Time Stalkers
Time Stalkers, also known as 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. 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. The game takes between 30-60 hours to complete and features 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" "" (the Dreamcast's only other RPG at that time), and gave "Time Stalkers" an overall score of 5.2. "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. 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."