The most striking characteristics of the originals (to my youthful mind at the time, at least) were the cool ruins/architecture and the music. It was such a surreal world and I wanted to take the camera off the rails and explore it. The new version takes all the mystery of those ruins and amps it up a thousandfold. I love what I see.
I am convinced that Saga is regarded higher than it otherwise would be because of reasons that has very little to do with the quality of the game itself. I am not going to bother arguing, but there is a sort of elitism when it comes to Panzer Dragoon -- especially Saga -- much like many other cult creations.
The only thing that strikes me as PD-esque is the battleship at the end of the trailer, which really owes all to the original design. I may feel different about the final product or even forthcoming media, but this first trailer is generic fantasy with a familiar SEGA character.
Personally I found Orta's version of the Panzer Dragoon universe quite dilluted compared to the intent of the previous games, but even that, two generations of hardware ago, was in many (not all) cases more polished and artistic and alive than the remake appears so far.Barely any SEGA involvement it seems, yeah. I mean I almost thought they bought it off SEGA for peanuts but then noticed the SEGA logo in tiny letters at the bottom of the last trailer screen.
Look at how this probably equally low budget and even more low-poly and low-fi game looks so much more alive. Why couldn't they do it like this? Look at that thing's wings animate!
I don't see that kind of artistic vision from these guys, very by the numbers, hopefully it will be solid enough but Panzer Dragoon deserves better.
Okay if this remake can lead to that then I hope it does well somehow.
