One Of Sega’s Oldest Strategy RPGs Is Coming To 3DS Virtual Console

By Spencer . January 30, 2013 . 2:32am

Crystal Warriors or, as it’s known in Japan Ariel: Crystal Legend, is an internationally developed strategy RPG from Sega. The game came out for Game Gear in 1991, a year before Shining Force.

 

Crystal Warriors will be re-released as a 300 yen ($3.30) Virtual Console download in Japan on February 6. Sega marketed the game in North America with a fantasy artwork montage…

 

 

… but in Japan the game had super deformed character art drawn by Kugatsuhime. Take a look at concept art for Ariel and other characters below.