Legend of Dragoon on PSN

[Depression Moon]

Man I always wanted this game after trying a demo of it so many years ago. Now I can finally play it on a PS without shelling out a ton of cash.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

I know nothing about this game, tell me about it and why i should buy it.

It's an admittedly mediocre RPG, honestly. What they did that was amazing for the time was make the battles something you actually had to pay attention to, rather than mash X for half an hour because you set up your party beforehand. It had an interesting timing based physical attack that was the key component to combat. I could try to explain it but... Legend of the Dragoon-All Master Additions - YouTube So yeah. You time button presses when the spinning square overlaps the stationary square. If you make the hit, you gain SP and the combo continues. Occasionally you'll get a red square, which is the enemy counter attacking, and you have to press a different button to block and continue. Your (unless I'm mistaken, it's been a while) powers a transformation later on which turns you into a badass for a certain number of turns depending on how much you charge up your SP. Magic isn't as important as in most RPG's, and healing items are handled a bit differently as well. Normally you get a 200 hp potion, a 500 hp potion, a 1000 hp potion, etc etc. LoD gives you a 50% max heal individual potion, a 100% max heal individual potion, and 50% and 100% party healing potions. It's kinda nice because you don't end up stockpiling potions that become useless 2 or 3 levels later.

The battle system will probably make or break it for you. While I loved it because it actually kept your attention on the battle and I was suffering from "mindlessly hammer attack" syndrome I've heard several people claim that they get really tired of playing PaRappa the Rapper every time they get in a (frequent) random battle. Aside from that though, the game was beautiful for it's time, offers several really cool environments, has a pretty awesome backstory (even if it hammers you with it repetitively) and has visually aged a lot better than most games of the period. It's one of those games that does so many things well, but what it does wrong it does REALLY wrong. The worst attempts at voice acting I have ever heard, coupled with some of the best looking PMV's of the time. A genuinely cool way to make battle a little more hands on, coupled with transformations that essentially only come in handy when you need a serious defense boost to survive a bosses attacks. A pretty good plot twist that you'll have figured out HOURS before they explicitly say it, making you want to bludgeon the main characters every time they completely lose the plot.

TL;DR It's the Vanilla Coke to Final Fantasy's Coke Classic. Some people are going to love the tweaks and differences, others are going to gag and hate it forever because it tastes weird.

[Laddy]

It's a bad game I absolutely love.

EDIT: Not to mention it has some of the most incredibly embarassing examples of trying to have cool looking and sounding attack and spell names.

[Wolf Kanno]

The concept was cool, and I did like the battle system. The cast... is okay and the plot is actually pretty forgettable and mostly predictable.It doesn't help the game gives you one of the most broken powers just before the Final Boss, not to mention the final dungeon itself is completely bizarre and kind of feels like a "oh god, we ran out of money but still need to tie up all these loose ends in the plot, so let's just have it all happen in the final dungeon even if it feels out of place". Its still a fun game, my main party was Dart, Rose, and Albert. The music is actually pretty good as well.

[Tranquil]

Amazing game, deserves the title of PSOne Classic.

[Alpha2099]

Amazing game, deserves the title of PSOne Classic.

Agreed. I think it might be my most favorite video game ever.