Have you heard? Vay is coming to Steam! That’s right, the classic Sega CD role-playing game will be given a second life on PC, thanks to the same publisher that brought Lunar: Silver Star Story to iOS and Android. Both of these games originally came to America by way of Working Designs, the legendary company that specialized in localizing Japanese role-playing and strategy games on everything from the TurboGrafx-16 to the Saturn to the PlayStation 2. All this news about Vay and Lunar got me wondering what Electronic Gaming Monthly thought of Working Designs. Did they have a favorite game?

As it turns out, EGM reviewed a total of 27 games published by Working Designs between 1989 and 2008. That not only includes almost all of their best-known role-playing games, but also arcade ports, space shoot ‘em ups, classic game compilations and even side-scrolling platformers. Sure, EGM skipped over Cadash and a few of the smaller titles, but I guarantee that you’re not going to be disappointed by this list. What we’re going to do today is count down the best and worst Working Designs games using Electronic Gaming Monthly’s own words and scores. There’s no editorializing here, we’re just going to focus on what the critics said back when these games first came out. I hope you’re ready for some dated political jokes from the 1990s, because this is what happens when EGM Ranks Working Designs.

0:00 – Introduction
1:37 – Commercial: Shining Wisdom (Japan)
2:07 – Vay (Sega CD)
2:40 – Arc the Lad Collection (PlayStation)
3:37 – Shining Wisdom (Saturn)
4:23 – Vanguard Bandits (PlayStation)
5:17 – Parasol Stars (TurboGrafx-16)
5:43 – Sega Ages (Saturn)
6:09 – Silpheed: The Lost Planet (PlayStation 2)
6:56 – Gungriffon Blaze (PlayStation 2)
7:44 – Cosmic Fantasy 2 (TurboGrafx-16)
8:10 – RayCrisis: Series Termination (PlayStation)
8:59 – Magic Knight Rayearth (Saturn)
9:33 – Exile (TurboGrafx-16)
9:58 – Exile: Wicked Phenomenon (TurboGrafx-16)
10:29 – Commercial: Lunar (Japan)
10:48 – Growlanser Generations (PlayStation 2)
11:29 – Thunder Force V (PlayStation)
12:04 – Lunar: The Silver Star (Sega CD)
12:27 – Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (PlayStation)
13:18 – Lunar: Eternal Blue (Sega CD)
13:55 – Popful Mail (Sega CD)
14:27 – Iron Storm (Saturn)
15:17 – Elemental Gearbolt (PlayStation)
15:50 – Silhouette Mirage (PlayStation)
16:25 – Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean (Saturn)
16:56 – RayStorm (PlayStation)
17:23 – Alundra (PlayStation)
17:57 – Lunar: Silver Star Storm Complete (PlayStation)
18:35 – Dragon Force (Saturn)
19:31 – Commercial: Dragon Force II (Saturn)
19:47 – Question of the Day

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