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The Legend of Dragoon Review
User Submitted The Legend of Dragoon Reviews
Date: 2008-10-09
Sony did a wonderful job.....
This game will always and unfortunately be compared to square's final fantasy VII. Sony unfortunately brought that upon themselves with the main character looking similar to Cloud and Lloyd having silver hair like Sephiroth. Despite all that Sony put out an excellent game that noone should miss.
Story: The story starts 10,000 years before Dart and company and brings along many twists and takes you along an epic journey. There are evil emperors and dragons to fight and control as you progress throughout the game. Again, the story is as old and original as you can get, boy likes girl, girl gets kidnapped, boy saves girl and world. Again remember its not the story itself but how the story is told that makes it great. There is a lot more to the story with 9 different playable characters each bringing their own story into the mix to help complicate the ultimate goal.
Graphics: This game is visually stunning from the cg clips that help drive the story along to the random battles. 3-D battles with stunning visual armor and Dragoon transformations are done really well. Dragons look rather funny, but everyone has there own take on how dragons should look, I wasn't to fond of most of them as some didn't look like dragons to me. I still don't understand why games like this and final fantasy don't have their characters armor change when you go into fight modes. They could take some notes from the makers of Legend of Legaia.
Combat System: I did like the "addition" system but an option to just hit a button and go through some random battles would've been nice. Dragoon transformation was awesome and unfortunately can be a rather long and annoying process making some boss battles last over 30 min's and thats with the shorter transformations. Magic usage was dissapointing as you can only use them while in Dragoon form and you only get 4 spells per character except Kongol who only gets 3. The spells and dragon summons are nicely done and Rose has a well....its different thats for sure. It would have been nice to change out Dart in the party so you could use different character combinations. For the most part its nicely done and an enjoyment to use.
Characters: Dart is your main character who is afraid to admit his emotions to Shana. Shana is your heroine who gets kind of annoying with self confidence issues but is easily overlooked. Rose is your quiet and mysterious character who is probably the most loved character in the game. Lavitz becomes Darts best friend in the game and is a loyal knight to the King. Albert is the King in the country you live in and is a key part in the beginning of the story. Haschel is an old martial arts and tries to be the comedic guy in the party. Kongol is your typical "dumb" strong guy and is used in most of your battles. Meru is your fun loving annoying character who has a lot of energy. Lastly there is Miranda who I thought was only a space filler and brings nothing to the table storywise or in fights.
Music: I liked all the music from the battle music to the love story music and all. The diologue was about average for rpg's but with everything going the way it was going at the time they needed to bring a more realistic and mature dialogue to the table.
The game is four-discs long and you can put in 65+ hours easily. The bad diologue is a turn-off for a lot of most gamers but you can easily figure out what is being said. The linear exploration of the world map wasn't great but did keep you progressing in the story and kept things moving along. Overall the cons in the game are easily over looked and forgotten about. This game gets an easy 5 out of 5 as Sony put together an extraordinary rpg that needs a sequel.
Date: 2008-10-04
Great game, not sure if its compatible with the newer ps2's though.
Sometimes the game will freeze after a boss fight. It is a greatest hits version though, and I think it might not be completely compatible with the newer slim ps2's.
Date: 2008-09-15
Overrated
"I will stop you to go forward" the portal watcher of Ulara said to me, the main protagonist. Of course what she meant was "I won't let you pass."
Above is just one hilarious example of the terrible dialogue in this game. The dialogue is consistently this bad throughout the entire game, demeaning the characters, story, and entire game to amateur level.
Dungeons are the heart of this game's gameplay, which are long and tedious. Same areas are used in different locations with at least one battle in each area. The numerous battles and repetitious dungeons make the gameplay incredibly slow and dry.
Supposedly this game is well known for its cool battle quirks. This is true, almost everything you do in a battle is effected in some way by player performance. However I did not find this to be enjoyable. After hundreds of battles I was pleading for the game to automate my attacks. Repetition of button-timing and button-mashing mini games during battles became tiresome extremely fast.
Soundtrack was quite nice though, paralleling Final Fantasy series quality. This however doesn't make up for the rest of this mess.
With poor story and gameplay, this game is not something I enjoyed playing.
Date: 2008-09-06
wow
Just the best. This and Final Fantasy 7 are fighting for the spot in best RPG when this one is just a one shot game with no sequals. but why is it so special? well because of Everything!!!!!!!!!! This game is absolutly amazing. It will have you playing for days days and more days for its 4 disc set the game is very lengthy. And the fighting style is FF style with a twist. The game is very interactive wich keeps it from getting very boring. Unlinke other games. the things you do in battle all have to do with interaction, its not just perssing the "attack" button and chosing a target anymore. You press attack and chose someone then you have to press X at the given times to do the most damage and get SP(spirit points i believe). And with attack items you repitevly press X to keep the attack going building damage. And when your in your special form your attacks are interactive as well but i wont get into that. The writing is great and the voice acting in some scenes are excelent. Its above perfect! A Must have!!!
Date: 2008-08-30
Great Game Bad Glitch
I absolutely love this game. It is by far the best one for PS1 however for some reason my copy has a bad glitch after a boss fight on disc 2. Fight works great but when you try to continue you get a beutiful black screen. Have done all I can. No scratches, new game, bad glitch.
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