1995 PC Engine game of the year

[spenoza]

1 for Kabuki, the under-appreciated fighting game!

[nat]

I agree, Kabuki is great. Just one great game out of many in 1995. But Sapphire and others were better.... 

[shubibiman]

Formation Soccer 95 is a great game too, but maybe not so interesting for american players.
I forgot about that one but I also think that Kabuki Itouryodan is 1995's greatest game (still, Linda Cube, Sapphire, Seiya Monogatari and Xanadu 2 are great games too).

[Black Tiger]

Itouryoden is a great game and gets bonus points for tying into Kabukiden. But its still a street fighting game and I'm biased towards questy/RPG stuff.

[Game and Watch Kirby]

A lot of these entries are a bit obsure to me here. I have decided to pick Kabuki: Ituryuden since it was quite an interesting game when I've first watched a video of its gameplay. It's nice that there is an option to play as Manto (or Manto X as the game refers to), since he/she is my obligied favorite Tengai Makyou character, closely followed by Kabuki (don't worry too much, SuperPCEngineGrafx ).

Other interesting entries are Ai Choanki, Ginga Fuki Densetsu Sapphie, Gulliver Boy, Renny Blaster, Space Invaders - The Original Game. All of these I've heard of a little before, but haven't had enough interest provoked out of them to determine if they can be highly likeable or not for me.

[geepee16]

i voted for xanadu ii and THEN i saw anearth.  aw man, it is a toss up.  still, i think i went with my heart on this one as xanadu ii blew me away in that the SNES ws getting all the rpg props at the time in the states and xii proved the pce could more than hold its own. i didn't own anearth until years and years later. had i had them both back then though...

sapphire was obviously awesome (though unfairly short) but it had the obvious advantage of the arcade card. also,while sapphire looks and sounds incredible, i don't feel it is as exciting a shooter as lords of thunder...yep, i said it. lords has the one thing sapphire doesn't: attitude. it's an unprogrammable intangible that i have rarely (if ever) seen in any shooter.   
 
and gulliver boy's hu video cut scenes were freaking awesome (and that game is in something of a nostalgic fave category).

[Tatsujin]

Ginger Sapphy all the way!

[ceti alpha]

I haven't played any of these games.    But I've seen plenty of gameplay videos and screenshots to make a somewhat educated vote. I was very tempted to pick Sapphire (I actually just purchased a copy of the "2nd Print"), but Anearth just looks too good to deny it FTW status. Sapphire looks like an early Playstation game - hell I've seen PS2 shooters that don't measure up, but from what I hear it's pretty short. Anearth gets the FTW for the more epic experience.

My opinion, of course, could easily change once I actually play these games. lol 

[spenoza]

I think Sapphire is a great technical accomplishment for the PCE, but it's definitely not the best game the system has to offer. It's a very good game, but there are so many other shooters on the system I like more.

[grahf]

I've been playing a lot of Xanadu II lately, so that gets my vote. Pretty easy, but lots of fun. It has enough variety to keep each part fresh.

[Tatsujin]

I think Sapphire is a great technical accomplishment for the PCE, but it's definitely not the best game the system has to offer. It's a very good game, but there are so many other shooters on the system I like more.

but in here, we talking about the best game of 1995. so the choice isn't that hard to set

[termis]

Of the ones I've played, Sapphire for sure.  It's certainly a showpiece game for the hardware, and a great shooter in its own right.

There are still some games on that list I'd like to try on the list, especially Xanadu II -- that one looks real good.

And just to be anal because I see the game often mis-transliterated in the west (even though it even sounds a bit awkward), it's Nekketsu Legend Baseballer.  ベースボーラー [baseballer] vs ベースボール [baseball]. 

[Sinistron]

A baseball rpg?  Hot shit someone should get to translating that puppy right away.

[spenoza]

I love the baseball armor, too. It looks... uh... very un-baseball-like.

[termis]

A baseball rpg?  Hot shit someone should get to translating that puppy right away.

Yeah, that's what I said when I first found out about it.  I knew it wasn't gonna happen anytime soon (if ever), so I just ended up playing through the JP version -- I wrote up a little review on it.

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=3582.0