It’s one of the bitter ironies of video game consoles (at least old ones) that some of the most creative games come near the end of their lifespan. After having years and years to explore a system’s technical limits, programmers have a far greater understanding of what a system can do, only to give it all up in a year or two. Perhaps no console-to-console transition in gaming history has gone as poorly as when Sega was moving from the Genesis to the Saturn. And there’s at least one truly great game that was lost in the shuffle.
