Panzer Dragoon Zwei
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| System(s): Sega Saturn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer: Sega CS, Team Andromeda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supporting companies: Sega Digital Media[1] (audio) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distributor: Ecofilmes (PT), Tec Toy (BR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (3 tracks) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peripherals supported: 3D Control Pad, Mission Stick, Shuttle Mouse, Saturn Backup Memory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre: Dramatic Shooting (ドラマティックシューティング)[2], Shooting[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Panzer Dragoon Zwei (パンツァードラグーン ツヴァイ), also known as Panzer Dragoon II and Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, is an "on-rails" shoot 'em up game released exclusively for the Sega Saturn. It was the second Panzer Dragoon game released but it is a prequel of the series. It was developed by Team Andromeda, one of Sega's internal development studios.
Contents
Story
The game is set prior to the original Panzer Dragoon against the backdrop of a war between the Empire led by its sixth Emperor and the nation of Meccania over remnants of the Ancient Age. Jean-Luc Lundi lives in a superstitious village where mutant coolias are killed as unlucky omens. Lundi defies the village tradition by adopting a mutant coolia with wings and a glowing green throat, naming it Lagi. After Lagi is full grown, Lundi takes the coolia out to try to get him to fly. While Lundi takes Lagi out, an automated Ancient Age ship called Shelcoof destroys Lundi's village. Lagi fires at Shelcoof with lasers from his mouth, the trademark attack of dragons from the Ancient Age. Lundi and Lagi pursue Shelcoof in parallel with the forces of Meccania, who seek to control Shelcoof.
Gameplay
The game is a rail shooter like its predecessor. The player controls a dragon, Lagi, and its rider, Lundi, through an aiming reticle that can be moved over the whole screen with the D-Pad, with enemies appearing across four quadrants tracked by an on-screen radar. The dragon follows the reticle, allowing the player to dodge obstacles and enemy fire. Lagi initially cannot fly and runs along the ground in the early stages instead. The player can pan the field of view by moving the reticle with 
and 
or can rotate the view 90 degrees at a time with 
and 
. Though the game is on rails and largely follows predetermined paths, stages now have branching paths at certain points, with the player's choice affecting the scenery as well as the enemy types and bosses that the player encounters.
Enemies can be defeated with Lundi's handgun, which is fired by pressing 
, 
, or 
, or Lagi's homing lasers, which can lock on up to eight enemies by holding , , or while moving the reticle over them. A meter fills as enemies are shot down; when it is green, the player can use the berserk attack, a rain of lasers from Lagi that targets all enemies on screen until the bar is emptied, by pressing 
, 
, or 
.
The dragon's health is indicated by a bar in the corner of the screen. It takes damage from enemies and from obstacles. The dragon has part of its health restored at the beginning of each stage. The game ends if the dragon runs out of health, but it can be continued from the beginning of the current stage as long as the player has credits remaining. Each stage is scored based on enemy kill ratio, damage taken, the number of continues used, and the time taken to complete each section. During the game, the dragon unlocks alternate forms based on the routes taken and points accrued. There are six forms available, with a final form unlocking for the final boss.
After completing the game, Pandra's Box is unlocked, which is an extras menu that gives players the ability to alter dragon statistics, change the game difficulty, access new weapons, alter or replay individual levels, and replay cutscenes. To unlock everything in Pandra's Box, the player must have a total number of clears of at least 20, a total playtime of at least 30 hours, a best shot down ratio of 100%, or a save game from Panzer Dragoon Saga saved to the Saturn's internal memory.
Stages
| Episode 1 | |
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| Episode 2 | |
| Episode 3 | |
| Episode 4 | |
| Episode 5 | |
| Episode 6 | |
| Last Episode | |
Production credits
- Team Andromeda Presents
- 原案/設定: 二木 幸生, 楠木 学
- 美術監督: 吉田 謙太郎
- システムプログラマー: 竹下 英敏
- メインプランナー: 山田 勝彦
- マップ構成/エネミー設定: 山田 勝彦, 興津 禎之
- ボス設定: 興津 禎之, 菊池 正義
- メインプログラマー: 須藤 順一
- プログラマー: 中西 仁, 二川目 真, 堀田 榮治, 山崎 朝矢, 山崎 浩, 安原 祐二, 山尻 立男, 三田 徹
- テクニカルディレクター: 上村 裕
- メインデザイナー: 吉田 謙太郎
- キャラクター/モデル制作: 吉田 謙太郎, 岩出 敬, 植田 隆太
- 背景モデル制作: 北村 操佳, 三浦 岳彦
- 背景グラフィック制作: 角井 剛
- エフェクト制作: 松尾 純
- オープニング制作: 楠木 学
- エンディング制作: 吉田 謙太郎, 岩沢 一之, 横田 克己
- メインタイトルデザイン: 岩出 敬
- ジャケットCG/エンディングイラストレーション: 横田 克己
- 音響監督/効果音: 澤田 朋伯
- 音楽: 和智 弥生, 白津 順子, 中川 輝彦, 澤田 朋伯
- レコーディングエンジニア: 成田 尊, 町田 直幸
- レコーディングディレクター: 柴田 文孝
- サウンドプログラマー: 宮沢 敦務
- CV
- Special Gratitude: CSプロモーションチーム, CSパブリシティチーム
- Special thanks to: 石渡 爾奈, 掘澤 真弓, 前川 司郎, 細川 一毅, 奥成 洋輔
- 監督: 近藤 智宏
- 制作著作: (株)セガ・エンタープライゼス
- Manual: Yoshihiro Sakuta
- Producer/Director: Tomohiro Kondo
- Art Director: Kentaro Yoshida
- Main Programmer: Junichi Suto
- Sound Director/Sound Effects: Tomonori Sawada
- Original Designer/Setting: Yukio Futatsugi, Manabu Kusunoki
- Programmers: Hitoshi Nakanishi, Shin Futakawame, Eiji Horita, Asaya Yamazaki, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yuji Yasuhara, Tatsuo Yamajiri, Tohru Mita
- System Programmer: Hidetoshi "Wiz" Takeshita
- Main Planner: Katsuhiko Yamada
- Map/Enemy Setting: Katsuhiko Yamada, Yoshiyuki Okitsu
- Boss Setting: Yoshiyuki Okitsu, Masayoshi Kikuchi
- Technical Director: Yutaka Kamimura
- Main Designer: Kentaro Yoshida
- Character Model Production: Kentaro Yoshida, Takashi Iwade, Ryuta Ueda
- Background Model Production: Misaka Kitamura, Takehiko Miura, Tsuyoshi Tsunoi
- Visual Effects: Jun Matsuo
- CG Production: Manabu Kusunoki, Kentaro Yoshida, Kazuyuki Iwasawa, Katsumi Yokota
- Title Logo Designer: Takashi Iwade
- Ending CG Illustrartion: Katsumi Yokota
- Music Composers: Yayoi Wachi, Junko Shiratsu, Teruhiko Nakagawa, Tomonori Sawada
- Recording Engineers: Tatsutoshi Narita, Naoyuki Machida
- Recording Director: Fumitaka Shibata
- Sound Programmer: Atsumu Miyazawa
- Character Voice: Shigeru Nakahara, Ryuzaburo Ohtomo
- Special Thanks: Jina Ishiwatari, Kazuki Hosokawa, Mayumi Horisawa, Yosuke Okunari, Shiro Maekawa
- Created By: Team Andromeda
- Produced & Published By: Sega Enterprises. Ltd.
- Producer: Bill Person
- Product Manager: Seth Gerson
- Lead Tester: Dave Dodge
- Product Specialist: Clint Dyer
- Assistant Lead Testers: Amy Albertson, Matthew Ironside, Kingsley Sur
- Testers: Byram Abbott, Jack Amato, Jeremy Caine, Roger DeForest, Atom Ellis, Trish Gray, Jeff Hedges, Christina Hurley, John Jansen, Darin Johnston, Damien Kato, Lloyd Kinoshita, Mark Lindstrom, Tony Lynch, Abe Navarro, Lance Nelson, Rob Prideaux, Todd Slepian, Donovan Soto, Mark Subotnick, Zenon Thornton, Fernando Valderrama, David Wood
- Special Thanks: Michael Latham, Joyce Takakura, Greg Becksted, Erik Wahlberg, Eric Quakenbush, Jef Feltman, Larry Loth, Willie Mancero, Laura Schaldach, Doria Sanchez, Diane Fornasier, Dante Anderson, Big Tim Dunley, Neil "Baku" Cohen
- Manual: John McClain
Magazine articles
- Main article: Panzer Dragoon Zwei/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
- Main article: Panzer Dragoon Zwei/Promotional material.
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Technical information
- Main article: Panzer Dragoon Zwei/Technical information.
ROM dump status
| System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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494,477,424 | CD-ROM (EU) | 81022-50 V1.000 | ||||||||||
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475,308,624 | 1996-02-27 | CD-ROM (JP) | GS-9049 V1.001 | |||||||||
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Extra content
This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.
| Folder / File | Type | Size | description |
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| OMAKE.TXT | TXT | 3,843 | Warning message |
| README.TXT | TXT | 27,814 | Messages from the developers. |
| WORLD.TXT | TXT | 8,638 | Warning message |
Save data
The game makes use of the Saturn's internal battery back-up as well as the Saturn Backup Memory to save progress through the game as well as unlock extras.
| Name | Comment | Blocks | Description |
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| PANDRA_ZWEI | (Rank) | 8 |
External links
References
- ↑ http://www.wave-master.com/wm/works/index.html (Wayback Machine: 2004-05-19 20:54)
- ↑ File:Panzerzwei sat jp backcover.jpg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/segasaturn/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-30 22:53)
- ↑ http://www.sega.co.jp:80/sega/p_cafe/DB/09049/09049.html (Wayback Machine: 1998-12-06 07:59)
- ↑ http://sega-saturn.com/saturn/software/pd2.htm (Wayback Machine: 1996-12-15 06:19)
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.sega/c/X_fMSk0TWDE/m/48YuZQr_pMsJ
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.sega/c/J4Znml1DpDc/m/j6B50Ae7IeAJ
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 VideoGames, "May 1996" (US; 1996-04-23), page 61
- ↑ Computer Trade Weekly, "" (UK; 1996-05-06), page 20
- ↑ File:LeicesterMercury UK 1996-04-27 16.jpg
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-09), page 61
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Edge, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-03), page 68
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Computer & Video Games, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-04-12), page 66
- ↑ File:TopSecret_PL_51.pdf, page 37
- ↑ File:Panzer Dragoon Zwei JP Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ @Yoshihiro39ta on Twitter
- ↑ File:Panzer Dragoon Zwei US Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Panzerzwei sat us manual.pdf, page 14
- ↑ 576 KByte, "Június 1996" (HU; 1996-xx-xx), page 24
- ↑ Consoles +, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 84
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 32
- ↑ Famitsu, "1996-03-29" (JP; 1996-03-15), page 1
- ↑ Fun Generation, "05/96" (DE; 1996-04-10), page 45
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 5: May 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 14
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 9 No. 6 June 1996" (US; 1996-05-04), page 52
- ↑ GamePro, "June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 66
- ↑ Game Informer, "May 1996" (US; 1996-0x-xx), page 10
- ↑ Joypad, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 66
- ↑ Maximum, "April 1996" (UK; 1996-04-27), page 124
- ↑ Mega Force, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 68
- ↑ Mega Fun, "05/96" (DE; 1996-04-xx), page 62
- ↑ Magazina Igrushek, "7-8/1996" (RU; 1996-xx-xx), page 143
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-04-04), page 16
- ↑ Next Generation, "July 1996" (US; 1996-06-18), page 83
- ↑ neXt Level, "Juni 1996" (DE; 1996-05-15), page 12
- ↑ Player One, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 90
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 10-11" (JP; 1996-04-26), page 80
- ↑ Score, "Listopad 1996" (CZ; 1996-11-01), page 110
- ↑ Secret Service, "Lipiec/Sierpień 1996" (PL; 1996-08-01), page 65
- ↑ Sega Power, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-05-09), page 52
- ↑ Sega Pro, "August 1996" (UK; 1996-06-xx), page 20
- ↑ Świat Gier Komputerowych, "10/1996" (PL; 1996-xx-xx), page 1
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-04-24), page 70
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 11
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-05 (1996-03-22)" (JP; 1996-03-08), page 227
- ↑ Sonic the Comic, "16 August 1996" (UK; 1996-08-07), page 10
- ↑ Strana Igr, "May/Iyun 1996" (RU; 1996-xx-xx), page 136
- ↑ Total Saturn, "Volume One Issue Four" (UK; 1996-12-29), page 42
- ↑ Ultra Player, "Juillet/Août 1996" (FR; 1996-07-02), page 78
- ↑ Video Games, "5/96" (DE; 1996-04-24), page 90
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Main page | Comparisons | Hidden content | Magazine articles | Video coverage | Reception | Promotional material
Music: (1996) | |
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Panzer Dragoon (1995) | Panzer Dragoon Zwei (1996) | Panzer Dragoon I & II (1996) | Panzer Dragoon Saga (1998) |
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Panzer Dragoon (1996) | Panzer Dragoon: Remake (2020) |
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Panzer Dragoon Mini (1996) |
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Panzer Dragoon (1997) |
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Panzer Dragoon Orta (2002) |
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Panzer Dragoon: Remake (2020) | Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake (20xx) |
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Panzer Dragoon: Remake (2020) |
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Panzer Dragoon Zwei Original Arrange Album "Alternative Elements" (1996) | Panzer Dragoon Original Sound Track (Remastered) (2006) | |
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