Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Finally Shows Off Gameplay, Seven Years After Reveal

I'm waiting for it, I had fun with the first one. I'm pretty sure that Zwei will be good as well.

Why do I feel it doesn't even look as good as Orta from the OG X-Box? I really hope that one is next as it was fantastic.

It all looks basic and barren in this remake.

After seven years you could argue it has taken them forever to release the remake.

Looks kinda rough to be honest. I might give it a shot if it's fun.

It took the same amount of time from announcing the remake to this preview as it did to release the entire original series of 4 games plus a spinoff.

It looks slow. I'll have to load the Sega Saturn original onto my RG405V and see for sure.

I don't know what the vision was here, but I don't think they reached it. I know it's claiming it is "early" footage... but it just has that presence of Wii shovelware to me.

„Zwei-back“? I don’t get it. Do I have to read the zwei in some English way to get the pun?

Orta on the Xbox, looks über next-gen, compared to this, and that came out in 2002...

Take a look at the enhanced version of Orta. THIS is what I expect from a remake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SLzE1rGKGk

All those years and they could've just made a new game instead.

I'm so excited for this game to finally resurface! My hopes flared up when House of the Dead 2 remake (same studio) was released. The remake of the first game was really good, but Panzer Dragoon Zwei is the game that has my heart. Such a good ambience and such good memories. Can't wait!

After looking at this video, this has to be footage from 7 years ago. If this is current, they need another 7 years to be honest, and this is coming from a fan.

This developer doesn't deserve to work on Panzer Dragoon. How awful it is Sega has allowed them to run the franchise's name through the ground. This is gross looking.

I've never played the originals, but those old Saturn graphics (from what I've seen on YouTube comparisons) have a texture and grit to them that makes them aesthetically interesting. This remaster just looks like plastic shovelware.

I did play the first Panzer Dragoon on Switch. It's a fine game. But I feel the "modernized" graphics are losing something in the transition.

Some comments on the video share concerns? I'd say %99 of the comments is more than some comments.

@KeeperBvK I don't speak German, but I found this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/German/comments/x574nw/why_is_the_number_two_sometimes_pronounced_zwo_in/

NL's phrase itself was a play on the meme phrase "we are so back"

I watched a minute and 12 seconds of the gameplay, that was enough to see that nothing has really changed at Forever, as this looks bad. The debris between :60-:72 look so awful like the devs just threw something together as an alpha animation. The death spiral for that enemy would have looked infinitely better with just an explosion at the end and the debris disappearing behind the explosion.

Like, yeah, I get that it's a work in progress, but some things should not be shown to the public if they're obviously incomplete.

But in Forever's case, these things will likely stay incomplete until a year after the game releases, maybe cough forever. >_>

Looks fair, but will we get the RPG one?

Forever Entertainment really dropped the ball with these Sega remakes, I was really looking forward to them but they've been bang average.

@Kilroy Oooh, thanks a lot for the investigation. I would have never guessed that, because, while, yeah, you can pronounce "2" as "zwo", you cannot pronounce "zwei" as "zwo", if you get what I mean. If we write "zwei", then we already decided to pronounce it that way. So, yeah, not Alana's best...

@SuntannedDuck2

If this is how they remake PD games, they can keep their mitts off Saga, forever.

It reminds me of pre-rendered graphics in the 90's, which is its own kind of aesthetic. It could be better. If the gameplay is there, I'm in. Zwei is one of my favorite games but it is niche, so I feel lucky we're even getting this.

It's definitely looking a bit rough, but uou could maybe say that about the first one in hindsight too and I still enjoyed it. If thry release this on a console I own still (PS4, Switch 1), I'll definitely pick it up at some point.

@w1p3out Completely agree. You'd expect better from them.

Then again same said for any other lower budget publisher remakes Sega/Square/others don't really care enough.

How FF Tactics gets the focus (sure team sizes or devs to give them too) but the outsourcing hasn't made them that much better at all for the Panzer Dragoon/Front Mission or other remakes/remasters.

Let alone the amount they want when making them because audience expectations not just their profit expectations (they have to be big enough sellers because reasons) then making a more reasonable scale remake then outsourcing due to teams to push them to and besides their decisions/budget.