Dark Cloud??

[The Space Pope]

I played Dark Cloud when it first came out. I thought it was kinda dumb at first (that stupid cat SHUT UP) but it eventually grew on me. I just hated the fact that I had to switch characters everytime I ran into something that blocked my path. I used the main guy and Osmond, I couldn't be bothered to build up the weapons for everyone.

Dark Cloud 2 was alot of fun while I had it, but I only got maybe halfway through and got rid of it for some reason that I no longer recall.

protip: DC1 is like 5USD used and DC2 around 12-15

[Laddy]

Both underatted games. Hinterland reminds me of it, it's part Action-RPG, part Simcity, and both elements go well enough together to not feel too gimmicky. The Dark Cloud series was great, but the city-building felt like it was missing something, still great, though.

Dark Cloud 2/Chronicle was best, though. A rich world and suprisingly poignant story, that wowes you with its immersive and whimsical atmosphere rather than over-the-top high-end dull gray post-apocalyptic landscape. Oh, and the sheer amount of minigames are amazing. They have fishing, folf, fish racing, photography, city-building, racing, hide-and-seek, ridepod customization, monster form creating, inventing, and fish BREEDING, too.

Few games have made me clock in so many hours into it, but Dark Cloud 2 did. It is second only to Baldur's Gate II in sheer hours I've invested doing random crap. High suggest these games.

[Dreddz]

How has Dreddz not seen this? IIRC he loves these games.

Nothing much to say that already hasn't been said really. I must have spent over 100 hours on Dark Chronicle and I reckon only 50 of those hours were me doing anything productive. The rest of the time I was excessively creating the towns to my satisfaction even though it wasn't necessary.

Level-5 really need to hurry up with Dark Cloud 3. There is really nothing else like these games.

[Momiji]

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Is there a Dark Cloud 3 in the works, or is it just wishful thinking?

[The Space Pope]

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Is there a Dark Cloud 3 in the works, or is it just wishful thinking?

There were rumors that it was going to be released in Japan around March 2009 and that production was "confirmed" but I haven't heard anything on it since last year. Did a quick google and apparently nobody else has either.

So a sequel is somewhat likely, just...not anytime soon I'm guessing.

[Dreddz]

Some Italian Playstation Mag apparantly hinted at the possibility of a third title in the series. And similer to every other rumour taken from a foreign mag, people took it as though it was 100% confirmed. Heck, I think even I did for a little while.

At the moment its pretty much confirmed that Level-5 are working on a White Knight Chronicles sequel. So its very unlikely we'll hear anything about Dark Cloud 3 until 2011. Although they could easily make the title for a handheld like the DS or something. I could see the town building working pretty well using the DS stylus.

[Ryth]

The first Dark Cloud was okay, but the second one was just magical.

[Momiji]

Although they could easily make the title for a handheld like the DS or something. I could see the town building working pretty well using the DS stylus.

I like that idea! I'd buy it.

[Shiny]

My dad decided to get me Dark Cloud one day. I had never heard of it before then, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. I hated going through the dungeon and the extremely long introduction FMV in the beginning. I ended up selling the game to EB Games. Not a big fan.

Both underatted games.

Not so much, considering the first one had a Greatest Hits label when I got it.

[BG-57]

Dark Cloud 2 was great, I loved the characters, the story, the world design. The only imbalance I found was I tended to rely mainly on the robot when dungeon crawling, especially the second playthrough where I could import some end game pictures and creature a devastating robot early on. The monster transformations never worked as well for me.

The time traveling aspects were done well, and I liked being able to see the future city spring up in response to your sim city tinkering. Best ally is Pau by far. Gotta love those moon bunnies!