BEFORE you all say BUT THERE IS AN ENGLISH VERSION. 1. I KNOW I'd be an idiot if I didn't know and 2. The Japanese version is cheapest. Anyway that said, is the game navigable not knowing what the person on the Radio is skawaking at me?
Myself, I can't read japanese except for a few hiragana and katakana here and there. Spoken, I do understand about 20%. However in 1998 I couldn't understand a word when I was a teenager and did manage to complete it without a guide or anything of that sort. From what I remember it was fairly straight forward. Put a fire here save a civilian there, a new area open then rinse and repeat. If you want my advice I'd say go for it. Fun game,nice visuals (for the time) and great music. Ah the memories !
I already bought it I was just wondering. Part of my Birthday Haul was This game Outrun and Nights+controller My saturn needed some love.
I'm not made of money, English versions of Bruning rangers are between $80-150 plus I'm still saving my soul for an eventual copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga or Radiant Silvergun and I still want a copy of Rockman 8 Besides I'm pretty sure Sega is going to port this to XBLA and PSN soon, I always felt like Burning Rangers should have been held off and released on Dreamcast.
I've owned the Jpn version for about eight years. The game is totally playable. There are voice commands that tell you where to go next and I hear not knowing this makes the game more difficult. I have only played the first few levels, but didn't find them so expansive that I couldn't run around a bit between discovering fires and victims and still make progress. Here's hoping you are right. In my opinion though, Burning Rangers only exists because, like NiGHTs, Sonic Team couldn't make Sonic Adventure work right with the game engine. The Gameplay and character animation is just too similar to Sonic Adventure.
Burning rangers just looks like a really really ugly Dreamcast game. Still, what Little I played of it I enjoyed. (VIa an emulator)
I could never find into it - maybe you had to play it in 1998 to like it. I think the graphics are awful and confusing, the soundtrack is awesome but the overall presentation gives me a headache. Still a nice game to own, especially in the Japanese version which comes with a small 8cm soundtrack CD.
the version I bought does indeed have the mini soundtrack CD. Apparently he's a collector with a storefront on Amazon. Nights and Outrun are coming to me from Japan
u.u You guys are crazy. For me the game is absolutely gorgeous, thrilling, breathtaking... And I sugest that you save money and buy an english copy to play it. Why the hurry? Yeah yeah, I agree about the price. I bought mine before the "retro fever", so, expensive for the time, but cheap for today's standards, of course. Today's prices are totally insane. I'm struggling to complete my Pokémon collection...
I have a pretty good anti alais method for my saturn. Taking off my glasses and squinting. Note: Without my glasses I'm damn near blind.
I'm getting there myself. Noticed today that I can't read license plates on cars more than 6 feet away without some blur going on. Might break down and get lasik some day.
...had the import version pretty cheap second hand not long after release, finished in a couple of days without problems. Soon afterwards I managed to get my hands on about 60+ PAL games without casing: so I gave BR PAL away to some friends. I can't help think that this game in some way has inspired Smilebit members creating Gun Valkyrie's concept (gameplay-wise I mean). Did anyone else have stuttering during the intro clips? IIRC, I had it on both the Euro & Jap versions...
You'll unfortunately miss out on a lot of the charm of the game when not in English but it'll still be fully playable. It'll just be harder and far harder to get good scores early on. The voice navigation system was genius and some of the thankyou letters you get from those you save were really cool. You're still getting a very cool game but it'll be lacking some style. I had no idea the EU burning rangers went for so much... Tbh I ended up getting gaurdian heroes from the US some time ago for £15 instead of the £70+ the Eu one was.
