Panzer Dragoon Zwei

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Panzer Dragoon Zwei
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega CS, Team Andromeda
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (3 tracks)
Peripherals supported: 3D Control Pad, Mission Stick, Shuttle Mouse
Genre: Dramatic Shooting (ドラマティックシューティング), Shooting
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1996-03-22 ¥6,800 (7,004)6,800e GS-9049 US 1996-04-17 $59.9959.99 81022 EU 1996-05-10 81022-50 DE 1996-05-10 81022-50 PT 1996 STJSE0206 UK 1996-05-10 £44.9944.99 81022-50 GR 199x PL 1996-05-10 199zł199 AU 199x FPAN03SSC BR 1996-06 R$64.9964.99 192146

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.

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, Pandora'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 Pandora'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
	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
  • ランディ: 中原 茂
  • 帝国皇帝: 大友 龍三郎
• 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

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In-game credits(JP)

• 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.

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In-game credits

• Producer: Bill Person
• Product Manager: Seth Gerson
• Lead Tester: Dave Dodge
• Product Specialist: Clint Dyer
• Assistant Lead Testers: Amy Albertson, Matthrew 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

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US manual

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Magazine articles

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Promotional material

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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Game Players (US) 90 №0906, p53 GamesMaster (UK) 87 №42, p58/59 Game Informer (US) 93 №37 [1] Game Informer (US) 90

	90
Based on 4 reviews

Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score 576 KByte (HU) 94 Consoles + (FR) 97 Computer & Video Games (UK) 100 Edge (UK) NTSC-J 70 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 83 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 88 Fun Generation (DE) PAL 80 GameFan (US) NTSC-U 99 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 90 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 95 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 89 Joypad (FR) 91 Maximum (UK) 100 Mega Force (FR) PAL 92 Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-J 87 Magazina Igrushek (RU) 99 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 92 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 75 neXt Level (DE) 90 Player One (FR) 95 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 85 Score (CZ) 80 Secret Service (PL) 99 Sega Power (UK) PAL 80 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 86 Świat Gier Komputerowych (PL) 99 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL 95 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 92 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 97 Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL 93 Strana Igr (RU) 73 Total Saturn (UK) PAL 76 Ultra Player (FR) 100 Video Games (DE) NTSC-J 87 VideoGames (US) 90

	90
Based on 35 reviews

Panzer Dragoon Zwei

Saturn, JP
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Saturn, PT
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Saturn, PT (4,990$)
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	494,477,424		CD-ROM (EU)	81022-50 V1.000
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	475,308,624	1996-02-27	CD-ROM (JP)	GS-9049 V1.001
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	493,814,160		CD-ROM (US)	81022 V1.000
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1996-02-05					Page

Extra content

This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.

Saturn (JP) Extra files

Folder / File	Type	Size	description
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.

Panzer Dragoon Zwei Save Data

Name	Comment	File Size
PANDRA_ZWEI	(Rank)	8

External links

• Sega of America webpage: Saturn
• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Saturn