SEGA Saturn

Sakura Taisen

Title screen

Complex machinery of steam-punk era

Introducing the characters: Sakura, the title heroine.

All the heroes together

View over the old Imperial Capital

The hero, Oogami Ichirou

Choose your answer before time expires!

You know with 90% certainty that a Japanese game will include an annoying little girl who calls the hero "big brother" and hugs a teddy bear.

Navigating the hero in top-down mode through the theater building.

You meet Maria for the first time.

The drunk idiot Komeda, who happens to be your boss.

Here the game allows you to save and also to view the statistics of the girls.

The color changes to stylish blue as night falls over Japan.

Graceful dance, Sakura and Sumire

She... doesn't look very happy.

Some of the game's cut scenes, especially those that include robots and such, are done in CG.

Enemy robots are vandalizing property.

The evil-evil-EVIL guys. The chick looks kinda hot, if you ask me.

Sakura might be in a pink robot, but she can still pack quite a punch.

Performing a special attack. The robot looks as if it was sweating from the effort.

Ya talkin' to me?!.. Poor enemy robot can't withstand Ichirou's onslaught.

The cheesy "Victory Pose"