History VideoGame / BurningRangers

** Both the English and Japanese versions of the vocal theme "Angels with Burning Hearts" sneak in a Shout-Out to Sonic Team themselves in [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] form. ("'''S'''ight '''o'''f '''n'''ight, '''I c'''heer '''t'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic") The lyric is debated, though, as it would make more sense for it to be "Sight of night, I cheer to embrace ''the'' magic". That said, ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone 2'' confirms the intended shout-out with the slightly-altered line "'''S'''oar, '''O n'''oble '''I'''carus! '''C'''ome! '''T'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic!"

''Burning Rangers'' is a ThirdPersonShooter (of sorts) on the Platform/SegaSaturn. Developed by Creator/SonicTeam and dreamed up by Yuji Naka (and others) this game is perhaps the best in-house Creator/{{Sega}} game for the Saturn.

* AllThereInTheManual: The characters actually have quite a bit of backstory to them, such as Big's robotic parts resulting from a previous accident in his career and Chris's motivation for being a Ranger due to the death of her father.

** Health in the game is handled with crystals; as long as you have one crystal on hand which can be dotted throughout the level or from fires you've extinguished, you cannot die. [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Where have we heard this before...?]]

''Burning Rangers'' is a ThirdPersonShooter (of sorts) on the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. Developed by Creator/SonicTeam and dreamed up by Yuji Naka (and others) this game is perhaps the best in-house Creator/{{Sega}} game for the Saturn.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Shou/Tillis.
** TheChick: Tillis/Shou.
** TheBigGuy: [[MeaningfulName Big]].
** TheLancer: Reed.
** TheSmartGuy: Chris.
** SixthRanger: [[spoiler: Iria]].
* FiveTokenBand: AllThereInTheManual reveals the nationalities (save Tillis) of each character;
** Shou is from Japan.
** Reed comes from Europe
** Chris hails from America.
** Big is from Africa.

** "We Are Burning Rangers!" contains a double shout out: A lyric from the [[Music/WuTangClan GZA]] song, which was itself a shout out to Creator/WesCraven, director of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', with the line "Giving nightmares like Wes Crave!"

** "We Are Burning Rangers!" contains a shout out to Creator/WesCraven, director of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', with the line "Giving nightmares like Wes Crave!"

* GameplayGrading

%%* UnexpectedShmupLevel

* ShoutOut: Health in the game is handled with crystals; as long as you have one crystal on hand which can be dotted throughout the level or from fires you've extinguished, you cannot die. [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Where have we heard this before...?]]

** Both the English and Japanese versions of the vocal theme "Angels with Burning Hearts" sneak in a Shout-Out to Sonic Team themselves in [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] form. ("'''S'''ight '''o'''f '''n'''ight, '''I c'''heer '''t'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic") The lyric is debated, though, as it would make more sense for it to be "Sight of night, I cheer to embrace ''the'' magic". That said, ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone 2'' confirms the intended shout-out with the slightly-altered line "'''S'''oar, '''o n'''oble '''I'''carus! '''C'''ome! '''T'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic!"

** Both the English and Japanese versions of the vocal theme "Angels with Burning Hearts" sneak in a Shout-Out to Sonic Team themselves in [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] form. ("'''S'''ight '''o'''f '''n'''ight, '''I c'''heer '''t'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic") The lyric is debated, though, as it would make more sense for it to be "Sight of night, I cheer to embrace ''the'' magic". ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone2'' reaffirms this, however, with the slightly-altered line "'''S'''oar, '''o n'''oble '''I'''carus! '''C'''ome! '''T'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic!"

** Both the English and Japanese versions of the vocal theme "Angels with Burning Hearts" sneak in a Shout-Out to Sonic Team themselves in [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] form. ("'''S'''ight '''o'''f '''n'''ight, '''I c'''heer '''t'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic") The lyric is debated, though, as it would make more sense for it to be "Sight of night, I cheer to embrace ''the'' magic". ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone2'' reaffirms this, however, with the slightly-altered line "'''S'''oar, '''o n'''oble '''I'''carus! '''C'''ome! '''T'''o 'e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic!"

** Fans believe that the English version of "Angels with Burning Hearts" sneaked in a Shout-Out to Sonic Team themselves in [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] form. ("'''S'''ight '''o'''f '''n'''ight '''I c'''heer '''t'''o '''e'''mbrace '''a m'''agic") [[SubvertedTrope This is not true;]] the line goes "Sight of night I cheer to embrace ''the'' magic".

[[caption-width-right:246:''[[EarWorm Just do it! Just Burning Rangers!]]'']]

* TitleThemeTune: A very EarWorm one at that.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel
* YeahShot: Tillis's ending.

While the game hasn't received a sequel and is potentially the least successful game Sonic Team has ever made, it's still fondly remembered to this day and receives cameos and references in some of Sega's games. (Especially the [[AwesomeMusic songs]].) Yosuke Okunari, head of Sega's recent re-releases, has stated that if ''[[VideoGame/NiGHTSIntoDreams NiGHTs HD]]'' sells well, he will attempt to [[https://twitter.com/okunari/status/253453198227017728 propose a HD re-release]] of ''Burning Rangers'' as well. The ball is in your court, fans.

** The third stage has sectors throughout the level named after stages from ''[=NiGHTS=]'', such as Twin Seed St.

** The third stage has sectors throughout the level named after stages from ''NiGHTS'', such as Twin Seed St.

While the game hasn't received a sequel and is potentially the least successful game Sonic Team has ever made, it's still fondly remembered to this day and receives cameos and references in some of Sega's games. (Especially the [[AwesomeMusic songs]].) Yosuke Okunari, head of Sega's recent re-releases, has stated that if ''[[NiGHTsIntoDreams NiGHTs HD]]'' sells well, he will attempt to [[https://twitter.com/okunari/status/253453198227017728 propose a HD re-release]] of ''Burning Rangers'' as well. The ball is in your court, fans.

The game it set in the near future as we follow an elite team of fire-fighters. They respond to any major incident by: hopping into their spacecraft, teleporting down, subduing the fires by shooting lasers at them and reducing them into crystals, using their jetpacks to navigate the terrain, before finally teleporting the survivors off onto their spaceship. Throughout the game we fight malfunctioning robots and save people in: a factory of some sort, an underwater aquarium, a orbiting space station and a man-made asteroid.

'''''Burning Rangers''''' is a ThirdPersonShooter (of sorts) on the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. Developed by Creator/SonicTeam and dreamed up by Yuji Naka (and others) this game is perhaps the best in-house Creator/{{Sega}} game for the Saturn.