Panzer Dragoon for Sega Saturn
FAQ/Walkthrough.version 1.0
October.31.2k2
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//table of contents//
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I...Foreword
Ia...Update/Revision history
Ib...Credits
II...Story analysis
IIa...Storyline
IIb...Panzer Dragoon timeline
III...Level guides
IIIa...Episode 1
IIIa1...Story details
IIIa2...Level guide - Ruins of the Lake
IIIa3...Boss - Naraka Class Imperial Warship
IIIb...Episode 2
IIIb1...Story details
IIIb2...Level guide - Flight Through the Desert
IIIb3...Boss - Prototype/Dark Dragon
IIIc...Episode 3
IIIc1...Story details
IIIc2...Level guide - 9th Excavation Site
IIIc3...Boss - Prototype Imperial Assualt Ship
IIId...Episode 4
IIId1...Story details
IIId2...Level guide - Inside the 9th Excavation Site
IIId3...Boss - Guardian
IIIe...Episode 5
IIIe1...Story details
IIIe2...Level guide - Assault Above the Forest
IIIe3...Boss - Imperial Flying Stronghold
IIIf...Episode 6
IIIf1...Story details
IIIf2...Level guide - Teito, Empire's Capital City
IIIg...Last Episode
IIIg1...Story details
IIIg2...Boss - Prototype/Dark Dragon
IIIh...Ending
IIIh1...Story details
IV...Secrets and Extras
IVa...Invincible mode
IVb...Episode 0
IVc...Stage Select
IVd...Infinite continues
IVe...Rolling mode
IVf...Weapon changing
IVg...Wizard mode
IVh..."Space Harrier" mode
IVi...Dragon only mode
IVj...Manipulating the Segaman
IVk...Suicide
IVl...Clean pause screen
IVm...View the ending
IVn...View the secret screen you get if you beat it on Hard
V...Closing
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I...Foreword
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With the imminent release next year of Panzer Dragoon Orta for the
Xbox I've decided to revisit the classic Panzer games with some new EnemyZero
Online faqs (not that the old ones are bad, CjayC's for Saga helped me out
immensely back in the day). The Panzer series is one of my favorite series of
all time and I wish more people would have experienced it's universe...
hopefully the rumors that Sega will remake the games for the Xbox are true.
These Panzer Dragoon guides are designed to be the ULTIMATE source for
info on the games including the most complete storyline info. ANY HELP FROM
THE PANZER DRAGOON COMMUNITY WOULD BE GREAT. Email any storyline info that I
may have missed, with everyones help maybe we can start to complete the Panzer
Dragoon timeline that's been neglected since Team Andromeda disbanded.
Ia...Update/Revision history
Version 1.0 - October.27.2k2 - Initial release.
Ib...Credits - A special thanx to everyone listed.
Panzer Dragoon Academy -
http://www.sun-inet.or.jp/~dds552/PDA/top.html
for a lot of the storyline info. Site is only available in Japanese
and I don't think it's being updated anymore.
GameFAQs message board users for assorted help:
LMN8R
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II...Story analysis
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The best part about the Panzer series to me is the storyline of each
game and how they intertwine with each other. I don't believe any other
company would make a relativly short game like the Panzer games and take the
time to flesh out such an awesome setting and universe. Every last detail has
been worked out and they even made a timeline that goes back about 90 years
BEFORE any of the games. The storylines for all the games are extremely
intricate and best of all, emotional...even the shooting Panzers. I only hope
the legacy can live on with MULTIPLE new Panzer games (after Orta) including
a new RPG (like Saga) so we even get to see more of the universe I love so
much...
IIa...Storyline
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
Thousands of years have past since a once thriving human race was
pushed to the edge of extinction by their own bio-weapons, genetically
altered creatures of their own creation who eventually turned against them.
Humans live in constant fear and struggle with the creatures endlessly, just
trying to regain some of their lost power.
***Panzer Dragoon Zwei happens around this time***
It was a losing battle until one day a faction of the humans, known as
the Imperials, found the secret weapon they hoped would give them the
upperhand once again...the Tower. The Imperials then used the ancient weapons
and devices inside the Tower to drive back some of the creatures and regain
some of their lost ground in the war for humanity. The Imperials couldn't
figure out how to operate the Tower itself though and it remained totally
dormant.
The Imperials became power hungry however and used the weapons found
within The Tower against the other surrounding nations with a goal nothing
short of world domination. Other nations eventually found ancient weapons
of their own and a seemingly endless series of wars took place.
Years later...a young man named Kyle (Ka-i-ru) from a small, unknown
village somewhere in the Great Plains was in a hunting party, scouting one of
the many canyons surrounding the Great Plains when a mysterious Imperial
battleship passed directly overhead to their amazement. While in awe over the
sight they were attacked by a group of Burrowers, killing one of the men in
his group. One of the burrowers started to escape so Kyle chased it through
numerous canyons until he reached one that he had never seen before to his
surprise. And at the end of it was an even greater surprise...the entrance to
an abandonded building of some sort...
After entering the building and exploring a little, Kyle was
attacked by a huge creature and just as he thought it was all over he was
saved from the beast by a blast from down the hall. Once outside he gazed up
into the bright, endless sky to see the unreal sight of 2 dragons engaged in a
spectacular air battle above his head. Just as he was begining to get his
barrings he watched as the blue dragon's rider's chest was peirced by a laser
bolt from the black dragon's rider, fataly wounding him. Without remorse, the
black dragon flew off into the sky until it disappeared from sight.
To Kyle's amazment the blue dragon landed before him and the dieing
rider held his hand out in desperate gesture for help and as Kyle touched
it their minds merged and many images flooded into his head along with a long
final image...the Tower. While staring at the picture of the Tower in his
head, Kyle faintly heard the words "don't...let him go back to The Tower...my
dragon...knows the way..."
Suddenly Kyle regained his own consiousness and watched as the rider
fell lifelessly to the ground, hearing a final word, "...please..." The blue
dragon let out an ear-peircing cry of mourning for its fallen rider then
slowly lowered it's head in Kyle's direction...waiting...
With the sky rider's weapon in hand, Kyle mounted the mysterious
dragon and with the fate of the world on his shoulders...he knew what he must
do...stop the Prototype/Dark Dragon.
IIb...Panzer Dragoon timeline
Not finished yet!!
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III...Level guides
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The biggest tip for getting good shot down %'s is to actually watch
the radar more then the screen. As soon as you see a yellow dot on the radar
rotate around to it an blast it out of the sky, continuously watching the
radar for any new blips. You're going to have to be fast in your camera
rotating, which is another other key, because it often moves slowly or not at
all if you press L or R twice too rapidly. Try to play through every level
multiple times before you go for a total 100% game and MEMORIZE it, try to
have your camera rotated towards the next enemy group BEFORE the enemy even
appears and shot it down as fast as possible. Memorize, memorize, memorize...
IIIa...Episode 1
IIIa1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
After accepting his fate of riding the dragon and
understanding his task of stopping the Prototype Dragon from
reaching the Tower, Kyle (boring name...) and the Solo
Wing began their journey by passing over a lake, heading
towards the Empire's 9th excavation site and ultimately, the
Tower. The Empire, knowing the dragon would take this path,
sent a single Naraka class battleship to intercept it but
they didn't anticipate it's hidden power and it was easily
defeated. A single small fighter plane escaped the Naraka
ship destruction and secretly started to follow the Blue
Dragon.
IIIa2...Level guide - Ruins of the Lake
This Episode is really a walk in the park as there are really
no tricky parts and most of the enemies appear in front of
your dragon so there’s not a lot of camera rotation to worry
about. Just shoot the stuff that gets in front of you.
The second group of 3 winged enemies near the beginning
after flying over the wall do appear to your right so be
ready to rotate the camera at that point and YES, you can get
hurt by hitting the pillars sticking out of the water so try
to stay a high in the air and dodge only when necessary.
After passing through an archway of pillars with enemies
inside you will fight a group of jellyfish looking guys which
are a little tricky because the bullets that they shoot at
you look a lot like them and it's easy to get mixed up.
After a second archway and a slow turn by the dragon, 2 more
winged enemies will fly out of the water in front of you
which you should be ready for, not because they're hard or
will kill you but because they take TWO laser blasts to kill
so don't just shoot them once and assume they're dead, you're
going to need to hit them again, it's best to kill them with
Kyle's gun.
Through the next area with walls everywhere some enemies
will appear over to the side on your radar but don't worry
about rotating your viewpoint because the dragon will
automatically fly along the path they're on, making it so you
can just pick them off from the front. Just fly high to
avoid the snapping plant-like things and you'll be great.
Inside the ruin there are only 6 enemies, two groups of 3,
and you can actually target them and shoot them through
the walls in the room before them so this should be a piece
of cake.
IIIa3...Boss battle - Naraka Class Imperial Battleship
Easy battle. The first thing you should do is lock onto the
6 small fighter planes that are flying around the Battleship
and laser them, they'll become a pain if they stick around
for long. Then start locking onto the Battleship and blast
away. While you're blasting away though try and notice the
little "things" on the ships deck that you can shoot with
Kyle's gun and they'll disappear for a little while then
come back. Those are acctually suposed to be human gunners
(don't worry, they can't hit you) firing at you from the
deck! Umm, anyways...it will rotate around you sometimes so
just rotate your camera with it and keep plugging away. When
it gets close to you it's better to use Kyle's gun then your
lock-ons as it seems to do slightly more damage and can kill
any bullets that are shot at you in close range. When it
rotates to your left side, however, it will usually use a
torpedo attack on you, dropping a torpedo into the water
where it waits for a few seconds then launches at you. As
soon as you see a torpedo in the water start blasting it with
Kyle's gun as it takes quite a few bullets to destroy it.
The Battleship only has 3 torpedo’s at a time so when they're
gone, go back to regular strategies. When it retreats use
lock-ons BUT as soon as you see it fire some regular bullets
stop locking on and divert all your attention to shooting the
bullets down with Kyle's gun and totally forget about the
battleship. This tip is basically universal throughout the
game as Kyle's gun is your only defense against any
incoming projectiles. You should beat him with absolutly no
problems.
IIIb...Episode 2
IIIb1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
With the single fighter plane still secretly following the
Blue Dragon, it passed over a desert area, fighting off the
natural creatures and even destroying some giant sand worms.
The aircraft pilot was amazed at the power of the Dragon as
it pretty much killed everything with ease. At the stormy end
of the desert he was even more amazed to see the other dragon
waiting for the Blue Dragon and a furious battle between the
two ensued. After both dragons relented, they both increased
their flying speed and took off in the direction of the 9th
excavation site. The fighter plane pilot couldn't keep up
with the dragon's new speed so he broke off the pursuit and
headed towards the Capital City of Teito to warn the Emperor
who then alerted units near the 9th excavtion site including
new ground units.
IIIb2...Level guide - Flight Through the Desert
This stage is actually pretty hard to get 100% on and it
annoys the crap out of me.
Right from the start there are a ton of yellow blips on your
radar to your rear (where you're facing already) so try to
kill all the flying guys first then hit the worm as many
times as you can, they are REALLY hard to kill. As soon as
you deal with the worm, or even if you can't, turn the view
to the front AS SOON AS YOU POSSIBLE...you're about to be
assaulted by a ton of enemies and you need to get the jump on
them. The first group is dead ahead of you but make sure you
shoot them with Kyle's gun. This and the next group of
enemies launch a pink thing at you when they get shot, which
you also have to kill for a good percentage. By using Kyle's
gun rapidly you can usually hit the flying guys then nail the
pink thing with another bullet right away, not giving it a
chance to get away or hit you. The second group of enemies
just like the first group come right after the first group
from the front-right so adjust your view accordingly. As
soon that group is done turn to the front because a swarm of
flying creatures should have appeared right in front of you.
There's a lot of them so you have to be really fast to kill
them all before entering the cave in front of you and missing
them forever...I tend to believe that for completing this
part with killing everything you need just as much luck as
skill...
As soon as you're inside the cave there will be 3 ground
enemies on the floor in front of you so blast them away with
Kyle's gun. Your dragon will fly forward a little and
stop in the middle of a circular room. A few of the ground
enemies will pop out of the dirt in front of you followed by
a bunch more which will pop out in a COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
circle around your dragon. The best bet for this part is to
use Kyle's gun and follow the line of enemies by rotating
your view and blasting away at them as they come out of the
sand. If you don't nail one of these enemies as he pops out
he'll jump in the air and fly at you so just keep firing
your gun and slightly adjust your sight if any get in the
air.
After your dragon starts moving again a bunch of the same
ground enemies will pop out of the ground as you fly forward.
You should use lock-ons during this part because they are
hard to see with your eye with all the dirt flying
everywhere to manually aim at. Just hold the button down and
move your sight back and forth along the dirt puffs and nail
them with your lasers. Again though, if one gets up and
starts to fly at you, you have to shoot it down with Kyle's
gun before it hits you.
Your dragon will start to slow down at another circular room
and the KEY to this room is to have your sight pointed
towards the center (about...) of the screen and hold the
button down. 8 of the flying creatures will fly into the room
and fly around in a circle in front of you and if you have
your sight in the right spot, all of the enemies will fly
right past it and get locked-on without you even moving the
target. There are 8 of them so you can get a max lock-on
before letting your lasers fly, killing all of them at once.
From that room you'll start moving forward again and 2 ground
creatures will pop up in front of you as well as 4 of the
manta ray looking guys. Shoot them all with lock-ons then pay
attention! The rest of this tunnel has the ground creatures
popping out of the sand in steady increments, one to the left
then one to the right. Instead of trying to shoot them off
the walls wait and LET them jump at you, then nail them with
Kyle's gun as they're in the air. Moving your sight slightly
to the left or to the right you can nail each one easily.
After you exit the cave there will be a flock of "birds" in
the sky (which you can't shoot so don't try) ahead of you and
a group of 5 of the manta ray guys that you need to quickly
lock-on to and shoot because they are moving very fast across
the screen, only being shootable for a few seconds. Then more
worms...joy. Well the best advice I can give is shoot away.
As I mentioned before it's really hard to kill these guys in
time (before they go away). When they're to your rear use the
regular gun because as they jump around they fire green
poison that you'll need to shoot down. When they're in front
of you they'll fire orange bullets out of their tails which
aren't very hard to dodge so it's no big deal.
IIIb3...Boss battle - Prototype/Dark Dragon
After the two worm enemies a sand twister should appear
in front of you at which point you should immediately switch
your viewpoint to the rear because the Prototype Dragon is
about to sneak up on you and let loose a fury of bullets.
Just try dodge them and switch to the front view again. The
best way to damage him is to use lock-ons, Kyle's gun is
pretty useless this battle except for a couple times when
the Prototype Dragon fires some homing bullets at you. The
Prototype Dragon has 8 lock-on points so you can do a lot of
damage in a little amount of time by maxing out your lock-ons
everytime you aim at him. After he flies ahead of you and is
far off in the distance he use a sonic wave type attack that
is flat and long but very easy to dodge just by flying up or
down. Sometimes he'll fly around you and if he stops to your
right or left (usually your left) then he's about to fire
some homing missiles at you so get out Kyle's gun and blow
them up before they get near you. He should go down pretty
quickly and gives you a nasty glance after you beat him
before he flies away.
IIIc...Episode 3
IIIc1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
The Blue Dragon reached the outer area of the 9th excavation
site late at night as the Empire decided to try a mixture of
ground troops as well as the normal air units to stop the
dragon. They also had a new prototype combo weapon waiting
for the dragon at the end of the encampment but it also
failed, which the Empire decided was because of a problem in
the design philosophy and it was permanently ceased from
production. After defeating the Imperial weapon the Blue
Dragon entered the ruins...
IIIc2...Level guide - 9th Excavation Site
Right at the start of the Episode a battleship is to your
right with a couple smaller ships flying around it. Lock-on
to the smaller ships first so you don't forget about them
and let them get away. After they're gone continue plugging
away on the main ship, shooting bullets when you need to
BUT watch the radar! There is going to be a single small ship
that appears way to the right (watch the radar!) that only
stays on the screen a few seconds so when it appears stop
everything and blow it away before it leaves the screen,
killing your hopes of a 100% shot down ratio.
Almost right after you kill the first battleship switch
your view to the right again because another one is about
the appear in the distance. Keep shooting it just like the
other one but beware of when it stops because it will let
out 3 or 4 smaller ships that you must lock-on to and
destroy.
After it's dead switch to the front view as a ton of yellow
blips are about to appear ahead of you. Most of them are
the new ground units and you can pick them all off from
a distance before you even get near them. Floating over the
top of them though is another battleship, so laser away at
it and you can probably destroy it before you even get
near it.
In the next area a bunch of the ground units will rush you
from your back and right areas so pre-adjust your view to
deal with them. Also in this area are 3 destroyable
mining machines that DO show up on your radar so don't
forget about them!
The next area after the archway you fly under is full of
mounted gun turrets with 2 of them directly to your
left and right after you exit the archway so to get a good
start to this area use the "shoot through walls" trick and
lock onto them and blast them AS you're going through the
archway so you won't have to worry about rotating your
view at all. All the rest of the enemies in this area
are basically straight ahead of you so just keep an eye out
and blast them...HOWEVER, after the third group of ground
units, there are 2 units that don't move to your right
where they're hidden behind a rock. Just be prepared for
them and watch the radar to spot them and shoot em.
In the next area there are a ton of the mounted guns on
some platforms that your dragon will automatically fly
around making it easy to hit all of them if your view is
to your left. After you kill the last one switch your view
to the front again because there is a single ground unit
in the archway to the next area where your dragon is about to
fly.
Now this is the really tricky and annoying part. Ahead of
you a few vehicles appear on the ground which aren't hard
to lock-on to and hit but when you do hit them, with Kyle's
gun or lock-ons, they split and start flying around. You've
got to lock-on to them again to kill them but as they fly
around they throw some sort of flaming barrels around that
you can lock-on to also, severely limiting your ability to
see the ships and lock-on to them. Make sure you do a good
job of dodging from side to side and make SURE you are
locking-on to the ships themselves and not just the barrels.
IIIc3...Boss battle - Prototype Imperial Assualt Ship
The boss will first appear in 2 parts, one on each side of
you which you can lock-on to but don't bother to shoot it
before it's health bar appears because it won't do
anything. The 2 parts then fly in front of you, connecting
with each other. Use lock-ons as soon as the health bar
appears and get ready to dodge. Right after the health bar
appears it will fly towards you and the helicopter blades
on the bottom part will start to rotate around you. Just
keep locking-on and dodging up and down when you need to so
the spinning blades miss you.
After you deplete its health bar it will break apart and
reform with a new health bar. Lock-ons are the way to
go again as it jumps up and down. The second time it jumps
it will go off the screen and land behind you but don't
switch the view just yet...when it jumps over you from
the front to the back it will fire a couple of bullets that
you must shoot with your regular gun before switching to
the rear view or you will get nailed by them. When
it lands behind you it will fire 4 bullets which can
easily be shot down as it lands to your rear-right. This
time when it lands it will fire 4 missiles straight ahead
(NOT at you) which you NEED to lock-on to and destroy as
soon as you can because if they get behind you (to your
front) they will break into a bunch of smaller bullets and
come back to hit you. Keep following the pattern and the boss
is toast.
Sometimes the bottom part will die leaving just top part to
finish off but don't worry about, the top part just flies
around in front of you and fires regular bullets.
IIId...Episode 4
IIId1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
The Blue Dragon then entered the 9th excavation site followed
by squardons of the Empire's finest in pursuit. Once inside
the ruins, strange ships were mysteriously activated and
attacked the Blue Dragon and it's rider. Later it was guessed
that the ships were guardians of the site and were awoken by
the presence of the dragon. Near the exit to the site the
dragon also encountered the ruins main guardian which was a
a bird-type guardian but again, the lone dragon's power was
to much for it. The next morning the Kotoda (?) arrived at
the site and picked up the survivors who then told the story
of what happened to the Imperials.
IIId2...Level guide - Inside the 9th Excavation Site
This stage is insanely hard to get a great % on but it
can be done and memorization is the key.
Right when you start out 5 ships are chasing you so blow
them away and immediately switch to your front view as 4
more ships are about to appear and they fly past you really
quickly so you have to be fast.
As your dragon turns downward and starts going down a
tunnel 2-3 ships should appear in front of you far off
in the distance so blast them ASAP and IMMEDIATLY turn
to your rear as 4 more ships are coming from the back.
Blow them away them IMMEDIATALY switch to the front view
again as more ships have appeared ahead of you. This is
definitly the trickiest part of the stage and you have to be
really fast to kill everything. As you go downward there are
a couple groups of 4 ships that dart out in fron of you BUT
there are also 2 groups of 2 ships to shoot down near the
middle of the tunnel that fly in from the side tunnels then
stay completely stationary as you fly past them, if you miss
any enemies this entire stage it's probably these guys. Just
be aware they're there and have quick lasers.
After a couple quick turns, keep shooting the groups of
4 ships that appear ahead of you (there are 2 groups I
think) and after the second group is destroyed you
should see two ships on your radar to you rear BUT DON'T
SWITCH YOUR VIEW! The 2 ships will fly in front of you
and you can lock-on to both of them pretty easily if you
keep your target in the center of the screen and just move
it SLIGHTLY to the left and right. 3 more groups of the same
2 ships follow the first 2 so kill them the same way. Keep
your sight in the middle of the screen and be quick when they
fly around you to the front because they're only in front of
you for a second or so. Keep your dragon in the center of the
screen too or the ships will run into you and mess up your
aiming.
You'll fly up to a doorway which will automatically open
with 2 ships directly on the other side so be ready to blast
them. As your dragon slowly goes through this room, ships
will pop up in front of you and fire a few bullets so keep
your view forward and use your lasers.
After the room you fly down a hallway with passages on
each side that enemies will jump out of and fire. This
part is hard to see and shoot them down because it's a
very confined space and their bullets are big and get in
the way. After a quick turn you will fly down another
hallway with a door at the end BUT you will not go
through the door because your dragon quickly turns right
before it...HOWEVER 3 new ships will come out of the door
right before you turn so you have to be quick to kill them
or you'll fly right by them and miss them.
A few more enemies in front of you later you will enter
another room just like the one before with easy enemies
flying out in front of you and shooting. Use lasers.
One quick turn later there will be 2 easy to hit enemies
in front of you followed by a few more quick turns in a row.
The next hallway has 3 enemies far off in the distance but
shoot them ASAP because your dragon takes a sharp right about
halfway through the tunnel without any warning and you'll
miss them. Right after you take the sharp right there are 3
more ships in front of you that are easy kills.
Your dragon should start to dip down a tunnel following 3
more ships that you should lock-on to and kill. 3 more
enemies appear ahead of you and then your dragon will start
to slow down and fly past a group of 4 ships in front of you
which you also only have one shot at killing so blast them
ASAP. Right after they're destroyed 2 ships will jump in
front of you on the way down so kill them too.
When you start to fly straight again you'll enter a room with
4 groups of 2 ground enemies appearing in front of you, just
keep your target near the middle and it will be no problem.
The next room after that is just like it with 4 groups of 2
of the same enemies falling from the ceiling.
After a door and a quick turn you'll fly down a hallway with
a bunch of doors that only open when you're really close to
them and open just slightly so stay near the middle and try
to slide through the openings.
IIId3...Boss battle - Guardian
The boss starts out way down the hall in front of you then
finally comes alive after you pass over it and starts to
follow you. It will fly in front of you then behind you again
finally revealing it's health bar...now you can start
shooting. While he's to your rear he'll just fly around and
sometimes shoot a bullet or two at you which can be easily
shot down. Whenever you lock-on to him and fire your lasers
he'll cover himself up with one of his "shield" arms,
protecting his tender midsection, so one of the keys is after
you fire your lasers and he covers himself up try to shoot
his arm with Kyle's gun...getting as many hits on it as you
can before he takes it down. Use this technique throughout
the battle and sooner or later his arm will get destroyed and
trigger his second phase.
He has a couple more attacks if he flies in front of you
where he'll pull back his arm a little then launch it at you.
It's really slow though and if you know it's coming then it's
easy to dodge. His other attack when he's in front of you is
when he starts to spin around and launches a spiral stream of
bullets at you. There's no way to shoot them all in time with
your regular gun so it's best to anticipate the animation for
it then fly in a circle to avoid them.
After one of the arms is blown off he'll fly in front of you
and stay in a stationary position while shooting a green
continuous laser that will follow you around the screen. Keep
locking-on and firing while dodging the laser by flying
around in a circular motion again...DO NOT stop moving or the
laser will hit you and it does a lot of damage. Sometimes
he'll stop the green laser and fly around firing a couple of
bullets at a time which you can easily to dodge, just keep
firing. His head should blow up next then just finish him
off, dodging his regular bullets.
IIIe...Episode 5
IIIe1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
The Blue Dragon and Kyle reach the Teito early defensive
line over a forest...the Empire's final line of defense
before the Capital City. Almost all of the remaining Imperial
forces were gathered here and ordered to stop the dragon at
all costs including the Empire's largest flying stronghold.
The mysterious Blue Dragon plowed through ALL of the Empires
finest troops and after a heated battle with the flying
stronghold only the dragon was left standing. Afterwards the
Emperor decided to stop any and all pursuit of the dragon
after such miserable results not knowing of the attack about
to occur in the heart of their own Capital City...
IIIe2...Level guide - Assault Above the Forest
This whole episode is a non-stop aerial battle and
extremely hard to get a 100% on. Fast view changes and quick
lasers are the only advice.
The Episode starts with you flying in a downward slope with 3
incoming battleships. Lock-on to them and hit them once then
they'll break apart, one in front of you, one to the back-
right and one to the back-left. Finish them off as quickly as
possible because by now there's about 4 more small ships on
your radar to your left and rear. The ships should die pretty
quickly but there's a lot of them and they shoot a lot of
bullets. As soon as they're gone, 3 or 4 waves of small ships
fly straight towards you so keep your sight ahead and blow em
away. Then QUICKLY switch your view to the right because a
fast wave of 4 ships should be on the radar. Kill them as
fast as possible then switch to the left view to pick off
another wave of 4 right when they appear. 2 more battleships
also appear from the rear as well as a new ship which will
fly over you to your right hand side. Kill the battleships
first then lock-on to all the parts of the new ship (the top
"cones" too) and keep firing until it goes away.
Now get ready to be annoyed. The first group of ships appear
in front of you, the second to your right, and then these
little ships will start popping out of the trees shooting
things at you. There's really nothing I can tell you for this
part, just shoot as fast as you can and be ready after it's
all over because 2 huge battleships will fly in front of
you. Just beware there are a lot of the ships that jump out
from the trees and they're hard to get a bead on. One of the
2 battleships that attacks you has 4 smaller fighter planes
surrounding it so get rid of them as quickly as possible then
concentrate ALL of your firepower on one of the ships because
they have a ton of health and they fly away pretty quickly,
if they do it's bye bye 100%. After one is gone take out the
other.
When the 2 huge battleships are destroyed or gone, the ship
you met shorty before with the cones on the top comes back.
Keep locking-on to it with as many as you can and keep an eye
on the radar because some smaller ships join the fray from
the sides and you don't want to miss them. The ship drops
mines that explode when they hit the treetops and the
"shrapnel" bullets home-in on you so start dodging. When you
hit it enough it will fly behind you but DON'T follow it with
your view, switch to the left view because there will be
2 smaller ships coming in from that side (if you're slow
killing the ship they'll fly in while you're fighting it so
be aware). 2 also come in from the right side directally
afterwards so be ready.
IIIe3...Boss battle - Imperial Flying Stronghold
The mighty stronghold appears straight ahead of you followed
by 2 battleships from the rear. At first concentrate all of
your attention to the 2 battleships because if you don't kill
them they'll fly away. After they're gone, the stronghold
spins around, revealing 3 rows of red cannons that you should
start plugging away at with you regular gun. It fires about
20 bullets at a time in different directions so have your
sight ready to move slightly around and shoot any bullets
that look like they're headed your way. The 3 red rings
should die pretty quickly.
As soon as they're gone the stronghold will fly back in front
of you and spin around showing its underside. Your regular
gun is the thing to use again, just aim for the blue part
about midway and blast away. It will sometimes fire missiles
at you and air torpedo’s, both of which can be easily dealt
with Kyle's gun. Keep plugging away and it should die
surprisingly quick.
IIIf...Episode 6
IIIf1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
As the two dueling dragons got closer and closer to the
Tower, a change started to occur in the activity level of the
Tower and its reactor's power level greatly increased,
eventually totally reactivating it. Suddenly an army of
bio-mechanical creatures emerged from the water surrounding
the Tower, blindsiding the Empire's fleet and destroying most
of the Capital City. The dragons fought throughout the city,
eventually reaching the Tower for the final showdown...It was
now apparent that the Prototype/Dark Dragon was the Tower's
guardian while the Blue Dragon was there to destroy it...
IIIf2...Level guide - Teito, Empire's Capital City
THE HARDEST STAGE TO GET 100% ON. By far. Right from the
start you have to shoot down like 5 waves of enemies and
those annoying boat guns. Also you duel with the Prototype
Dragon the whole stage but shooting him does nothing so don't
worry about him too much, just try and shoot the homing
bullets he fires at you.
IMMEDIATLY after this level starts there are 2 ground
enemies to shoot directly your front-left, then 3 boats to
the front-right, then a bunch more flying guys to your front.
Pay attention to the boats! They're all over the place and I
can almost guarantee you if you miss anything on this level
it's of those guys. Another wave of more flying creatures
will come in from the left, right after the Prototype Dragon
passes in front of you.
There will be 3 more boats to your right which are easy to
lock-on to then the Prototype Dragon will pass in front of
you yet again so just ignore him then move your cursor along
the bridge up ahead as it's littered with enemies and laser
them. The Prototype Dragon crosses in front of you again but
ignore him again. On the sidewalk in front of you there are 4
more ground units so lock-on to them and kill them then
IMMEDIATALLY go to your rear view as 2 waves of ships are
coming in from the rear-left. Get to your front view ASAP
after the ships are gone and shoot the big battleship that
flies in front of you. It will fly forward then release some
new ships that are easy kills. There's another bridge ahead
with enemies on it so do the same thing as the last one. When
you get up to the bridge 2 ships will jump out of the water
on your front-left so be ready.
After you go over the bridge there will be 3 more boats in
front of you that are easy to hit but then when you fly over
where the boats were, 3 enemies will jump out of the water
to your left so have your view there and blast them away with
your regular gun. Right after that 3 flying creatures will
come flying around the corner of the building ahead, followed
by 3 from the left. Kill em all and continue. There should be
a bridge ahead now with a single ship directly in the
middle of it so lock-on and shoot.
Right after the bridge 2 more flying creatures will fly ahead
of you so do the same to them. After a little enemy free
flying some flying guys will fly in front of you from behind
another building. As you go down this alleyway there will be
part where there is a pathway to both sides and as you go by
it an enemy will fly out of both sides. They both fly to the
front of you so keep your view there and shoot them when they
are there. Same thing happens at the next intersection too so
be prepared. Your dragon will start to fly faster now through
the alleyways so keep an eye on your radar, small waves of
flying creatures will come in from the right side at the next
intersection and there will be some stationary enemies
on the walls of the alley. Concentrate on the stationary
ships whenever you see them because they go by really fast
while the flying creatures fly with you for a little while,
giving you a longer time to deal with them.
After the alleyway is over you will see a large "egg" looking
thing ahead that will pop open and release 6 smaller flying
creatures, as soon as it pops open lock-on to them and
blast them. Another "egg" is right after it so do the same.
Immediately after you kill the flying enemies from the
second egg the battleship you met before returns so just keep
locking-on to it and firing. Once and awhile the ship will
release some smaller ships and some will jump out of the
water so be ready and concentrate on them when they are
around, only hitting the ship when it's clear. There will be
a row of boats to the front-right after the battleship is
destroyed and then 2 directly in front of you RIGHT BEFORE
THE END OF THE LEVEL so don't miss them.
IIIg...Last Episode
IIIg1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
The Prototype Dragon, after reactivating the Tower with its
presence, morphs with the shell formed inside the Tower
creating a startling new creature and a monumental battle
began. Only the eye witness testimony of a few survivors knew
what happened and the remnants of the Empire oppressed their
stories as they didn't want people to know that nearly the
whole Empire was defeated by their stupidity of messing
with the Tower.
IIIg2...Boss battle - Prototype/Dark Dragon
The Prototype Dragon starts out behind you on the radar but
don't adjust the view because your dragon will automatically
follow him around and he'll end up smack dab in front of you
when its time to rock out.
At the very beginning get as many lock-ons as possible and
start firing away. Once he comes up towards you he'll release
some probes that float around his head. When one is killed it
shoots out a wave of bluish-green bullets at you so just keep
locking-on to the Dragons head and moving around the screen
at all times. The Prototype Dragon also shoots his normal
homing bullets at you which you can dodge or shoot if you
really need to.
Another one of his attacks (he seems to do his attacks more
random then the other bosses) while he's in front of you is
the sonic wave attack that he did the very first time you
fought him. The difference though this time the waves are
much longer and a lot faster...the same dodging pattern
applies here as before though, fly up or down to avoid them
and again, NEVER STOP MOVING.
When he flies to your rear he'll release a ton of tiny
creatures that will launch themselves at you but they can
easily be taken out before they become a threat if you're
fast with your regular gun.
After he moves to the front again he'll do a "tail swing"
move which does a lot of damage if he hits you with it. He'll
move towards you a little then swing his tail around from
right to left and you'll have to be quick in flying up or
down to avoid it.
After a couple of swings with his tail he'll pull back again
and release the probes around his head again and start to
charge up HIS laser...and it's a big laser btw. Anyways, keep
shooting like before, dodging the bullets that the probes
release when they die. You'll know when he finishes charging
up his laser because it will change colors until it's green,
then will fire a HUGE blast that does a crap load of damage.
Right when the color is about to turn green try to
immediately fly to the farthest corner from him and it should
miss you fine.
He should start repeating the same pattern now so finish him
off.
IIIh...Ending
IIIh1...Story details
**SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
After defeating the Prototype/Dark Dragon, the Blue
Dragon teleported Kyle to saftey and completed its destiny
by destroying the Tower. Kyle lived the rest of his life
normally and eventually faded from memory, telling his story
only to a few friends.
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IV...Secrets and Extras
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Panzer Dragoon is chock full of a ton of extras, most of them really
sweet (invincible mode) and some are...interesting (Manipulating the Segaman,
Suicide code). All of them are easy to input and are readily available
anywhere else on the net, which is where I found them...I just compiled them
here for your ease of use, I take absolutly no credit for them.
IVa...Invincible Mode - Just like it says, you're invincible.
At the main menu press L, L, R, R, Up, Down, Left, Right and the
words Invincible Mode should appear above the menu options.
IVb...Episode 0 - A secret episode above a lake where your health
constantly diminishes and shooting enemies replenishes it.
At the main menu press Up, Up, Up, Down, Down, Down, Left, Right,
Left, Right, Left, Right, L, R and the stage should start
automatically.
IVc...Stage Select - Select any stage.
At the main menu press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left,
Right, X, Y, Z and then the menu should change into a list of the
episodes. Just choose one and go.
IVd...Infinite continues - If invincibility is just to cheesy for you
then get yourself an unlimited amount of continues.
At the main menu press Up, X, Right, Y, Down, Z, Left, Y, Up, X and
you should hear a dragon cry. Now when you start you have infinite
continues.
IVe...Rolling Mode - In Rolling Mode, while you're playing, if you double
tap any of the DIAGONAL directions on the d-pad you will roll in
that direction...it's not all that practical game play wise but
it's cool looking.
At the main menu press Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Right, Down,
Left, Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Right, Down, Left and the words
Rolling Mode should appear above the menu options.
IVf...Weapon changing - A cool cosmetic code that lets you change some of
the ways some of the weapons look.
At the main menu press Up, X, Right, Y, Down, Z, Left, Y, Up, X and
you should hear a dragon cry. Now after you start a game during the
Episode 1 start screen with the black background you must press and
hold a button to get whatever effect you want. Hold down B for red
lasers, C for green lasers, Y for a multi-shot regular gun, or Z
for a penetration bullet.
IVg...Wizard mode - Woooaahhh...in Wizard Mode the game runs about 2
times as fast then it regularly does making a very good challenge.
At the main menu press L, R, L, R, Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right
and the words Wizard Mode should appear above the menu options.
IVh..."Space Harrier" mode - Kyle only on the screen. Without a
dragon you can only use the regular gun which makes the game pretty
hard.
First boot your Saturn up to the system menu then change the
language the German and start the game. At the main menu press X,
Right, X, Down, X, Left, X, Up, Y, Z and you should hear a dragon
cry. Start the game and relive the Space Harrier days!
IVi...Dragon only mode - Opposite of the "Space Harrier" mode because
you're just the dragon with no rider and can only use lock-ons.
To do this code you must FIRST put in the Weapon changing code,
then, at the main menu again, press Left, Left, Right, Right, Up,
Down, Up, Down, L, R and you should hear a dragon cry.
IVj...Manipulating the Segaman - After you let the demo movie run by
once a Sega logo shaped like a man should jump down...this is a way
to control him.
While he's on the screen press A + B + C + Start on a controller
plugged into the second player slot then on the first player
controller you can control him.
IVk...Suicide - You will die...joy...
Any time during the game if you press L + R + A + B + C your dragon
will automatically die. Joy.
IVl...Clean pause screen - Get rid of the word PAUSE in the middle of the
screen.
Just hit X + Y + Z while the game's paused and it should go away.
IVm...View the ending - Watch the ending without beating the game.
At the main menu press Up, Up, Down, Up, Right, Right, Left, Right,
Down, Down, Up, Down, Left, Left, Right, Left and the cinema should
start automatically.
IVn...View the secret screen you get if you beat it on Hard - Watch the
congradulations screen as if you just beat the game on hard.
At the main menu press Up, Up, Down, Up, Left, Left, Right, Left,
Down, Down, Up, Down, Right, Right, Left, Right and the cinema
should start automatically.
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V...Closing
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The first time I played Panzer Dragoon at a demo unit in Toys R Us I
was absolutely blown away by everything about it, much to the annoyance of my
mother whom I bugged NON-STOP to buy me it. I only had Guardian Heroes for my
Saturn at the time and too young for a job so eventually she bought it for me.
I love you Mom!
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