Suddenly, dozens of glowing beams of light find their way down to their targets causing instant destruction all around. Just as Edge finds himself with nowhere to turn, a sharp piercing cry echoes through the darkness. As he comes to his senses, he finds himself surrounded by a herd of creatures with 20-foot-long scythes for arms. At the bottom of the ravine Edge awakens in a pool of water, somehow unhurt by his descent. After witnessing the death of the people he was hired to protect, Edge confronts his attackers only to be hurled down a chasm to his death. It is at this point that Edge finds himself caught in the middle of a rebellion. While on watch, an emergency arises that unearths a most unique artifact: a girl encased in stone. The main character, Edge, is a guard at one of the Empire's excavation sites.
Panzer Dragoon Saga picks up where the first game left off, many years into the future (Panzer Dragoon Zwei was a prequel). In a progression that is at once surprising, logical, and welcome, Team Andromeda has taken its heralded series of shooters and turned it into a full-blown RPG - a progression that only seemed natural, considering the increasing complexity of the storyline and the questions that had been left unanswered.
Possibly the most striking feature of the Panzer Dragoon series was the CG sequences that slowly revealed the storyline to the gamer, while drawing him into the Panzer world. Panzer Dragoon Zwei took it a step further by offering improved graphics, alternate paths, and a growth system that influenced the type of dragon you rode based on the difficulty of the course as well as your skill in combat. With characters and monsters originally taken from designs by French artist Moebius, Panzer was chock-full of exotic locales, truly unusual enemies, bio-organic warships, and boss encounters so epic (as in Star Wars epic) it practically shut the door on the 16-bit shooter. Taking its inspiration from the classic concept of a boy and his dog, Panzer Dragoon took the shooter genre to the next level with its unique design and captivating gameplay. It was a fairly straightforward shooter, but a shooter that enveloped you in a world you'd never seen before. Sure, there was the original Virtua Fighter and the lackluster Daytona USA, but the game that first revealed the true potential of the Sega Saturn was Panzer Dragoon. It's almost fitting, in the twilight of the Saturn's years, that it should end as it began.
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