the US in the title(rather then your regular title). i love that you helped me find these games and DF2 is awesome even though i played it for the first time in 2021. Ogre battle will always be the best though

Dragon Force was amazing to play!! It was a treat going through every story. As for strategy, I would just spam dragon crests lol. Against samurai, just have more dragons or weaken with another general first, then dragon-em. I watched at least one story of the second game years ago, but I had no idea this game existed back in the day. Your video inspires me to watch a couple play throughs! The story arc's are a great feature to the game.

This game's original subtitle was Sonic Firestorm. :D Please throw eggs at my house.

Also, I don’t understand why no clone of this game ever came out. This game style is 100% unique and there is nothing like it. I would love to see an independent developer take the concept of it and expand a bit without compromising what made the Original so good.

I wonder if Dragon Force I and II will be re-released/remastered/remade for modern gaming platforms, complete with English or Japanese text or voice options for both games? Steam owners would absolutely go nuts for those games.

Unfortunately, the original Dragon Force was overlooked by most and that was a mistake. The second game never got an official release here so I don't fault anyone for not playing it. I haven't for example...but I haven't forgotten about it.

Had no idea there was a second one! I loved the first one.

i really thank you for reminded me about this game, 100% forget about this type of game combat , now day all the Strategy like combat is all about the same, been searching a new type of strategy combat, and never did i dream to look in the past lol.

Dragon Force is one of my favorite RPGs of all time. I played it and beat it with every kingdom numerous times but I never played the second installment. I’m strongly considering patching it and playing the second one since I always wanted to play it. Great video!

I got DF 2 back in 98 and it was fun not knowing what was happening in the story. It was even better when it was patched years later.

This game seems to be better than Brigindine, a game it reminds me of by way of moving around the map, but that's not the point, no, the point is that this game is a great find if you're a fan of Ogre Battle for the PS1, or the aforementioned Brigindine, which it most closely seems.

Never knew this game had a sequel. Fun times.

Overworld map reminds me of Ogre Battle for SNES. But those massive battles? Never seen anything like that from that era!

Amazing game that really needs to see a re-release. A favorite of my brother and I. He has a tattoo of the crest and I am supposed to be getting mine also, just need to make more money lol Great review, really wish this would get a proper release, I'd even accept a mobile port if they don't do what they did with final fantasy 6 lol

I love the original Dragon force I’m sad I never got to play this

"Unfortunately, the translation patch does not translate the audio." ...Honestly I call that a win. Not only is fan VA usually superbad, but so many fan translation patches have been permanently delayed or never released at all simply because they got too ambitious and wanted to VA the whole thing.

I really enjoy your channel. Your intro music sounds so familiar to me. I know I have heard it before but I can't remember where? Please tell me what it's from. I recognize your outro music from Final Fantasy 6/3

i wonder if the kingdom under fire series was inspired by these games because it definetly reminds me of a 32 bit-era version of those games. im definetly looking forward to playing these!

never played or heard of it but the video of it looks sick

Loved the first game more than most other Saturn games and never knew there was a patch for the second. This is a blessing for us westerners. Thank god they didn’t translate the audio.

I want a game that is this + Soul Calibur III's Strategy RPG Mode.

Wish this was on ps, Xbox or pc. I would love to achievement hunt this.

1:41 I'm guessing something got messed up translating this portrait from an illustration into pixel art because geez

I loved this game

Happen to have the manual translated?

If Dragon Force and Dragon Force 2 were put in a bundle and released for $60 on modern consoles, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Holy Shit!!! Brain fuck. I played this a thousand years ago on my friends older brothers Saturn! I went to their big ass house and played this alone forever. Fuck yeah Xybor, thanks for getting me the Name of this Fucking game!

It was unfortunate that this never made it's way across the Pacific during the 1990s. The simple truth was that the overwhelming amount of games never did get translated. I still recall how problematic it was hoping some JP game would get brought over to North America. Most never made it.

Game is pretty awesome and it carries over to the original hardware well.

I’ve heard if Dragon Force but never knew what kind of game it was. I feel like I missed out on something fantastic.

I've played through Dragon Force II several times many years ago, well before the translation patch ever existed. I don't speak much of any Japanese, but I've played through most of the big Japanese-only Saturn RPG releases usually without too much trouble. Dragon Force II is one of the easier ones, the only real difficulty was having to memorize the different Japanese characters that represented different troop types. Because this game will punish you if you send the wrong troop types into a battle. As for the game, I really enjoyed it, and it did improve upon a few things compared to the first one with more special attacks, more troop types, and the ability to have 2 types for each general. However, the thing that still makes me prefer part 1 is that I prefer its sprite art style a bit more, and part 2 had an annoying repretative amount of battles in those caves with almost indistinguishable goblin armies.

Great looking game!

Never played Dragon Force series. It looks çool. Does having so many sprites on the screen at once cause slow down?

Is it possible to play this on PC, and if so how?

I would of gave anything to play this game at the time. Loved dragon force. A shame I cant get it workin well now a days.

THIS GAME LOOKS SWEET AS FKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!! OMG

YES!

There was a sequel?!

Do u know a way to run it on aethersx2 on android.

I have always wanted to play this game.i own the Japanese version and I hope I can patch it on my Pollymega

If I remember this needs a strong walk-through God I think I couldn't even get in battle

There was a second one?!?!!!!?!!!

Yes

How to get a copy of this? I was so disappointed when the 2nd game was never released to the U.S.

Overlooked!? Dragon force was my favorite for a long time. Uryll was my first crush... how was I to get an English copy?

This remind me of Fire Emblem. Must be my imagination.

*MAN, NO ONE MAKES GAMES WITH THIS MUCH LEVEL OF DETAIL. THIS IS WHAT MOST GAME DEVELOPERS LACK THESE DAYS, PASSION.*

Dragon Force was one of those games I played and really wish they expanded upon the system and ironed out a few of the annoying little flaws, but sadly there's not any games that I know of that play like it.

*stares* Its 2D Total War.

Blazing heros

That nes classic link has a pic of a ps4 controller.

If I could only buy one game which would you recommend? Dragon Force or Dragon Force 2?

Porque diabos a Sega não relança esses jogos dela ou dá continuidade?

Never even heard of the first Dragon Force, if I am going to be honest....

😮😮😮

What are the odds of a switch remaster collection??? Switch is getting pretty aggressive with the remaster, lol!

I played the shyt out of dragon force series. Its one of the reason why i bought sega saturn and not playstation then. The main reason was due to lagrisser.

As a huge fan of the original Dragon Force, I honestly don't care much for its sequel. While it does streamline certain aspects of the original and add some good features to the combat, ultimately I take issue with how the game all but entirely removes the platoon movements of the original as well as how the difficulty lies mostly in the truly tedious caverns. Where the original game would throw you into an overworld full of action that you had to make sense of, the sequel is barren and even railroads you into moving along a predetermined path. This makes the game much less variable, and not just between different playthroughs, either. Taking over the map minus the caverns is ludicrously easy as a result, which really kills the feeling of accomplishment of uniting the continent compared to the original. Then you have the caverns, which are easily the single worst aspect of the game. They are truly a chore to complete even when you have high level officers due to the enemies locking your skills. You just sit, wait for all their troops to die, then run the clock until draw and send out a ranged unit to chip away at the enemy officer. I can't think of an experience more antithetical to what made the original so great than this. I think the development team focused too much on the slightly annoying aspects of the original and not enough on actually improving upon what it did well. The sequel feels incomplete to me as a result and I now see why Working Designs didn't bother localizing it back in the day. On a side note, if you want another Dragon Force esque game, 100 Swords for the Dreamcast is worth trying.

Not sure if you're into feedback, but something about your videos all feels extremely same-y. It could be how your voice is monotone or you perhaps script your videos in the same way, but it feels like I'm watching the exact same video every time lol

Overlooked? Pppfff..... Used Saturns aren't terribly expensive but try finding a working copy of the game you can actually afford. Even emulation is a pain because most of the downloads are corrupted.

Game was never released in usa so obviously it was overlooked duh this isn't news

Working Designs ruined a lot of games sadly with bad translations and making gameplay worse. I used to think they were awesome, but if you look into it they were not.