![]() ![]() ![]() Kohran, you might want to be careful with that.įujishima Kousuke, of Ah! My Goddess! and You're Under Arrest! fame, handles the character designs. However, this can be forgiven given the age of the game and the fact that they don't require the extra Saturn MPEG card. By today's standards, they aren't all that great, as they are cropped to fit the adventure screen window and get slightly grainy and pixellated at times. ![]() The game is also well interspersed with anime and CG cut scenes, which do much to bring the action to life and keep the player interested. Somewhat dated-looking, the sprites are clean and simplistic, animate smoothly, and are enough to get the Portion, pre-rendered sprites of the Koubu and the demon hordes battle on a vast landscape while The graphics in this half of the game are made up of the colourful, large detailed sprites of the characters set against many varied and interesting backgrounds. Is divided into two parts, with the window (graphical interface) taking up three quarters of the screen and During the dating-adventure part of the game, the screen Still stand out in today's polygon-cluttered world. Though more than three years old, the gorgeous graphics Graphically, Sakura Taisen is a wonder to behold. And you turn out to be the leader of the Assault Team after all. Their secret weapon against the dark tide that threatens Teito is the Koubu, essentially a steam-powered mech. The truth is soon revealed: the Imperial Musical Drama Group is nothing but a front for the Imperial Splendour Assault Team - after all, the best place to hide something is in plain sight. To top it off, your job consists mainly of clipping tickets for eager show-goers! Or so it seems. Imagine your dismay when you find out the TeikokuKagekidan are actually the Imperial Musical Drama (Opera) Group (it's a Japanese pun), a band of young girls from ages 9 to 19 who perform on stage, led by a drunken old has-been Lieutenant General who just happens to be your commander. Naturally, you feel more than a little ecstatic that your talent has been recognised, and are eager and willing to serve and protect Teito (the Imperial capital) with your life if necessary. ![]() You receive a letter informing you of your appointment as the commander of the TeikokuKagekidan Hanagumi, or Imperial Splendour Assault Team, Flower Division, a top secret strike force. You are Oogami Ichirou, a fresh graduate from the military academy at the top of your class. (Gainax's EVA: Girlfriend of Steel and Konami's Dancing Blade spring to mind.) With its charming mix of turn-based mecha strategy and tastefully done (read: non-hentai) dating elements, it captured the coveted "Game of the Year" award at CESA 1996, several other categories such as "Main" and "Supporting Characters of the Year," and the hearts of a legion of devoted fans.Įver wanted to be the hero in an anime? To be the one who pilots the kick-ass mech whups seven shades of crap out of the unwitting demon legions and enemy mecha units wins admiration from your superiors, team members, and enemies and, most importantly, gets the girl? ST allows you to do all that, without succumbing to the repetitive "watch sequence, press button, watch sequence, press button, save" pitfall of other interactive anime games. Sakura Taisen, translated as Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Wars, was released in 1996 upon an unsuspecting Japanese crowd and soon whipped up a fervor of excitement, becoming the "must-have" game of the Gaming Intelligence Agency - Sega Saturn - Sakura Taisen ![]()
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