Wachenröder
Wachenröder is a strategy RPG that was released in the late years of the Sega Saturn, and probably the last of its kind. It met with poor sales – in part due to the system’s declining popularity – and was soon to be forgotten by the public in spite of its initial critical acclaim, which made an already unlikely localization impossible. It’s very upsetting that such a game would tank, because the guys behind it were kind of a dream team. It brought several major figures together including Yasuyuki Ueda and Yoshitoshi Abe (of Serial Experiments Lain fame), art deco-anime artist Range Murata (popular for his work on Last Exile), established composers Satoshi Miyashita (Wings of Thunder) and Takayuki Negishi (Tengai Maykou IV) as well as the founding member of the legendary progressive rock band King Crimson, Ian McDonald, as surprising and unlikely as it may sound.
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