This video was previously taken down by Chinese state media for use of content from the 90's Romance of the Three Kingdoms show. Months after re-uploading a slightly altered version of this episode, this original upload came back online. I will keep both uploads public in case the copyright overlords decide to make this video vanish again. I have no way to control this.

@Random-yh9tj

2 жыл бұрын

Well that was fast, hooray?

"WAR! HUH! What is it good for--" "Conquering China." Gold.

I'm pretty sure every single Koei strategy game for 99% of people falls under the category of "It's a must-play game that I've never played."

you're the first guy to make this game seem genuinely intersting to me. hilarious video man

@planescaped

3 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend ROTK 11. It's a far better entry-level game to the series.

@forthrightgambitia1032

Ай бұрын

I played 9 on the PS2 years ago (around 2004) and enjoyed it. I think it was one of the first PAL releases in the series, I had never heard of it before. I don't think this Saturn entry made it to Europe.

Love the overall increase of quality we've seen with each successive video - the level of research is almost unparalleled as far as Saturn games are concerned. 中国至高无上 !

You thought I wouldn't notice you created a Craig Stadler advisor. But I knew before I even saw it. He is irresistible

I JUST tried to play this game with no knowledge of what to expect. I ran away with my tail tucked between my legs, i had NO idea what to do lol

I've always heard about this series, but never actually played any of them. Kinda rough that the Saturn port isn't so hot when compared to some other versions. Also the Pandamonium theme song is amazing

Ya know every time I see these games on the Saturn or SNES I always just ignored them when seeing them at game stores or what not but - this actually looks insanely fun. Right up my alley.

Just found you thanks to the Shanghai: Triple Threat video! (Yes, I am one of those weirdos whose family specifically bought that game because we already had experience with the series. xD) Can't wait to see certain titles (such as NiGHTS and Fighters Megamix) get their reviews! Keep up the awesome work!

That intro was amazing. Please never change.

Not enough youtubers these days are willing to f-king end the family line of their enemies. Subscribed EDIT: also it is honorable how many times you say RATBEAST, and the pandemonium theme owns. It absolutely owns

23:30 I must've watched this video five times before noticing the name of that officer

@PandaMoniumReviews

2 жыл бұрын

Consistency is key at Pebble.

Fantastic video my friend! I’m glad you’re part of the Saturn community.

Lost it when I saw you named a character Craig Stadler. Shine on, you crazy bastard.

another amazing video. i hope you live long and prosper and never stop

I'm only halfway done watching this, but already impressed with the level of depth you researched this game just to review it for us. I fully appreciate this!

Awesome video! PandaMonium Reviews is my KZread crack.

I dont like waiting 20 minutes for you to tell me there's no sex scenes...

lol dude you have the best Saturn Retrospectives. Keep up the stellar work.

Another great review sir:) I appreciate the work and time you take to make these Saturn reviews. This seems like a great game to play when you find yourself on lock down due to a pandemic. Only one issue is you need to play Risk at least once in your lifetime. Keep up the great videos and I look forward to #22.

_RO3K Retailing for 70$ in the mid 90s_ crazy how all games from now on are going to retail for that same price again. We never escaped the inevitability that game prices would go back to the way they were in the early 90s.

@madhatter8508

2 жыл бұрын

You can thank hyperinflation for that

Great video. Doesn’t seem like it’ll fit into my parenting schedule though 😆

Great video as always, Panda!

Just found you off of fb! As a Saturn fan and content creator, you've got awesome stuff! Subbed and can't wait to watch more! 😄👍

I feel like I tried one of these games when I was WAY too young to understand it and it turned me off of any subsequent ones. I'm honestly not sure even now I would have the patience to do what you did to make this video, but it was interesting to take the journey with you!

So small story about this game. I wanted Nobunaga’s Ambition on the Saturn so bad so I held out thinking it would be next. I just assumed Nobunaga’s Ambition was more popular and if a port of ROTTK then I knew Nobunaga was next. I was even a little hopeful for Aerobiz and maybe even a long shot with Liberty or Death. So I skipped this. I ended up forgetting about until PTOII got ported. Still I waited and waited and that’s how I ended up never playing a Koei Sim on the 5th Gen. I really did you format. Thanks for the reviews!

This was a FANTASTIC review 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Excellent review!

This channel rules, good job!

Best channel on KZread, you made even the least appealing game on the system for me into an epic watch. Thanks for all you do.

I recently just got laid off, the Saturn is my favorite system of all time and I honestly preciate all of your work 🥇 I've been watching every episode

@PandaMoniumReviews

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry to hear you got laid off. Best of luck with finding the next step. Thanks for watching, and I’m glad you’re enjoying the series!

This video inexplicably caused me to buy a PS4 copy of Romance of The Three Kingdoms XIV, and I can't explain why.

The soundtrack for this entire franchise is absolutely bonkers. Listen to it.

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Voyles Will do!

"Oh hey, there's a Kingdom of the Panda's that's-" *video gets deep fried* "...Shit did I leave the LSD slider on max?"

@eb3fan

4 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD WHERE DID YOU FIND A CCP PANDA

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

eb3fan Shanghai.

This is one of those types of games that I always struggle to get into. Not that I've really tried though. I appreciate how you actually take the time to learn games like these for this video series, even if they're not your usual cup 'o tea. Makes me want to give this one another try, though probably not on the Saturn. Shame about the inferior visuals and long load times.

One of those games you try to get into... only to find out that it and its genre don’t comply with your tastes. I would find it interesting of how it was brought over to the west though.

Absolutely awesome. I need to play it

Always wanted to know more about this game, but never cared too much to look it up. Glad that I was able to watch it here. Great review as always. Keep up with the outstanding work. PS: there are many (or any) sources about the number of sales of each US game launched for Saturn?

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

There aren’t sadly, most sales data comes from the game companies themselves. Very few Saturn games have public sales records.

@gibsonadd1542

4 жыл бұрын

@@PandaMoniumReviews I wonder if the companies from that time that still exists have those datas...

"The goal is simple. Take over China." *buys tik tok

It's a shame they didn't put the VDP2 to good use when designing the map, that would have given it a little more visual pizzazz.

The saga of the 3 kingdoms continues in Dynasty Warriors 🤓 Dynasty Warriors Empires is my fav and brings back some of the management "fun". I poured hours into Rot3K on SNES and Saturn. Good games to foster a napoleon complex.

This video convinced me to finally try playing one of these three kingdoms games, but I think I'll be playing the 7th one on PS2 instead, since this one appears to just be a port of the SNES title with some FMVs.

After this review, are you going to consider getting an ODE like the MODE, with the questionable fate of your laser?

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

XeCuTioNR Actually thinking about buying a mode soon. Might get a separate Saturn to dedicate it to first.

@XeCuTioNR

3 жыл бұрын

Sinn0100 in a nutshell, yeah think of your typical Everdrive for cart based consoles but for optical drives, hence ODE (Optical Drive Emulator). For the Saturn you do have a fair amount of options on the market, the MODE from TerraOnion, Fenrir, Rhea/Phoebe and Satiator. All those using SD, USB or SATA drives to pull say a Redump ISO, mounts it, and functions as if you had the actual disc in the drive, with faster loading and preserving the older laser from further wear and tear.

Looking forward to the day you've got more subs than me brotha! 😉

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the notion! I hope we stay neck and neck if anything

@robertdanker6193

4 жыл бұрын

You guys rock!!! Thanks for keeping the Saturn alive!!

Dream of the Red Chamber (I think that's the name) is another of the great Chinese novels that's probably the least well known. However, there is a whole field of scholarship around it called Redology, with people dedicating their lives to the story, I believe since it was never completely finished and the thirst for finding the ending has gone on long enough for it to be a whole field of study. No relevance to the video, just a fact I like to spread whenever the four great Chinese novels comes up.

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

firepoisonsteel That’s crazy to hear it’s unfinished. Fun tidbit there.

Wow, Koei making un optimized port for next gen consoles? Hooo man, ROTK IV Saturn is not as bad as some Dynasty Warriors games on PS4. Speaking of DW, they have Empires spin-offs. Which are totally fun. A nice mix of simple action & simple tactics.

Luv my sprts games.

Heck yeah, it's Sega Saturn time! What's in store for us today... Three Kingd... oh... oh... zzzZzz Unfortunately I have never been a big strategy or war fan and thus never played any of these games. Wish they'd made a decent Monkey King platformer for the Saturn instead. Oh well, great video regardless, keep it up!

That poor disc drive! T__T

Ah, one of the two works of Chinese literature. The other being journey to the West. Nothing else, that's it. You shouldn't need anything else.

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

For the Love of the Game *screams in Water Margin*

@planescaped

3 жыл бұрын

Outlaws of the Marsh is definiately my favorite by far... even if the 4th volume kinda falls off a cliff(so does ROTK for that matter) and the third really becomes unbearable with the "zomg Song Jiang senpai is amazing and perfect!" overtones. Makes Mao Zonggong's insane and borderline demented fangirling over Liu Bei seem reserved(not really). XD I do love the book though. :P

@forthrightgambitia1032

Ай бұрын

How to say you never played Suikoden without saying you never played Suikoden.

I don't give half a dick about war strategy games but your videos are so good, it's still entertaining. So since I don't know shit about these types of games, something completely different- what's your opening theme? Did you add in the bald eagle noise to emphasize the American aspect of the series, or did it just so happen to be in the track you used?

nice!

I doubt it'll happen but I wonder if you might be doing some reviews on the Japanese exclusives on the Saturn?

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

MattDeRac I do plan to, especially ones that almost got western releases, but we’re later canceled. There are a lot. Also, in the later half of the console’s life, imports became a very big part of the American Saturn fan base. It would be essential for me to talk about those games.

@MattDeRac

4 жыл бұрын

PandaMonium Reviews Every U.S. Saturn Game I do found some that are really worth playing

I got it! I got one!

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

RoSoDude RSD Thought you would like that. :D

Dynasty Warriors and Kessen! That's my experience with the Romance of The Three Kingdoms...I guess saga. I have always wanted to read it and maybe one day I will. Being truthful, I would rather play this game. I don't know how I missed out on playing this. I love Risk and most strategy games. When this game hit I was literally engrossed with the Xcom series. Which is still my favorite strategy game too this day. I just want to create an arson squad. I want my officers burning everything down every turn. Burn it all down. ;) Addendum- The extreme loading has me a bit worried. Perhaps when I pick this up I will emulate it. I don't know if you do that with your games but I'm really funny about running my older consoles. I don't think I have physical played my Model 1 PlayStation in over a year. I did however, mod the ever loving shit out of the PlayStation Mini and I have so many thumbdrives with games most of them have become toys for our new kitten. He loves his PlayStation games. Coincidentally, that is a beautiful Japanese Saturn!

Hey its back

@PandaMoniumReviews

2 жыл бұрын

Wat

@Random-yh9tj

2 жыл бұрын

@@PandaMoniumReviews it is, you said this episode was blocked cuz china, hence the reupload, but after looking at your videos list waiting for virtua cop for the 19th time i found out the original upload is back up again

@PandaMoniumReviews

2 жыл бұрын

@@Random-yh9tj Right on. Yeah I had no idea that it suddenly came back online. KZread doesn’t notify me when stuff like this happens, it just sort of happens.

I live in China and gaming can get odd. Cool thing is piracy is very easy and reproductions here are amazing (of consoles).

@PandaMoniumReviews

3 жыл бұрын

I studied abroad there in 2015 and was pleasantly surprised by the great arcades and decently sized gaming communities there. Myself and a few classmates found a competitive Smash 4 scene with both expats and Shanghai locals. Console ban was recently lifted at that point and stores selling them kept popping up at around that time. Like any country, the government can have its own ways of being tricky, but the people I met there were outstanding. Would love to go back someday despite the recent political turmoil. I still have some of the arcade tokens I got there and somewhere in my drawer, the Initial D arcade machine cards I acquired there. Came back with plenty of non-gaming related items and memories too of course.

@cinnamondan4984

3 жыл бұрын

@@PandaMoniumReviews that is awesome. I’m an American from the now infamous Indianapolis living in Shanghai so can relate. Cannot believe the PandaMonium studied in Shanghai. That is awesome. Gaming scene interesting here. Interesting offerings in terms of retro gaming here as far as Taobao is concerned.

@PandaMoniumReviews

3 жыл бұрын

@@cinnamondan4984 Enjoy it while you’re still there. It’s a wonderful city. :) I miss the jian bing stands.

@cinnamondan4984

3 жыл бұрын

@@PandaMoniumReviews I married a local and started a family last year so I am here for life now with plenty of jian bing stands (below apartment) and lanzhou noodles within walking distance. North America has its perks too, but with Covid-19 out there...kind of marooned. Your videos recently intrigued not only myself but my brother in the States as well. He never even played Saturn much and yet enjoys them. You have some serious talent. Keep up the solid work at your leisure.

@PandaMoniumReviews

3 жыл бұрын

@@cinnamondan4984 Thanks friend. :) It means a lot to hear.

No sex scenes????? I AM OUT!!!!!! GREAT VIDEO OVERALL!!!👍👍👍👍

Dozens of stats to scroll through? Now I have a second thing to climax over apart from your videos.

@PandaMoniumReviews

4 жыл бұрын

Carters Retro Reviews Just make sure you finish into the thick pages of that 58 page instruction booklet.

First China... Then Tibet and Hong Kong.