Time Stalkers

Time Stalkers, also known as Climax Landers (クライマックス ランダーズ)[1] in Japan, is a Dreamcast role-playing video game featuring appearances of worlds (and playable characters) from several of Climax Entertainment's earlier games in crossover fashion. The player initially takes the role of Sword, a character caught in a world made of many worlds. As he goes along, similar heroes show up for the player to control. The player may do things such as enter dungeons, take special assignments, and upgrade/buy/sell items.

For the 1987 adventure science fiction film, see Timestalkers.
Time Stalkers
North American Dreamcast cover art
Developer(s)Climax Entertainment
Publisher(s)Sega
Platform(s)Dreamcast
Release
  • JP: September 15, 1999
  • NA: September 30, 1999
  • EU: November 10, 2000
Genre(s)Roguelike, role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

Time Stalkers is an RPG with party members consisting of classic Climax characters as well as in game enemies you can collect and train. The title boasts an impressive catalog of VMU minigames. The battle system combines RTS and turned based out of phase situational combat. The enemies appear on screen and transition to individual arrangements for RTS style combat. 30-60 hour gameplay and multiple endings.

Reception

Time Stalkers was met with mixed reviews. Pete Bartholow of GameSpot gave the game a negative review, criticizing its "traditional" story, randomized dungeon layouts, ugly graphics, and most particularly the resetting of experience points at the beginning of each dungeon. He concluded by advising gamers to instead get the "vastly superior" Evolution: The World of Sacred Device (the Dreamcast's only other RPG at that time), and gave Time Stalkers an overall score of 5.2.[3] IGN gave the game a 6.5, and praised the unique overworld and the monster capture mechanic. However, like GameSpot, they took issue with the resetting of experience points, and also complained of the game's concise dialogue and short length.[4]

Jeff Lundrigan for Next Generation, rated it three stars out of five, and stated that "It ain't bad, but the Dreamcast RPG audience needs more than this generic fix."[5]

References
  1. "Game data". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
  2. "Time Stalkers for Dreamcast". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  3. Bartholow, Peter (November 16, 1999). "Time Stalkers Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  4. "Time Stalkers (aka Climax Landers)". IGN. April 5, 2000. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  5. Lundrigan, Jeff (June 2000). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 3 no. 6. Imagine Media. p. 96.
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