A very rare Japanese
Strategy RPG for
Sega Saturn. It was remade for
Sega Dreamcast as
Black Matrix A/D, also called Black Matrix Advanced. This
game has very strange
music -- it sounds horrible at first, but it grows on you. There are large amounts of
religious references in the game, and the
animations in the Dreamcast version are very cool (I've never played the Saturn version, but I do have the soundtrack). I can't really say anything about the
plot, because I can't read
kanji. The
3D graphics are not spectacular, but they are on-par with other strategy/rpgs, and the
2D graphics are very good. I found the game rather
addictive. It begins in a very odd way. You start by choosing one of the various
female characters. You then have a short section of a daily life with that character. Collecting food, chopping wood, that kind of stuff. Then she will get kidnapped, or something, and you'll never get to actually use her in the combat portion of the game, until the very end. So my second time through the game, I picked the character I liked the least. Anyone willing to play import games (or who can read Japanese), and likes
Strategy RPGs, should definately try this game.