Dinosaur Hunting ~The Lost Continent~ (X Box)

Something that's interesting about Japan-only X Box exclusives is that the console sold incredibly poorly in Japan, meaning that these games must have been played by very few people before the advent of emulation. Werider still is that there are at least two Japan only games for which exist fully translated English versions that never got released: this game (also known as Dinosaur Hunting: Ushinawareta Daichi), and Rent A Hero. The case of Dinosaur Hunting is even stranger, since it really feels like a precursor to all of those games from the PS3/360 era, wherein Japanese developers tried to make games specifically to appeal to stereotypical western "ball and gun" players. As you might have guess from the title, it's a third person shooter in which you hunt dinosaurs. But it's more interesting than that! Firstly, it can join Gungage and Cosmowarrior Zero in the ranks of third person shooters that don't use the generic twin stick controls. Though you do move your character with the…

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