Not too long ago I might have had a positive answer to this question, but as it stands the future of the series in the West seems extremely uncertain. While missing some of the side entries seemed harmless at the time, it now looks ominous. I really don't have any answer for this. My predictive powers haven't been accurate as of late either.

The answer is obvious. It's painful, but it's obvious. That series is a licensing nightmare, and at PAX East during a panel with some folks from various localization outlets even many of the crowd groaned when the topic of this series was brought up. Sorry to be a downer, I think that Dragon Quest question put me in a bad mood. Come on Nintendo and Square Enix, you seriously can't sell smiling slimes to the West?

Well let's be fair here, if you or I had made that monstrosity of a developer's nightmare machine, we might want to distance ourselves from it as well. It isn't a well built console, and obviously emulation can be a mess because of it. Naturally this means the system somehow produced a wonderful library of classics. The system even saw versions of such things as Tactics Ogre and the first two Lunar games that never saw the light of day here. So many great games like the second and third parts of Shining Force III and all those fantastic 2D Fighters from Capcom. A greatest hits line of Saturn games from Sega would be full of many wonders. Doesn't seem likely at the moment though. While we're on the subject, why haven't they released the entire library of Sega CD games in any of their Genesis collections? Those games don't require anything special in the emulation department.

As is often the case, you should probably take a lot of the trashing of any modern game with a grain of salt. That said, the game does have its issues. The story and setting aren't quite as good as the original, and graphically many locations are largely reused. Still, there's some great characters and fast and fun combat to keep things going. All in all not a bad game in the slightest.

Those retroviews shall arrive post haste!

It's a fine little game, though not a classic by any means. Without much in the way of Zelda-type games for the system it fit the bill nicely. I always hoped for a sequel that would continue the adventures of Nigel. The game certainly had its issues such as the viewpoint, but it was beefy, had a very cool opening sequence for the time, and had a relatively good story as well. I guess it's good this wasn't a Saturn game as it has been re-released in various collections. Shame the remake of it never saw the light of day.

I think it may have gotten a fan translation, but for some reason I never got around to this one. Perhaps with my Retron 5 able to play import games I may have to grab a copy. That is after playing lots of Dragon Warrior of course.

I have partaken of many hours of that strange game. This is a game with multiple storylines that are almost completely different, and they're based on how quickly you accomplish something in the first area of the game. I believe one of the storylines is even completely devoid of combat (not to mention the combat was bizarre as it played out much like a fighting game)! A very strange game to put it mildly.  It was called a spiritual successor to Landstalker but I didn't really see it aside from a similar viewpoint and a vaguely similar protagonist.

The answer to this is to get a copy of Grandia II for your Dreamcast instead.

I'm all for multi-part game stories, but in general it seems best to keep the number of games and the budget closely in check. We don't want to see another case of a certain Sega series do we? A neat idea at least.

Climax didn't put out much of noticeable quality after Landstalker did they? That list of titles seems small and sad for a developer that was around way back in the 90s. They don't seem to have done much in recent memory. In fact, their Japanese website appears to still be advertising Steal Princess. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

I can't add anything here, Sword of Vermillion is terrible!

Well they did release a nice version of Shin Megami Tensei on iOS, so perhaps there's a home for even earlier entries in the series there? I know we'd all prefer these things on console or portable consoles, but at least it'd be something. I'm sure those games are interesting historical curiosities!

That's not hard at all. I present to you, WRASTLING RPG, the RPG where you make your own character and then slowly rise up through the ranks to eventual main event Wrestlemania. Jesse could then be put in as a villain, the character's trainer, or many other roles that would be filled with many other legendary figures. I'd purchase such a game!

-On the one hand I agree, on the other I miss the more RPG-flavored goodness that was Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
-Tough call for me, but ultimately considering the series found found its biggest hits in the West with the Dragon Quest name, that's ultimately the correct choice.
-I'm pretty sure they actually released them all in order in Japan. Dragon Quest VIII was probably the easiest (aside from being a hit here) considering it doesn't appear to differ from the original PS2 localization (except for no voice acting or orchestrated music). Depending on if IV-VI were ports of the DS versions or something earlier  it would seem like most of the other games would need touch ups of some kind. So who knows what other ones they may release.
-That's a shame, the Rock is cooking a delicious classic Italian dish.

I can tell you I've had to skip through heaps of Japanese tutorial text, so there's definitely lots of instruction early on. That said, it's a hard series to get into, and Monster Hunter 4's increased weapon count will either make it easier to find a weapon that suits you, or just make things more confusing. On the whole though, the other enhancement touches like an increased focus on climbable terrain and jumping attacks make the game more dynamic and fun, providing more of an incentive to learn it well. On the whole, I'd say just start with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate since it's already out here and cheap, but Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate should be a fine place to start once you can play it without a Japanese 3DS

Yes I am playing Disgaea 4 again, this time on the Vita! This won't be a full review, just some impressions on how the game has translated to Vita. So far I can say the game looks right at home on the Vita, thanks to the smaller resolution hiding some of the graphical blemishes the game had on PS3. It also suffers from the same issue the port of Disgaea 3 had, that being no way to import a PS3 save or some other way to quickly get a high level party to check out the added content. Not that I would complain too much about playing through again! Disgaea 4 is a blast, with a highly entertaining main character. I highly recommend it!