He'll start off equipped with the short sword and shield. The undertaking begins with your sluggish protagonist sliding, gliding, and shuffling along oddly in his furry boots. You're given three lives and three continues to complete a five area, ten level mission. Our hero can slash while standing, ducking, and leaping, and is even able to slash directly downward while airborne, performing savage lobotomies on even more savage creatures. Still, at least this Genesis version does have all the basics intact, thankfully. The power was there - it was the programming prowess that was away on maternity leave. Would they achieve better results with their sequel? Well, Rastan Saga II has the luxury of being on a superior system certainly one would think that the Genesis had the power to do a near arcade perfect port (witness Strider). Taito took the exciting, but limited coin-op to the home market via the Sega Master System, and the results were less than superb. Taito's side-scrolling hack and slash arcade game known as Rastan on North American shores is known as Rastan Saga in Japan (so it would follow that Rastan Saga II there, should have been Rastan II here, but it doesn't - don't lose any sleep over this). Doubt the authenticity of this nonsense? Never fear, Taito has laced the game with more than its fair share of kitsch gibberish in the brooding screens between levels. A brave savage must turn the tide! I couldn't make this up if I wanted to, believe me. An evil contingent has moved in and taken over the Skyscraper by force. "Ī mysterious edifice known as ''Skyscraper'' controls the land of Rastania somehow. "A mysterious edifice known as ''Skyscraper'' controls the land of Rastania somehow.