The Legend of Dragoon | Pre-Rendered Perfection (Retrospective)
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Few JRPGs from back in the 90's seem to resonate with as many fans as The Legend of Dragoon does these days. Especially ones that aren't Final Fantasy. In this week's video we take a look back at this PlayStation classic and discuss what it is about this game that makes it so damn memorable. Just how well does it hold up all these years later? 21 years after its North American release to be exact. Find out in our retrospective over 'The Legend of Dragoon'
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I'm a definite LoD fanboy. The art, music, combat, all of it was breathtaking for me.
this game did something for me pretty much no other game did after i played it or during i started drawing trying to draw the LoD characters and not just that but all the scenery. now i never got great but i can to this day draw an ok Dart and my fav character Kongal. obviouslly never got in the same hemisphere as the maps. no other game has literally made me go draw and try to pick up an art medium other then this.
Still my favorite story
I just LOVE this game! One of the first game I ever got into when I was a kid, and even now every few years I gotta have a playthrough. The story is compelling, and the universe is really beautiful, even with ps1 graphics. Definitely my favorite game of all time
When I was younger my little brother would sit and watch me play Final Fantasy 7; we both knew that game inside and out from this stereotypical brotherly exchange of, "I play and you watch." He was never into actually playing JRPGs. Whenever our parent's got us Legend of Dragoon, due to my young mind's fascination of dragons, it was actually my little brother who first picked up and played it and boy did he LOVE it. To this day, over 20 years later, it's still the only JRPG title he's ever played and it resonates with him very much. Honestly, I'd bet dime to dollar, if they did an HD Remake of sorts, he'd sit down and play it through and through again. :)
It really was, and still is, an awesome game.
Happy for you sounds nice
You know, you can switch off the long animation of dragoon form to a short one and have saved yourself some frustration?
My favourite RPG for 20 years now. I get why some people don't like additions, but they really cemented a love in me for turn based combat with real time elements.
Alberts additions used to throw me off due to their speed, but nobodies were harder for me to grasp than Merus. The intervals between her hits vary so wildly I could hardly ever get the rhythm right.
I still youtube the games main theme "If you still believe" every now and then. This game will always have a special place in my heart.
I can see why it’s your favorite, there’s so much to love about it. I’m sure you also played it during a pretty memorable part of your life which makes it all the better. Oddly enough, Meru’s additions were pretty easy for me. It was mainly Albert’s and even some of Dart’s that would kick my ass lol. I always find it interesting how personal experiences vary so much with what characters and additions people tend to have the most trouble with.
Replaying it recently definitely helped me remember how amazing the OST is, I don’t think I gave it enough credit back in the day. There’s numerous tracks I can see myself coming back to play for background music when working and whatnot
I do agree. Turn based + real time elements = my sweet spot. A little stressful, but still relaxed enough to enjoy the decision making and the combat animations. Shadow Hearts series had it. Lost Odyssey, too. FF ATB games. What else do we have ?
Recently Legrand Legacy and in other way, in a different style with card deck, Baten Kaitos
The different bonuses you got from using different additions also added a unique tactical element to it as well. For some reason I struggled most with Haschels additions, as well as Alberts.
Man the PS1 really was an achievement of peak rpgs where tech and modern innovations never restricted our sence of scope and scale like games today. When you played a game on the PS1 and experienced the story, it was within a large space, with large consequences and ramifications that circumvented the entire globe. Games now a days are like peacemeal in comparison to the epics you see on PS1. I much prefer games of these era's where they represented abstractions in world design and zones over seamless traversal. Abstractions really help to sell the illusion of size in a games world.
it doesnt help that games have all been exactly the same thing since the 360 and ps3
@@OrphanCrippler1 Lost Oddysey was paticular interesting because it was trying to break new grounds well still retaining that sort of conventional rpg format with over worlds and everything, trying to utlize advanced tech at the time, but alas to bad jrpgs went backwards after that. If you look at Lost oddysey though you can see how it was trying to innovate the genre and keep the scope and over worlds alive. in fact I would go as far as to say that game has the best graphical over world in the medium other then FF XV when it introduced the flying car.
Yeah its to bad games are trying to be more like film and movies now. But you know on the bright side of things, video games are very diverse and so there are distinct styles and approach to design that creators still adhere to. I mean hell just in the last several years we got alot of pixel reboot projects similar to the 16 bit era like Octapath traverler and alot of games seem to be following that design principle and we got games like Dragon Quest XI, so its not ALL BAD!! But i do fear for the future of gaming.
@@Artimes. I LOVED Lost Oddysey. It was such a great game
Games of today are just generic products with fancy graphics (and DLCs/microtransactions). Back then games were legit art pieces (most of them, at least)
This is one of the games I really want a remake so badly!
We are waiting as well!
27329 who have signed a petition for one would agree with you
@@d.sack2727 didn't they respond with "we can't say anything yet, but we know you're gonna love what we're working on"?
I don't need a remake just need it to be available for PS4 it's the game I originally overlooked but due to good word of mouth I now really want to get my hands on
Crono Cross or LoD remake in 2022!
Rose might be the JRPG character with the heaviest burden I've seen...
she had to kill new-born children for 108 years to avoid the destruction of the world.
I shipped her a lot with Dart but she ended up with his father in the end... and both died.
This is one of the few games, whereby the ending references events from the very start of the game, in a very satisfying way.
I was so young when I played this i got stuck on the 3rd disc and my mom had to help me get past the boss.
She read the instruction manual ( god I miss those ) and pointed out all the mechanics I wasn't using .
Finally beating that boss was such a binding moment for 9 yr old me and her .
10/10 please remake
thats a cool ass mom man
did you somehow make it that far without additions or something?
I bet you were stuck at the dragon block staff.....
Great Retrospective , keep up the good work . This game is what got me into JRPGs . Though I will say I agree it needs some quality life improvements , but that soundtrack was and still is amazing.
Thanks! What a great first game to get you into the genre. Legend of Legaia and Super Mario RPG were my first true JRPGs that got me into it. Maybe one of these days we’ll get a remaster in the same vein as the PS1 Final Fantasy games with some QoL improvements, that would be quite the experience
i see Legend of Dragoon and i click. One of my favorites of all time. And i love people making videos about it
LOD is still to this day one of my favorite JRPG's. The world building of Endness is so rich and engaging. It's practically begging for a sequel or prequel because there's so much you could do to continue the story. More than any other IP I hope legend of Dragoon gets the much deserved sequel, prequel, remake whatever it so greatly deserves. Also the music is 10/10.
You probably never played it.
I picked this up randomly back in the 90s, I saw no promotions or advertisements. When I picked it up and could not put it down except for bathroom breaks and food. I played 30 hours nonstop until it was over. There wasn't many good voice acting games yet and found the voices unique and charming, though I did notice sometimes it was jarring bad. The game was filled with emotion and the music moved me. The world building was mysterious and exciting.
At the time there were few battle systems that were unique; Stat Ocean, Grandia, Legend of Legacy, and LoD stood out among them. I loves additions because I could see myself get better at them and it felt so rewarding.
At the time overworld maps were beginning to become stale, i was fantasizing about things that are similar to open world style and when I played LoD, I loved it's instancwd fields.
One of my favorite RPGs of all time.
I still get chills every now and then when I remember the moment Dart became a Dragoon when Hokes was being under siege, man that was one of the defining moments of the game..
When lavitz bit it the only thing i can compare it too was Dom dying in gears3
Yes . Sometimes I had that as a save and just did that battle over
I love The Legend of Dragoon to no end but certainly have a lot of issues with it nonetheless. Most of the voice acting range from decent to god-awful (the best being to my surprise, actor *Tony Todd* best known for playing the villain "Candyman" and being in the "Final Destination" movies), the English translation from the original Japanese is mediocre to utter shit, quite a few spelling errors and odd wording throughout the game, and a LOT of plot holes, inconsistencies, and other story points that is either not elaborated upon or brought up if you really think about it. If Sony ever does something again with the game to say, hop on the Final Fantasy VII Remake bandwagon, I hope it's a Remake and/or a Prequel set before & during the Dragon Campaign. The Legend of Dragoon is truly ripe with potential to be explored more. Over 11,000 years worth throughout the world of Endiness and perhaps beyond if done well. I love all the characters but like you say, better writing and more in-depth exploration would be fantastic.
Zieg, Rose, Shirley, Damia, and the other former Dragoons are there to work with and be great for fans to learn more about them. Hell, who's to say there were not Dragoons before some of them that may have perished during the Dragon Campaign? Sure, we saw how Rose got her Dragoon Spirit by her and Zieg slaying the original Dark Dragon, but what about the latter's case? Maybe Zieg Feld hand a mentor, close friend, or even sibling that originally had the Spirit of the Red-Eyed Dragon and Zieg inherited it from him/her? Kanzas only joined the Dragoons so he'd have an excuse to kill, so maybe he murdered the original wielder of the Violet Dragon and took it for himself? Like, the Violet Dragon Spirit preferring the ruthlessness or something of the sort in others (which would explain why it also attached to Emperor Doel)? Lastly, the Dragoon Spirits of the Blue Sea, Violet, Golden, and Jade Dragons remain unaccounted for those 11,000 years after the Dragon Campaign ended and it's never explain how they got to their current locations/wielders during the main story.
The closest we get is that it's implied Kongol's older brother *Indora* may have wielded the Golden Dragoon Spirit. As on the Moon That Never Sets/body of the God of Destruction (a place that blends, warps, and mimics memories, reality, time, and other crazy things) Indora will give it to Kongol if the player didn't buy it from the merchant in Lohan. For what purpose did Indora have it? Did the Golden Dragon recognize and activate for him? What even happened to Kongol's brother during his childhood? How did it get from Kadessa (where the final battle of the Dragon Campaign took place and where its original wielder *Belzac* died) end up in the Home of the Gigantos, then later to Lohan in that merchant's hands? In the latter's case, the only thing that makes sense is that the thieves that Doel was chasing out of the Gigantos' lands stole it (presumably they were also killing the giants and after Indora died to them or via some other means) and sold it off to the highest bidder in any town they could.
Like you say, this game is utterly beautiful to look at and very atmospheric, full of life and personality. And good lord, I love the games awesome music. But I think what I like most with the game's overarching story is the build-up and payoff with the game's lore. They elaborate so much on the whole myth about the Moon Child, the Moon That Never Sets, the Black Monster (though as a little kid, I didn't realize how painfully obvious it was implied to be...), so on but at the end of *Disc 3* however, the plot twist hits you like a ton of damn bricks when the truth is finally revealed and everything you thought you knew is flipped right on it's head; surprising both the characters AND the player. 🥰🥰
Okay so I have some points:
1. More an opinion: the length of the battles is why the music and the addition's are so memorable. Almost 20 years after playing and beating the game, I remember all the character names, almost all the skills, and music.
2. Point of info: Dragoon form can be shortened if you dont' wanna see the animation, you review makes it sound like the transformation is mandatory
3. Point of info: There's an item you can get so that you don't have to input the squares for the additions, so I think that should solve the issue for people who have difficulty with input sequences
If it takes you 5 minutes to get through a random encounter in Legend of Dragoon then I have one thing to say, get good because you're not
Just found your page. I really hope you keep doing these. There's so few JRPG retrospective video essays. While Western RPG's (which i also enjoy) get so many.
That’s the plan. I agree and that’s why I wanted to start doing them in the first place, RUclips needs more JRPG content in general. We have one coming out on Tales of Symphonia next, then before the years over hope to cover Suikoden, Breath of Fire IV and Phantasy Star IV as well
The additions system is super good, it's more like a rhythm game, you only need to remember the beat, just like fighting games (especially older Tekken and the infamous 10-hit combo). Once you do so, you can even do it by not even looking at the screen past the first hit. I remember my main party's addition rhythm like 15+ years after I last played, which is saying something.
Thank you for this video. The biggest reason why it's my favorite game of all time is probably due to it being my first JRPG game but looking back to it recently, it's really the lore that keeps haunting me about it. The lore is just so epic especially with how they pace it out in the game where u start in this civil war region and spans to be a story that started 11 thousand years ago or some shit. What I would do to have it be revived and explored more. It sorta combines western rpg aesthetics wtih jrpgs
This was my first RPG in 2001, still mt favorite game of all time.
I'm a simple man. I see a Legend of Dragoon video, I watch it. Always go back and give it a replay every year or two. Here's to eternally waiting for a remake/sequel!
I'm still surprised by how much people love this game now. I was a teen when it was released and loved it but at the time many just saw it as a FF7 rip-off. People are really stupid sometimes lol
i mean yeah obviously nothing like FF7 but it was also before dragons was a super used all over the place mythical creature and the west has always loved dragons. not to mention the game just slaps hard as fuck.
@@dillonoickle5841 I honestly think looking back now that since ff7 was the first huge mainstream success in the US that when Legend of dragoon came out they just saw the "jrpg" style and thought it was a rip-off. But what the intelligent people knew is that jrpgs like these had existed for decades in Japan.
@@AngelFlores-bq4fd yeah newer to the west people also prob just saw blond spikey hair sword must be a clone.
Legend of Dragoon was my Final Fantasy VII. Even today, I laugh at people pretending that the original ff7 was perfect while I do the exact same thing with LOD
"attack items are really strong in this game" -taps X to 300% and does 7 damage.
If you practice enough, you get to the point where the longer additions aren't a "risk" at all. They rewarded practice. As a gigantic JRPG and Fighting game fan, this was one of the main components of LoD that made me love it instantly. The difference in cadence between additions is just like the difference in cadence for each different combo in fighters. And ofc everything else, the complete package. Even has the (***decades old spoiler ⚠️ warning***) OP villain story battle you have to lose, then he joins you.
Need a remake and a prequel. Need a dragoon campaign game. From start to finish. Rose as leader with darts dad. There was also mermaids (not just winglies) but for some reason we never got any explanation about them. As previous water dragoon was a mermaid and she was the youngest ever dragon as she was 15. Her reasons were not known either. Cannot remember if it's just her but she either did go or died before the final fight with melbu frahma
This is a game need to go back and finish. Got up around 50 hours on disc 3 and just stopped playing. It was over 15 years ago and I lost that save file. The one thing I didn’t really enjoy was the button timing during battles because it became tedious. One of these days I’ll finish it.
Yep it’s a long one for sure. I think the button timing is fun for awhile but it does make the pacing of the game drag a bit after some time. The 4th disc has some of the coolest looking locations in the game so it’s worth going back to finish sometime
Yeah I was the opposite, I didint finish ff7 until years later, mainly because I got lost in the middle of the game. But I was able to finish legend of dragoon the game play the lore really brought out my imagination big time as a kid. It is a legend in my book and can't believe there was never any other games for it.
still all these years...the best game ive ever played. the only game i cried to...the only game i played way to many times
I don't remember the story so much as I do the environments. They were beautiful. Same with shadow madness.
Man you rule! Fantastic job as always, carry on
Thanks dude! We’ll keep the content coming 👌
You k ow you love Legend of Dragoon when you can hear all their grunts and "hyas" and the names of each addition before they finish
DAMN, 2000 was 22 years ago. my soul hurts just thinking about it.
Plllllleeeeeeaaaaasssse talk Vanguard Bandits. Such a good and underrated game, nothing out there one it.
Legend of Dragoon will always be my number one go to video game though I still haven't played ff7-ff9 so there is that, and even if I enjoy most old jrpgs I'll just never connect with them like LoD I remember coming home from school and not playing goodness no watching my mother play it I was like her own personal guide book I don’t understand looking back but I could remember every little detail back then. I basically play Legend of Dragoon on a yearly basis sometimes more than that.
I still have my copy. I beat it twice. I love it! Very different from Final Fantasy, but I would love a remake of this game.
One of the classics I have never played. Hopefully it'll get a remaster someday for ease of acces.
One of the first rpgs I ever played. Oh the memories. The music always appealed to me, one of my favorite next to FFX, and in some ways similar. Can’t wait until the remake!
You do know that they have an entire option that lets you shorten the transformation time, right? After the first time you watch the transformation, it just flashes you with a light and you're a dragoon. The only time you would watch a transformation after that is when you do a special, which is changing all three of your dragoons at once.
Other then that one thing you said that stuck out to me, great vid.
Yeah, you're right I should have mentioned that. It does shorten the transformations which is nice. I could be mistaken but there's no way to shorten the dragoon magic attacks though right? That's mainly what I was complaining about so I should have clarified that more. Transformations aren't that bad since they only need to be triggered sporadically but once you're in dragoon form and if you're using magic every turn, all those long animations really start adding up. And thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed it
@@GamingBroductions yeah, the D Magic attacks are the main things that draw the fights out, especially when you get to the D lvl 5 attacks....and the last boss no spoilers, but make sure you have some food available, cause those attacks are mini movies.
I love this game I still have the original and the greatest hits. Right up there on my top RPG list!
Bluepoint studios is slacking on this remake
Yeah that rumor and speculation got my hopes up. Still gonna keep my fingers crossed though
My first real rpg...game was my childhood.
What a great way to get introduced to the genre. It wasn't the first rpg for me but probably one of the earlier ones I played
Great video! Glad u share my love for the backrounds and the scenery lol that shit still looks incredible especially the water and the music oohhhh boy. The dragoon transformations and magic is slow to me these days too but as a kid playing with my brothers and cousins all together it was pure hype and made us feel like we were watching an anime fight lol.
Thanks! Yeah I feel you there, the dragoon magic and transformations hyped me up as a kid too but it just starts dragging as an adult after you've already seen them. I would have the same gripe about the summons from the playstation FF games, they all need a skip option lol
Love LoD but my comments is more about your video. This is a very well made video especially for the length. You definitely got a sub from me.
Thank you for your kind words and we really appreciate your support!
You got it.😁 Greatest game up there period.
Appropriately lvls you with no grind, oh oh wait what is this final boss, ME having to start from disc one to grind & collect better equips, 20 years later I still love the game. Wait what is this thing called guides, also ME in store looking up cheats.
My best line up was Dart,Rose and Hascel,Rose and Hascel was little hard addition but the Damage was good.
I beat this game back to back. The first time i beat it in 100 hours. The second was 101. Rose was my fav but her add were pretty tough but i maxed everbody adds out hreat game newds a remake
Never knew about legendary dragoon back when I was a kid but I found it in Walmart's discount bin and I snapped it up and unfortunately I was never able to finish it because I think I accidentally scratched the discs when I was a kid I still love the game I bought it on the PS Vita on the PlayStation store
I still remember slapping an Angel Scarf on Kongol and watching him shrug off the superboss's attacks.
Favorite game of all time.
I first got LoD for Christmas the year it came out, however I did not see a SINGLE ad for it or demo at Walmart until AFTER I already owned it. I remember unwrapping it and not being super excited because i had NO idea what it was 😅 but then I played it and my 12ish year old mind was BLOWN
I'm 33 now
I am a lot like you in my history with this game; I played it a lot as a kid, but didn't finish it, made it to Disc 4 and replayed several times but never got further than that. Absolutely awesome game tho
I still have this game. THANK GOD I DIDNT SELL IT BACK IN THE DAY.
Love your retrospective series!
I played this one when I was a kid but didn't get to finish it around 2012. Combat, music, and the pre-rendered backgrounds make this game memorable for me. Story.. not so much. I think I had problems with the game feeling like it crammed so much story and lore (including each individual party member's iirc) starting mid/end of disc 3.
As for problematic additions, I always had problems with Dart's Moon Strike and Rose's Demon Dance (I don't know why you get counters on those 2 quick strikes.. like cmon man). Everything else I was pretty okay with.
I have the same exact relation with the game as you :(. I even had a friend tell me, that game is so amazing, i even cried at the end, wich made me wanna finish it so much more.. Here we are 20 ish years later... I gave it another go a couple months ago and didnt get too far until I switched to my 20th playthrough of Suikoden 1 and now that I'm finished, Street Fighter 2010 :/. Thats on android, bedroom game is Suikoden 5, wich is my second playthrough. First time I played was ironically around 2010 and rushed it since I borrowed from a friend and my daughter was a toddler so couldn't rly enjoy a console game ( loved ds back then 😅 ). I'm clearly gonna enjoy this time around.
Nah, no way IX is better than LoD. You might like some of the mechanics and quality of life stuff. But people who play LoD and beat it. That becomes a part of their soul. There’s a reason why it lingers with so many people despite lacking future support. FFIX never had the same impact. Is LoD better than the best ff? Probably not. But it’s better than most of them, and the impact it creates on people and leaves I think is more profound. I rather one great cultural marquee game then a technically brilliant but generally forgettable one
the Japanese isn't bad by any means, but they aren't the best either.
another thing you might not know is there is a pocket station mini game (I didn't know until I got the digital release off PSN and the pocket station "app" on my Vita)
one more funny thing is my name is Lloyd and my sister is Rose
My team is usually Dart ofc and Rose and either Meru or Albert. I had the hardest time master Albert's additions. I eventually 99/80'ed every addition with Rose having someone of my favorites. Merus additions are alot of fun but can be tricky. Kangol feels almost like an afterthought but the bow users feel almost entirely forgotten about.
The music is top shelf for sure.
Also, f@ck the Divine Dragon fight.
i replayed this in 2021... the story did not hold up. its way worse than i remembered. the amount of times all the characters gathered in a small room, acted like things were hopeless taking turns ONE AFTER ANOTHER saying negative things only to in seconds QUEUE THE UPBEAT MUSIC start for some reason getting a burst of positivity- taking turns saying positive things one after another is astounding. who wrote this dialog. i believe there was even a part that ended with *we will do what we can do* which is the laziest writing i have ever seen. leveling additions can get boring and tedious, fights feel like a chore and largely unsatisfying, transformations got a bit useless and the characters were so so uninteresting. at the end of the game i felt like i still didnt know anything about the characters i beat the game with at all. compared to another game i played again legend of legaia, which held up extremely well, i feel like this one was better off NOT replaying so it would have remained a pleasant memory.
I remember when I got legend of dragoon I had been at my cousins house the year before and mentioned to mom this awesome game I played called ff7, now mind you I played these all around the early 2000's cuz up until 2000 I had a snes not a ps1 I think, memory a bit fuzzy but bear with me, my mother not knowing crash bsndicoot from resident evil found ff8 and 7, unsure of which one to get me, she bought both and then saw what she read as Legend of Dragon at the time knowing I loved drsgons and dinosaurs she got it too, probably the best birthday ever, (I can't remember if Christmas pr birthday lol I'm getting old so my mind is going lmao)
Honestly my favorite JRPG of all time, yes it has flaws but all games in the 90s-early 2000s did. I think a remake is justified. It just needs some quality of life improvements and this game would be a masterpiece even by todays standard.
This need a remake/remaster/reboot
"There is no set rhythm for additions" so they suck. "The worst of all of them is Madness Hero" which has completely uniform timing between inputs (bar the very first)... Come on man, your argument just lost all credibility.
Remake, Movie, Anime, hell I'll take a fucking prequel
Man an anime would actually be really dope. There's a lot of potential with a prequel given the dragon campaign and all that, just give us something damnit
If only they announce a remake.
i had $20 and was at a bin of green labels at Wal*Mart. it was either the sequel to Chrono Cross, or this game that wasn't from Square but had cool looking armor.. i took the gamble.
You talked about the cadence of the button presses tot he additions. Actually, each addition has its own rhythm to it. Yes, they all differ. But each one is like a dance that you can preform, with each encounter.
I really enjoyed it. The tougher ones forced me, even as a teen, to practice them and make them a part of my arsenal. Though I did beat the game, I wished I could have gotten all of the Dragons. I did get each Dragoon, but not the final dragons for each character.
Maybe some day, I can revisit it. But great breakdown on this game. Thank you.
a true all time classic played the game more then 20 times to 100% and could do it many times more
I loved this game growing up, ALMOST beat it. Had the full guide PRINTED out and man was it a big book all together lmao
Dang, this one passed me by. Definitely need to correct that!
in my first playthrough, I might be a bit ambitious but I always usually kill random encounters in one turn. the final boss was underwhelming.
There was a pocket-station minigame add-on that gave you a 64-item limit. There's a fan patch to do so for US version too. I tried it and it's actually awesome.
I remembered spamming VOLCANO!!! skill over and over lol Dart, Rose, and Loyd are pretty memorable.
lol this is so weird u just take footage and some lines from the script of the Golden Bolt's review for legend of dragoon. im not unsubbing or whatever but its still weird
I got into jrpgs by my uncle,first one was final fantasy 7,id play at his house.then parasite eve,ff8 and then this.didnt get past disc one though.loved this era
Woah, I stayed up all night to solve one of the puzzle in the island with mine carts. Too bad my copy was bad the disc 4 couldn't play.
Story-wise sequel doesn't make much sense. A prequel about Dragon Campaign on the other hand...
I really dont hate pre rendered graphics....but i find 2d sprite work so much better
Compared to ff7's music, there isn't alot of variety. That is my only gripe with the game though, but I love it.
Still my #1 all time game and the story is my favorite aspect with how in depth it went with the ancient dragon campaign and all the current lore and how it all ties in.
Also for the dragoon transformation you can set it to short morph in the menu they just light up with their respective color and it take 5 seconds
Legend of Dragoon was a good gem on the PSX. I would be amazed if Square Enix got the rights to this game and remade it for modern consoles.
Sony shouldve explore Endiness more, many games of any genre can be set in there especially the dragon campaign and black monster legend...
Loved this game, but had the same issue. Only ever made it to the second or third disc. May need to get an emulator and take another shot, also want to retry dragon seeds, another old PS1 game that would make a great video if you have not covered it.
3 words: Dragon Block Staff. Hardest boss in the game when I was younger and i hated it LOL
Not a mystery. The Japanese version was much harder the game was fixed for western audiences.
Feel like if this came out at same time , this would’ve destroyed ff7. I think the failure was that it came out at similar time to ps2 . It was very ahead of its time but was just badly timed
A friend let me borrow this game as a kid but I got stuck fairly early on. I wish I stuck with it cause it looks like I missed out on something really great!
A lot of people had issues with the combos, why didn't they just use the Ultimate War God accessory?
You earned a subscriber. Probably an unpopular opinion, addition is the reason why I mostly use Shana/Miranda. She doesn't have an addition but she is too OP. Just use magic items with her and the battle is over quickly. Plus, you get to manage your inventory in that way. Plus, her White Silver Dragon is incredibly strong. Like broken strong.
Thanks for subscribing first of all! Your opinion may be unpopular but gameplay wise it is the most efficient. Until I started watching speedruns of this game where everyone just spams Shana/Miranda magic, I didn't realize how OP she could be. Funnily enough, her lack of additions is what always made me never wanna use her as a kid and on this most recent playthrough, but if I were to play through the game again, that same thing would probably be the reason why I would use her lol.
Sony obv doesn't gaf about it.
I'd love to see a full remake on Xbox Exclusive XD
Honestly, the game was very boring for me, and with a very generic soundtrack.
BURNING RUSH!
HARPOON!
WHIP SMACK!
ahhh takes me back
I was a child when I beat this. If no one can get over how “hard” it Is then I’m sorry. One of the best games ever made!
Was the ff9 footage in this video some kind of HD version or it just looked that good back in the day? 🧐
Legend of Mana has the most beautiful backgrounds on the PS1.
LoD just rereleased on PS4 and PS5 through PS Plus. With trophy support!
Best RPG EVER #1 in my top 10 I need a remake asap somebody please PLEASE
The menu screen music is sublime. The story is really interesting, but I agree that the way its told is kinda dry
Love this ❤