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This is an old, old game by this point, but I've been replaying a lot of games recently, and really have been wanting to go at this one again! It's so much fun, and I had a blast with it when I was a kid.
Did anyone else play it? Love it? Hate it? I don't remember it being very popular; I only knew one other person who played it. A guy at GameStop once scoffed at me for liking it too. :mad:
Opinions? :p
Poor Lavitz :(
OMG! I borrowed it from a friend years ago... and forgot to give it back... >.>
It's such a fun game!!! :D
I love this game! The way it had you attack was cool to me. Cause everything else at the time was like you just had to sit and watch an attack. This game made me feel like I was actually important and engaged in it :D
There was one point of voice acting in the game.
Meru: "Look Dart, is that it?"
Dart: "Yeah."
Wonderful use of voice acting. Great game though.
Voice acting was used in a few cutscenes, as well as the announcment of the attacks names. :p
Omg! Voice acting was atrocious in the game.
"The Black Monster?!"
I used to die listening to it. Or when Rose eventually found out who Zieg was: "Ohhhh, it cannot be!"
Other than that, I loved the battle system, and being able to turn into the dragoons and get a whole new set of attacks was great. My favorite was Meru; I liked the hammer as a weapon, the water element, and the blue color appealed to me. 8D
I hated Shana. :mad: Miranda was much better, and had mommy issues.
Who did everyone else like?
Rose, easily my favorite character out of that game.
Legend of the Dragoon is a great example of a game that isn't so high on itself as the next coming of the genre. It isn't outstanding in the least, just very fun to play.
Laaaaaaaaviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitz!
My favorite two to keep with me was albert and rose/haschel...ok anyone but meru...probably cause last time I played it I was still all emo-ish so happy people got on my nerves. I just like how albert was...well albert....a king not so full of himself that he could do the fighting on the front lines to. Kongal(ol?) was so freaking powerful that it wasnt funny in my game.
But saddening to me, I trusted someone for the first time in ages(my manager) and let him borrow my copy. His dumbass left it on the hood of his car...it fell off and smashed the case open and the discs stayed there for a day or so cause they couldnt find it, and it got pollen all over it and idk if itll work when I clean it:(:(:(
smurf those mother smurfers. I had someone do the exact same thing to me for buying PSOne memory cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
This is yet another game that I own but haven't beaten. Need to get on that. I've attempted many times but I always seem to stop around the same place: somewhere around some gravity-related valley or something, I think. I don't really remember.
OMG. This is a game I should be looking for at that new used game story that opened. :D
:eek: Oh man, I think the game gets so much better a few missions after this. I can't remember the exact city. By the time you're looking for the signets though, I was so into the plot.Quote:
This is yet another game that I own but haven't beaten. Need to get on that. I've attempted many times but I always seem to stop around the same place: somewhere around some gravity-related valley or something, I think. I don't really remember.
Replay! Replay!
The Virage you fight in the valley of corrupted gravity was such a hard boss for a 12 year old me :p
Disk 3 is where the plot really starts to kick up though. :p
See, a girl at GameStop grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the store to buy Legend of Dragoon from me when I went to try and trade it in (she's not allowed to do personal sales on store property). I was amused.
Legend of Dragoon shouldn't be as good as it is, it's ropey, it has an atrocious translation, but god damn I do love it. Has some great music as well;
YouTube - MUSIC: Legend of Dragoon - World Map 2
YouTube - MUSIC: Legend of Dragoon - Royal Castle
I really hated that linear world map too. Now I just miss world maps in general.
I'll see if I can find a link...
seems that was an old story from 1999 that didn't pan out.
There is a petition for a sequel:
"The Legend of Dragoon 2" Petition
and this...:
Uncovering three of the unannounced titles at TGS ‘09 « PlayStation University
more later...:D
exactly the same here, but when I turned 15 it was easy as could be lolQuote:
Originally Posted by qwertysaur
I was halfway through the last disc when my mom accidently vacuumed it. :/
Love it though.
sorry.
Too bad about the disc.
Legend of Dragoon 2: The Time is Now | RPG Land: RPG reviews, wallpapers, news and more since 1999.
too true...:D
I would SO purchase a Legend of Dragoon two. But I don't even know what it could be about. I can't exactly remember how the game ends... Melbu Frahma... eh.
The game does have some good music. And great locations! I loved that water city, whatever it was called. And that flower city. And some of those old cities where you searched for the signets were fun to wander around in. :p
I honestly don't remember it "hitting the big time". Maybe I was too young. I didn't know many who played it at all.
I've always been surprised by how much clamor there is for a sequel.
They could do FF style and just have a totally new story, characters, setting, etc.
I have a copy of this & played about 20 hours into it just before I got my PS3 during the summer, I must make the effort to go back & finish it at some point a horribly under rated PS One game thats for sure!
Nostalgia would compel me to pre-order LoD 2 and play it to completion. That said, LoD is a solid enough game with a fun (if I recall) battle system and some great visuals and music.
I had increadible bad luck with this game, the first time I bought it I completed and loved the game, untill the day I stupidly lent it to a mother smurfer who I never saw again, the second time I bought it I had it for a week before it was stolen at my brothers birthday party >.<
If I had to choose a favorite character it would definatly be Lavitz he is just the best, on the flip side I was quite dissapointed with his replacement Albert... his voice was just wrong.
He sounded like Tom Hanks.
He was my favorite. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by qwertysaur
lol I totally agree. The game is pretty uneven. It seems like for every positive there's a negative. The music is awesome; the voice acting is terrible. The game has some great plot twists and an incredible backstory; the translation is botched. The battle system is a lot of fun; boss battles drag on foreeeeeeeeever and the game is really repetitive. The prerendered backgrounds give Chrono Cross a run for its money; the character models are bland. Etc, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
I had a total blast with the game, though. It had some great secrets. I looooooved the Divine Dragon (but hated (SPOILER)the Divine Dragoon). Also, the whole concept and visual execution of the Dragoons was fantastic. I'm still dying for a sequel. I would buy it day one.
This game wasn't a masterpiece but it was so fun. I did love the execution of the dragoons, and I actually liked the character models, haha... really campy though.
Does anyone remember that awkward special attack, Astral Drain though? With Rose? With the blood? :|
I remember Rose having an attack that opened the freakin gates of HELL. And it didn't do very good damage.
I remember watching it and thinking 'omg this is going to be amazing' and then when the damage popped up I was so disappointed.Quote:
Originally Posted by McLovin'
Being a huge Sailor Moon fan at the time, I loved the transformations! :love:
It was pretty great back when I played it, even though the battle system felt incredibly limited. I also found the ending very unsatisfying. Mainly because I really didn't like the idea of (SPOILER)Rose dying. :(
Well, you guys have convinced me. I've tried playing through it a few times but couldn't get past the bad translation, but I'm gonna give it another try.
It's probably worth sticking with, because it is a fairly fun game despite the flaws.
I'll tell you one thing, I could never get the top level of the transformation moves, the one where the thing spins around? Hard as balls.
Man getting me nostalgic up in this piece. I always wanted this game. I got to try a demo of it back in the day some place. It might've been in a gamestop when they didn't use to be everywhere. This was also around the time when I had the chance to play a demo of Threads of Fate, which I'm sure was at the Gamestop in the mall. Man I have to get this.
It was completely badass when all 3 characters had their dragoon bar thingy full and you could transform them all at the same time. I remember that saving my ass a few times. Oh and it was always epic.
The television commercial for the game was amusing from what I recall. The main villain gets decapitated and starts whining about Dart cutting his head off. :D
found it for youQuote:
Originally Posted by Rad Bromance
YouTube - Legend of Dragoon - Commercial
another commercial to
YouTube - Legend of Dragoon old trailer
Man, watching those really made me want to play it again. Come one PSN, dammit.
The localization/script is weird, and the whoosh before battles takes forever, but I love the battle system and music. This game should definitely be remade.
Lloyd was an odd villain. I liked him. I liked how he was "Hooded Man" for so long, as if we couldn't figure out who that was. My god, you could see the outline of his clothes in the "Hooded Man" art in the game book.
I didn't play very far into it because I found the battle system to be completely ridiculous. If I remember right I stopped just after breaking out of prison. I didn't enjoy timing button pushes to a spinning square at all.
O____O I thought my friends and I were the only ones that ever noticed that! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Clo
Haha, holy smurf. I remember that commercial from back in the day. Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Masamunemasterfound it for youQuote:
Originally Posted by Rad Bromance
YouTube - Legend of Dragoon - Commercial
another commercial to
YouTube - Legend of Dragoon old trailer
he was much better at it than I was.
Yes we completed the game and we loved it.
There are still rumors of a sequel but nothing complete/confirmed.So let's hope one day we see one.:)
I liked pretty much everyone in this game (even the bad guys), the story just seemed to untangle so slowly. Kongol... didn't he have a Kimahri complex?
Yeah, well, that gravity field sure does crank up the encounter rate... yeesh. I thought the final boss battle dragged on and on and wondered if the guy would die. Lemme see... that thing was... a larva-thing, I think. Maybe my level was just too low, because I had to use every item in my inventory just to stay alive.Quote:
This is yet another game that I own but haven't beaten. I've attempted many times but I always seem to stop around the same place: somewhere around some gravity-related valley or something.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Clo
I once wrote a fanfic sequel. I include a ballet dancer and a fisherman to make the characters more unique. One of them was, I think, the only race not to become a playable character in the original game. You know, you got your Giganto and your Wingly, but there were more. Well, I at least know I used a tiny one. My story didn't make it very far though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
OMG. Isn't that the one where she hovers into the air and spreads her legs? That whole sequence is damned awkward.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
I could do it here and there. Though it could get frustrating. I still wonder if Kongol was supposed to have more Additions.Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
lol Damn, I forgot about that. I'd even forgotten it when I started playing the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rad Bromance
I HATE that thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeromus_X
That reminds me: I read a fanfic once (I've read like three in my lifetime besides My Immortal, so this is hefty stuff) about the lives of the old dragoons. I LOVED that back story! With the original dragoons! I remember being so interested in all the old characters, wondering what their stories were like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercen-X
amazing game, loved the team kongol/dart/rose kongol was worthless without legendary casque/bandit boots/bandit scarf but the best with it... the story was great and unfolded in just about the perfect way... a little strange about the red/black egg there at the end...
did anyone beat faust? if he wasn't the most rediculous boss in the game then you didn't fight him
Dear lord this game was and still is amazing. I actually was at Toys R' Us many years ago when I saw it, it came down to get that or Chrono Cross. I got LoD first :D Chrono Cross came a few years later. Let me tell you, as much as I love CC, I'm glad I got LoD first. After that day, I never saw it for sale ever again. I'll agree though that the voice acting...leaves something to be desired...One of the best games, and when I was younger, it was incredibly challenging! I'm going to have to play it again, I think...
Merged this with the already existing thread on the subject. -Rantzien
I made a post about parasite eve which got me wanting to make this thread. How many people have played the four disk playstation 1 gamebrought to you by square soft. I know I have.
It just so happens its an RPG that I can play besides the final fantasy games. I liked it so much that I learned everything for every character. I also mastered the additions. I even went and bought Legends of manna from game stop to see what it was like. Sadly it didn't work and I wasted my money.
Even so, how did you like the games? Would you like to see more like it? Have you played or finished it?
Also... This game has one of my most favorite endings in any game I have ever played. Peace!
Legend of Dragoon was made by Sony actually.
I played about half of it once and it was decent but nothing special. Still, for a first effort at a major 3D RPG it was pretty impressive what they pulled off. Shame they didn't make another game at least even if it wasn't a sequel just to see if they could improve from there.
Didn't they make Legaia? Or was that just published by Sony? Or I'm just way off base
Regardless. I've recently hacked my PSP and now have a vast collection of old-school gaming goodness on the go. And decided since the PSP is so good at emulating PSOne and I no longer have any -other- kind of Playstation, I should go back and check out the games I missed. This being one of them. (I tried getting Chrono Cross, but the RAR fails to unpack right at 100% -_-) So I'll be giving this game a try for the first time in the very near future~
Thread merge caused double post; merged posts -> Success! -Rantzien
I -thought- the other thread seemed rather short. There's 2 Dragoon threads xD So I'll just reiterate here since this is the real thread. I just put Dragoon on my PSP to try it out for the first time. Yey
Edit: Crap... Its in Spanish. Gotta download it again -_- Oh well lol...
Looks good though o.o
Legaia was made by an internal developer with SCEI, but I can't find out if they were the same team or even if they had members of the same team as Legend of Dragoon since the developer for it is just listed as SCEI. Since Legaia came out before Dragoon though I'd guess they were made by different teams, but both within Sony. Maybe someone else out there in the internet would know more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
Haha way to go, Rantz!
Well I managed to get another copy of Dragoon. Along with about 7 other games, which unfortunately put me in the mood for other stuff. But I'll get to it soon! Assuming it works this time. But my luck on downloads hasn't been too bad, really
Also I love the graphics in this game. Its right when the PS was starting to get used to the whole 3D thing, with a little pre-rendering, and everything's blocky and cute. I loved that look in Xenogears, and Legaia, and Grandia, etc. So this game is definitely my style~
Oh I totally agree about the graphics! I think the blockiness looked doll-like and cute, and I loved it in Legend of Legaia to (or at least in the battle system). Also, I enjoyed the color scheme of LoD, which is a strange comment, but I DIIDD.
Surprisingly I'd started playing this game not too long ago. I need to finish up the last three dungeons but I'm far too lazy for that.
The Addition system is really great and the last time I saw something like it was in an MMO made by Level 5 not too long ago. I forgot the name though. Galaxy something.
I wouldn't mind them remaking this game, but I think the farthest it will ever go will be a download on the PSN or ported to the PSP. Which would be interesting on the PSP. If they tried to make a sequel though, then the storyline would have to be mad legit for me to like it.
Oh you mean like how their clothing matched their element?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clo
Ha! I just fired it up. Time has not been kind to this game. I forgot how ugly they were -outside- of battle xD Still cute but in kind of an ugly way. I guess maybe their character "sprites" (models?) outside of battle hadn't quite made it to the time period I was talking about. But yeah. They look a lot better in-battle. At least FF7 knew its limitations and tried to stylize the ugliness outside of battle to the cute little popeye lego characters lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Clo
Just beat the game a few minutes ago. The Melbu Frahma fights were pretty much a joke but I really enjoyed the last scene with all the characters' epilogues...watery eyes and all. :-(
I really enjoyed the game. I remember back when I got my Playstation magazine demo, I wasn't really impressed but a few years later I decided to buy it since it was on sale for dirt cheap. It was actually really fun when starting from the beginning. I liked the battle system immensely. I wished there was a little more story to it, but it was decent enough. Just talking about it gets me in the mood to play it again.
My game crashed :[ apparently going Dragoon in certain boss fights (usually main human enemies) on emulated versions makes the game hang at the end of the fight. So now I gotta go back and try to win without going Dragoon. Phooey...
That sounds terrible! I was always dependent on the Dragoon transformations, I never tried a battle without it. Which battle?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
I think his name was Duke? I'm still on the first disk. But I hear the same thing happens later on if you transform fighting some chick who's name begins with an L... And after looking it up again, it appears her name is Lenus. So yeah. Those to crash the game. Possibly others
That's strange, I never had that problem on mine. And I think your "Duke" is actually Emperor Doel!
No. First disk. He's some thief thing. He sets traps and stuff. I have a feeling he's either going to be a good guy or neutral. Only fighting because he assumes we came to steal some treasure. His name might be Drake
he's the one gaurding the water temple or whatever, he's not very hard, but you'll have a problem with lenus unless you save up for a legendary casque, just giving you a heads up, her magic attacks+dragon magic attacks are rough, but with a casque, and possibly meru in the party you shouldn't have too much problems, the thief just takes fighting the battle the right way :D and possibly a few magic attack items
I don't do a whole lot more damage as a Dragoon. So the idea of going through the game without transformations doesn't really bother me in itself. But with the retardedly low item limit amount, using Rose to heal as a Dragoon kinda comes in handy. Without becoming dragoons I'd need magic items and healing items aplenty. And there's not enough room to really make up for the lack of casting actual spells. If there wasn't such a low limit I'd just stock up and rough it out. But as it stands, I think I might have to call it quits. I beat Drake and tested it out on the chick after him and the game hung then too. So I think a lot of boss fights here on in are gonna be a problem. Not impossible, but just a little too annoying for me. Do you ever get to carry more than just 32 items?
nope
32 is always the max. Until you get Meru, attacking items are somewhat useless unless you use Shana in your main party. I played most of the game without transformations either (with the exception of Meru transforming to heal the party) and it wasn't that hard.
I adore the game <3
Fantastic Soundtrack, World and pretty <3
I always used Meru. She was stronger than Shana and had healing attacks!
Duke isn't very far into the game at all. The game has epic amounts to go.
The spell items do 2 - 3 times as much damage as my standard attacks. Easily on par with casting spells as a dragoon. So that would definitely come in handy. Its just more annoying because I'm getting hit harder than I can heal by defending. So I'd need plenty of healing items during a boss fight. And my inventory consists of more than just spell and healing items. If I'd forgo transformations I'd have to make sure my inventory is nothing but healing and spell items. But then what happens when I get poisoned or something. 32 is a retarded limit. This isn't Resident EvilQuote:
Originally Posted by Pride
i've beaten the game without using dragoon more than 2 or 3 times, mostly it involves a little extra grinding at every locations, an extra 2-5 levels at a boss makes it extremely different. also make sure you get the bandits shoes/scarf and dancers shoes, probably the single most useful item in the game. you've got this and it's still worth playing without using dragoon, in fact I may play it again to see if I can beat it sans-transformation :D challenge accepted!
More power to ya :P My argument isn't that its going to be impossible for me. More that its going to be annoying for me. And saying "grinding will fix that" no, unfortunately grinding ruins RPGs for me. I'll just have to wait and play it on a real PSOne whenever I get another one. Though there's a chance that a new custom firmware update or popsloader for PSP could fix it as well. Either way, I'll just have to wait to finish it :] 'Cause right now the encounter rate is just on the cusp of turning me off. Grinding will definitely turn me off. And I don't want to wind up hating this game lol
Grinding isn't really a treat in LoD anyways... at least the level cap is forgivingly small.
I found the random encounter to boss exp to be extremely skewed. On my first playthrough I don't think I ever had a character gain a level on a non boss fight.
I definentally leveled up a few times without boss fights, but mostly I leveled up my combos, huge difference between doing 200% damage and doing 350%, so I'm not so much talking about the level but getting "volcano" up is important, see what I'm saying?
Indeed. I was abusing additions. And no, the encounter rate isn't terrible. But it was a tad high, and having to grind would just make it worse. And I've gained a few levels outside of boss battles, but there is definitely a -huge- difference. Right now I get about 30 xp per fight. The last boss battle I won got me 1500 xp. Crazy
yeah they really don't hide the fact that minor fights are insignificant... lolz
yeah, but that's the beginning of the game. I don't remember, but I assume it must change. I've played a few RPGs where leveling up was slow in the beginning.
Actually it's like that for the whole game. I think the exp gain is so little because they expect you to never run from random encounters, so you can train Additions without being overleveled afterward. At least, that's how I see it.
Though my comments may sound like it, I never found like the regular battles were a waste of time. As it is mentioned they are vital for developing abilities. I just found it interesting that I only ever leveled up during boss fights. If a character from my main party was dead at the end of a boss they were permanently one level behind :)
Hmm. I need to replay this game or something. That's a strange thing for an RPG, since bosses are plot-dependent, it makes your leveling up plot-dependent. Can never exceed a certain bar where you are in the plot. Sounds annoying! But I don't remember this very well.
Maybe because I focused more on the additions.
Yeah it feels kinda like FF8 in that regard. Your additions are more important than your levels. Since you don't power up much. Firing off a few perfect additions are more powerful than leveling up and expecting to do a harder one-hitter. It seems purposely paced in that regard, so you're always in a range of levels the developers wanted you to be at whatever point in the game. Its not a hindrance as far as I can tell. The boss fights I fought weren't hard so I assume the whole game is that way
honestly I think the first time I played this i skipped as many battles as possible, it makes doel a hard mo-fracky, if you can beat him your pretty much set for the rest of the game
I beat the game thanks to my 32 items. Most likely, the creators didn't intend this to be played on emulator.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
Har har point taken :P But "thanks" to the limit? Explain?
My sequel wish list.
1. Additions are nice, but let's have other skills i.e. Magic for outside Dragoon form.
2. Better voice acting plz.
3. This may sound childish, but I can't tand Ice and Water being grouped together. SEPERATE!
4. Lavitz.
lol For some reason I frequently think about basic elements and always have to categorize ice separate. It seems weird to me to have it grouped too. Sometimes its put with Wind as well, just to get water as a separate element. Nothing wrong with having them all separate. Fire comes from heat, its not really a by-product of something else. So its counter part should be separate too. Though I'm not particularly fond of earth and vegetation, or wind and lightning being grouped either. But now I'm straying drastically. (Hm... Dark, Light, Lightning, Wind, Earth, Fire, Ice, and Plant..? ......... HEART)Quote:
Originally Posted by Laddy
I just started disc 3 and have gone through without any dragoon transformations :D, I haven't done any grinding unless you count searching through everything to find items. It's worth it as I now have 2 LC's mwahaha one more and it will be done
My mom and I played this game together. I navigated, she played, and, 130 hours later we beat the game at level 47-ish. That was YEARS ago.
WTB sequel. ><