Panzer Dragoon Saga is a 1998 role-playing video game (RPG) developed by Team Andromeda and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn. The third in the Panzer Dragoon series, it replaced the games' rail shooter gameplay with RPG elements such as random encounters, semi-turn-based battles and free-roaming exploration. The player controls Edge, a young mercenary who encounters a mysterious girl from a vanished civilization. The development was arduous and repeatedly delayed; incorporating the Panzer Dragoon shooting elements with full 3D computer graphics and voice acting, both unusual features in RPGs at the time, pushed the Saturn to its technical limits and strained team relations. Saga is the most acclaimed Saturn game and is often listed among the greatest games of all time, earning praise for its story, graphics and combat. It had a limited release in the West and worldwide sales were poor. It has never been re-released and English copies sell for hundreds of US dollars.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1863:

American Indian Wars: The U.S. Army led by Patrick Edward Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and Shoshone forces at the Bear River Massacre in present-day Franklin County, Idaho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Massacre

1911:

Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magonista_rebellion_of_1911

1959:

The first Melodifestivalen, an annual Swedish music competition that determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, was held in Stockholm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodifestivalen

2017:

A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring nineteen others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

dominical: 1. Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord. 2. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Lord's Day, Sunday. 3. (historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year. 4. (figuratively, obsolete) Of printed text: in a large size. 5. (figuratively, obsolete) Red, ruddy. 6. A person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible. 7. (Britain, historical) A payment legally due from a parishioner to the parish, because the parishioner's house was built on land, ownership of which would have originally obliged the landowner to pay a tithe to the parish. 8. (obsolete) 9. The Lord's Day; Sunday. 10. Short for dominical letter. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dominical

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.   --Edward Abbey https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey