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{{stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', known as '''''Gungriffon: The Eurasian Conflict''''' (ガングリフォン) in Japan is a first person mech shooter for the [[Sega Saturn]].  
 
{{stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', known as '''''Gungriffon: The Eurasian Conflict''''' (ガングリフォン) in Japan is a first person mech shooter for the [[Sega Saturn]].  
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Developed by Game Arts, Gungriffon series, similar to Square Enix's Front Mission franchise focuses on realism and authentic real life politics rather than over the top visuals and overly powerful vehicles, as is common in other Japanese mecha anime series.
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After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gungriffon became a hot topic among Japan as a game that predicted the future, as several missions in the game take place in Russian occupied Ukraine. https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/37451
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==Story and Premise==
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Following information is based on a series of articles published in Sega Saturn Magazine before the release of Gungriffon II.
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At the beginning of the 21st Century, majority of Earth's farmable land is lost due to conflicts and abnormal weather patterns, causing a worldwide food crisis. United States, suffering from economical problems, abolishes security treaties it had made with overseas countries and instead establishes "AFTA", an alliance of North and South American countries and enters an isolationist stance. Europe and CIS countries band together to form "PEU" while Japan, now without the protection of US security umbrella, forms "APC" with other Asian and Oceanic nations. Several African nations also come together to form "OAU".
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PEU and APC are competing for influence in OAU's few developmental areas, due to the loss of American market and tensions flare soon enough. When Chinse-led APC forces in Libya launch a surprise attack on PEU forces in Egypt during a training excercise, World War III breaks out between these two superpowers. When China pressures Japan into sending forces overseas, Japan amends its constitution and forms Japanese Foreign Legion, an expeditonary force consisting of mostly foreign nationals to send overseas and prevent the deployment of Japanese Self-Defence Forces out of the country.
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Main land weapons of the conflict are AWGSs, which stands for "Armored Walking Gun System", basically large manned robots with much better offensive capabilities and mobility compared to tanks and able to travel rough terrain. Trump card of the conflict is HIGH-MACS, an AWGS jointly developed by Japan and US before the war. HIGH-MACS is capable of limited gliding and low altitude flight, giving it performance of not only a main battle tank but also limited capabilities of an attack helicopter.
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Player is a member of the 501st (and later 504th) Mobile Anti-Tank Squadron "Griffon", pilotting a HIGH-MACS.
  
 
==Gameplay==
 
==Gameplay==

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Gungriffon
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Sega (US, Europe), Game Arts (Japan)
Developer:
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (37 tracks)
Peripherals supported: Movie Card, Saturn Backup Memory
Genre: 3D Shooting[1], Shooting[2]

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Saturn
JP 		¥5,800 (5,974)5,800e[3] T-4502G
Sega Rating: All Ages
Sega Saturn
JP
(Satakore) 		¥2,8002,800 T-4509G
Sega Rating: All Ages
Sega Saturn
US 		$59.9959.99[5] 81046
ESRB: Teen
Sega Saturn
EU 		MK81046-50
ELSPA: 11+ OK
Sega Saturn
DE 		MK81046-50
USK: 16
Sega Saturn
PT
Sega Saturn
UK 		£44.9944.99[6] MK81046-50
ELSPA: 11+ OK
Sega Saturn
PL
Sega Saturn
AU 		FGUN08SSC
OFLC: G

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Gungriffon, known as Gungriffon: The Eurasian Conflict (ガングリフォン) in Japan is a first person mech shooter for the Sega Saturn.

Developed by Game Arts, Gungriffon series, similar to Square Enix's Front Mission franchise focuses on realism and authentic real life politics rather than over the top visuals and overly powerful vehicles, as is common in other Japanese mecha anime series.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gungriffon became a hot topic among Japan as a game that predicted the future, as several missions in the game take place in Russian occupied Ukraine. https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/37451

Story and Premise

Following information is based on a series of articles published in Sega Saturn Magazine before the release of Gungriffon II.

At the beginning of the 21st Century, majority of Earth's farmable land is lost due to conflicts and abnormal weather patterns, causing a worldwide food crisis. United States, suffering from economical problems, abolishes security treaties it had made with overseas countries and instead establishes "AFTA", an alliance of North and South American countries and enters an isolationist stance. Europe and CIS countries band together to form "PEU" while Japan, now without the protection of US security umbrella, forms "APC" with other Asian and Oceanic nations. Several African nations also come together to form "OAU".

PEU and APC are competing for influence in OAU's few developmental areas, due to the loss of American market and tensions flare soon enough. When Chinse-led APC forces in Libya launch a surprise attack on PEU forces in Egypt during a training excercise, World War III breaks out between these two superpowers. When China pressures Japan into sending forces overseas, Japan amends its constitution and forms Japanese Foreign Legion, an expeditonary force consisting of mostly foreign nationals to send overseas and prevent the deployment of Japanese Self-Defence Forces out of the country.

Main land weapons of the conflict are AWGSs, which stands for "Armored Walking Gun System", basically large manned robots with much better offensive capabilities and mobility compared to tanks and able to travel rough terrain. Trump card of the conflict is HIGH-MACS, an AWGS jointly developed by Japan and US before the war. HIGH-MACS is capable of limited gliding and low altitude flight, giving it performance of not only a main battle tank but also limited capabilities of an attack helicopter.

Player is a member of the 501st (and later 504th) Mobile Anti-Tank Squadron "Griffon", pilotting a HIGH-MACS.

Gameplay

History

Development

During development Gungriffon was known as 3D Robot Shooting (3Dロボットシューティング)[7].

Sega of America originally intended to release the US version of the game under a new title, Iron Rain. Without naming names, Working Designs alludes in its manual of the localised PlayStation 2 sequel, Gungriffon Blaze, that it convinced Sega's Japanese arm to force the name back to Gungriffon so as not to confuse customers with Iron Storm (that and the new title "sucked really hard")[8]. Working Designs were not involved in the Saturn version of Gungriffon, but had a strong working relationship with Game Arts at the time, seeing prototypes of the technology at Winter CES 1995[8].

Legacy

In Japan, the game was followed by Gungriffon II.

Production credits

  • Director: 宮路 武
  • Main programmer: 浜田 憲一
  • Sub Programmer: 金井 秀樹, 増渕 利道, 小山 洋幸
  • Game Data Making: 原田 修, 浜田 憲一, 庭野 健一
  • Model Animator: 原田 修, 金井 秀樹
  • Visual Coordinator: 高橋 秀信
  • Texture Drawing: 迫 章久, 里 大樹, 横川 憲太郎
  • Background Design: 迫 章久, 横川 憲太郎
  • Special Effect Making: 里 大樹
  • Visual Designer: 安住 政敏
  • Visual Design Assistant: 迫 章久
  • Sound System Programmer: 上条 有
  • Sound Effect Programmer: 松田 明男
  • Sound Treatment & Strategies: 西 隆宏
  • TrueMotion S Data Making: 増渕 利道
  • Situational Designer: 岡田 厚利
  • A.W.G.S. Design: Bee-Craft, 山田 隆博, 阿久津 潤一, 広部 滋
  • 3D Modeling: 柳川 渉
  • Opening & Ending CG: 株式会社リンクス, 倉澤 幹隆, 平野 善久, 西井 育生, 竹中 隆弘, 斎藤 紀生, 大谷 謙, 名越 輝幸, 斎藤 香, 江崎 達也, 田中 将史, 海亀事務所, 林 弘幸, イクイティ エンタテインメント, 鈴木 慎二
  • All Songs Composed & Arranged: 武内 基朗
  • Recording & Mixing Engineer: 小林 敦
  • Manipulator: 小西 輝男
  • Sound Production: Two Five, 溝口 功, 高野 聡
  • Narration Recording: ユーメックススタジオ, 猪股 一彦, 加園 稔
  • Narrator: 野田 圭一
  • Marking Design: ㈲戦船
  • Data Research: 長村 琢哉, 柏木 朗, 早川 真吾
  • Special Thanks for: 須永 有三, 柏木 朗, 吉田 聡士, 大畑 和幸, 岡野 崇宏, 加藤 孝視, 池谷 昌彦, 松田 充弘
  • Sales: 岡部 利香, 菅谷 由美, 小川 陽平
  • Producer: 内田 敏幸
  • Executive Producer: 宮路 洋一
  • Presented by: Game Arts
Source:
In-game credits (JP)


Source:
US manual
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Magazine articles

Main article: Gungriffon/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Gungriffon Saturn JP Flyer.pdf

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JP flyer
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-04: "1996-04 (1996-03-08)" (1996-02-23)
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-05: "1996-05 (1996-03-22)" (1996-03-08)
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-07: "1996-07 (1996-04-26)" (1996-04-12)
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Print advert in Sega Magazin (DE) #35: "Oktober 1996" (1996-09-11)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
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Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
576 KByte (HU)
88
[10]
Consoles + (FR) NTSC
91
[11]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
50
[12]
Edge (UK) NTSC-J
50
[13]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
83
[14]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
78
[15]
Fun Generation (DE) NTSC
90
[16]
Gambler (PL)
78
[17]
GameFan (US) NTSC
93
[18]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
82
[5]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
85
[19]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
78
[20]
Joypad (FR)
90
[21]
Joypad (FR) NTSC-J
90
[22]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
84
[23]
Maximum (UK)
75
[24]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
83
[25]
Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-J
83
[26]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
88
[6]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) NTSC-J
88
[27]
neXt Level (DE) PAL
75
[28]
Player One (FR)
92
[29]
Power Up! (UK)
85
[30]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
79
[31]
Saturn+ (UK) PAL
62
[32]
Secret Service (PL)
80
[33]
Sega News (CZ)
94
[34]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
66
[35]
Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL
88
[36]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
91
[37]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
80
[38]
Total Saturn (UK) PAL
63
[39]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-J
78
[40]
VideoGames (US) NTSC-U
90
[41]
Sega Saturn
 81
Based on
34 reviews

Gungriffon

Saturn, JP
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Cover
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Spinecard
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Disc
Saturn, JP (Satakore)
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Cover
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Spinecard
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Disc
Saturn, US
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Cover
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Manual
Saturn, EU
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Cover
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Disc
Saturn, DE
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Cover
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Disc
Saturn, PT

Saturn, AU
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Cover
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Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Saturn
✔
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
550,951,296 CD-ROM (EU) MK81046-50 V1.000
Sega Saturn
✔
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
619,961,328 1996-01-31 CD-ROM (JP) T-4502G, T-4509G V1.01
Sega Saturn
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
550,953,648 CD-ROM (US) 81046 V1.010
Sega Saturn
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
1995-12-25 CD-R Page

References

  1. ↑ File:GunGriffon Saturn JP Box Back.jpg
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ss/soft_licensee2.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-10-02 10:31)
  3. ↑ File:Gungriffon Saturn JP Flyer.pdf
  4. ↑ http://sega-saturn.com/saturn/software/gg.htm (Wayback Machine: 1996-12-15 06:16)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Game Players, "Vol. 9 No. 8 August 1996" (US; 1996-07-09), page 75
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Mean Machines Sega, "August 1996" (UK; 1996-07-05), page 74
  7. ↑ File:SegaHotInformation JP 1995.pdf, page 18
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 File:GungriffonBlaze PS2 US Manual.pdf, page 26
  9. ↑ File:Gungriffon sat us manual.pdf, page 22
  10. ↑ 576 KByte, "Szeptember 1996" (HU; 1996-xx-xx), page 34
  11. ↑ Consoles +, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 100
  12. ↑ Computer & Video Games, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-06-12), page 68
  13. ↑ Edge, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-03), page 73
  14. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 22
  15. ↑ Famitsu, "1996-03-22" (JP; 1996-03-08), page 30
  16. ↑ Fun Generation, "05/96" (DE; 1996-04-10), page 55
  17. ↑ Gambler, "11/1996" (PL; 1996-xx-xx), page 1
  18. ↑ GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 5: May 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 15
  19. ↑ GamePro, "September 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 72
  20. ↑ Game Informer, "August 1996" (US; 1996-0x-xx), page 49
  21. ↑ Joypad, "Juin 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 78
  22. ↑ Joypad, "Mai 1996 (Joypad International supplement)" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 10
  23. ↑ MAN!AC, "09/96" (DE; 1996-08-14), page 70
  24. ↑ Maximum, "May 1996" (UK; 1996-05-30), page 127
  25. ↑ Mega Fun, "08/96" (DE; 1996-07-17), page 38
  26. ↑ Mega Fun, "05/96" (DE; 1996-04-xx), page 66
  27. ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-03), page 80
  28. ↑ neXt Level, "September 1996" (DE; 1996-08-14), page 80
  29. ↑ Player One, "Septembre 1996" (FR; 1996-08-29), page 94
  30. ↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, August 10, 1996" (UK; 1996-08-10), page 1
  31. ↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 10-11" (JP; 1996-04-26), page 80
  32. ↑ Saturn+, "Issue 4" (UK; 1996-10-24), page 29
  33. ↑ Secret Service, "Listopad 1996" (PL; 1996-11-01), page 64
  34. ↑ Sega News, "Říjen 1996" (CZ; 1996-xx-xx), page 8
  35. ↑ Sega Power, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-05-09), page 58
  36. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-06-20), page 72
  37. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 11
  38. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "1996-05 (1996-03-22)" (JP; 1996-03-08), page 225
  39. ↑ Total Saturn, "Volume One Issue Four" (UK; 1996-12-29), page 31
  40. ↑ Video Games, "5/96" (DE; 1996-04-24), page 94
  41. ↑ VideoGames, "September 1996" (US; 1996-08-20), page 64


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