Dark Savior
Some games change the world because they were truly fun and revolutionary. Some games change it because the evolution of hardware and gaming trends matched up with great marketing. Some games simply never had a chance, and their innovations are only remembered by fansites and retro game fans. Many amazing Sega games fall in the third category. Sega’s missteps in the mid-and-late ‘90s resulted in more than their exit from the hardware-manufacturing world – large parts of its games library is at worst forgotten and at best marginalized. Dark Savior is one of those Sega games. The banal box art masks one of the most innovative games of its time. Most importantly, it’s an early game of postmodern storytelling, one in which most players will never unearth the game’s true narrative. Dark Savior is an isometric action RPG/platformer developed by Climax Studios, the same team behind Landstalker for the Genesis, with multiple scenarios to play through and wholly unique gameplay.
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