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Visually Impressive Adventure!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rygar: The legendary adventure puts you on the island of "Argus" where you set out to find & rescue the princess "Harmonia". I don't wana give too much away, but you will be fighting a bunch of really cool enemies & bosses with one of the coolest and original weapons too come along in video games in recent years. The "Diskarmor" (i think i spelled it right?). Well you should check out the game.....trust me this diskarmor is one [awesome] weapon! The atmospehere in the game is of greek mythology, so you can count this game has educational (not really). My only problem with the game was that it wasn't long enough....other than that, I think it's worth buying!

THE LEGEND IS BACK

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game adeptly captures the feel of the original Rygar for the NES. If you were old enough to battle Lygar in his castle then, you NEED this game. If you are too young to remember it, saddle up to some outstanding adventures. Wonderful play mechanic and control, this is a magnificent game.

'' A REALLY COOL GREEK GAME '' !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF BAD THE BAD REVIEWS ABOUT THIS GAME! PLAY IT FOR YOURSELF ..I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED PLAYING THIS GAME , EVEN THOUGH IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET HIS MANEUVERING DOWN GOOD. ALL OF HIS DISKARMORS ARE COOL , AND YOU'LL SEE WHAT ONES WORK BEST AGAINST WHICH ENEMIES .AND THE PARTS WHEN YOU USE THE DISKARMOR TO REACH HARD PLACES BY SWINGING , IS REALLY NEAT !GRANTED THERE ARE NOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT VARITIES OF MONSTERS , BUT THE BOSSES MAKE UP FOR IT A LOT. PLUS YOU CAN GET COOL STUFF BY SMASHING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT TOO..IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF HE HAD A SWORD , MACE, WHIP, OR OTHER SORT OF WEAPON YOU COULD USE AS WELL.BUT IIT WAS FUN TO PLAY ALTOGETHER.SO GET IT TODAY , AND PICK UP AS WELL COOL GAMES LIKE:'' MARK OF KRI ''''BATMAN VENGEANCE AND ''RISE IF SIN TZU '' '' HULK '' ''TWO TOWERS '' AND '' BUFFY '' TO NAME A FEW ..HAVE FUN AND KEEP GAMING ALIVE !!

Comparing this game to God of War.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

God of War is an "Excellent" game, a perfect 10 out of 10. While Rygar is an "OK" game which I would score as 7

Four Good points of Rygar:

1) During gameplay you can switch between 3 different shields as your weapon. Each shield has its own unique combos. There is a reward system similar to God or War, where you will learn new more powerful attacks as you earn more points.

2) There are also magic attacks. The magic attacks cause the entire screen to change color, and a spirit launches an attack on your opponents. It looks very cool when the spirit makes the entire screen change color.

3) This is an exploring game. You can freely roam around each level.

4) It has nice orchestral music.

Two Bad points of Rygar:

1) There is no double jump. You can only do a basic jump which makes it difficult to leap off platforms.
2) There are very few enemies to fight.

When you play this game for the very first time, the beginning stage seems a bit boring. But as you reach new levels, you'll see very beautiful environments. So bear through the first level, because the visual scenery gets much better.

Rygar: The cool...game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is load of fun. It's got lots going for it like:
-The best graphics on PS2
-Being able to destroy beautiful Greek inspired enviroments
-The most original weapon since... the first Rygar.
Your being awarded by a real looking princess when Titans take her. You fall and then you kill a bunch of bugs while running through the most entertaining platformer I've ever played.
I haven't beaten this game yet, but thats because I got it yesterday. Also, when I was sliding down the stairs in this game, it showed realistic sand floating up in the air and falling. WOW! This game is so detailed and fun that I couldn't give it anything lower than 5 stars.

One of my favorites

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is definately among my favorite PS2 games. The game play is enjoyable, and provides the right amount of challenge (the difficulty level is adjustable). The graphics are quite good, the music is great. The game control is really easy, and I can not think of any problems I had with it. While you can't control the camera angle, it never caused a problem for me in this game.
It is almost nothing like the NES version of the game, and I would have liked to see more from that version brought over to this game. However with how much fun this one is I really can't complain. My only real complaint is that the game is a bit short, and there should have been a much greater diversity of enemies.
The storyline is nothing special, nor is the voice acting during the cut scenes good but that's what I was expecting from this sort of game anyhow. Rygar is a great action game with a strong fantasy element, goregous and interesting scenery (some of the most beautiful I've seen in any game), and very well done game play.

Stunning potential not used to its highest level

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Rygar the Legendary Adventure is a very fun game with beautiful graphics and a vast variety of attacks, but unfortunately, those are the only real positives. First of all, the game is just way too short. It can take under four hours to beat it. Because of that some of the adventure elements don't really fit in. You have to play the game four times in order to get all the mystic stones, which isn't really worth it considering that more than half of them are useless, and that it really isn't as fun to play the game four times as the designers hoped it would have been, despite the different difficulty levels in each replay. Among other problems with Rygar, one is that the story and voices are just awful. Of course not every game takes itself seriously when it comes to story, but the atrocities in this one are just too much. What's also lame is that from the middle of the game on most of the environments look more or less the same. You're always around some red or brown, hot mountain, lava field, or something else reddish or brownish. The final area was also way too short and pathetic, and aside from the bosses, there are only a few kinds of enemies, most which are smaller than you are.
Numerous things could have increased the value of this game. First, they just should have made it a lot longer, preferably at least within the 8-10 hour range keeping the difficulty around the game's "HARD" level. This would have allowed for a greater variety of environments and enemies, and it would have left room for all the mystic stones to be in. Many of the mystic stones also should have done cooler things than what they did. There actually is an interesting back story to the game if you read some of the texts you pick up, but the current story is executed just too poorly to accept even for a game you know won't take itself seriously. The presentation could have used vast improvement. In short, Rygar the Legendary Adventure is a disappointment because it had stunning potential that just didn't have its best brought out. Lack of ambition most likely held it back. The negatives outweigh the positives enough for me to only be able to recommend it as a rental. Hopefully the tentative sequel, if made, will be better.

A joke?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sometimes I wonder about video game reviews. This is definitely one of those times. Maybe it's just me, but this game was horrible. People say it was fun, it was cool, and it looked great. And it might have been all those things....but it wasn't enjoyable. In fact, it was hardly understandable. There was very little story to the actual game, and when it does rear it's ugly head, it's only strength is the graphics. The story is presented in such a way that every scene seems to be intentionally ambiguous, to the point where you begin to wonder if there's a large section of the game you may have missed where they actually explain the story rather than present more questions. No explanations are given for anything, short of 'there's a princess that needs saving and you're stuck with the job'. The voice acting is just horrible, and the game play isn't even all that fun.

Much like the popular Onimusha series, this game features customizable weapons, the Diskarmors, each with different magical abilities and elemental alignments. There's even an optional dungeon nearly identical to Onimusha's Dark Realm, but I'd discovered it by accident, and found no reason to actually go through it. I beat the game within four days with no difficulty, and even after beating it I still didn't understand what was going on.

If you're that drawn in to playing the game, look it up on Youtube or borrow it from a friend if you can first. Don't be fooled by reviews...this game is hardly worth the $8 I paid for it.

save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this game is horrible. even the cheesiest voice acting from resident evil one was at least amusing. this makes me want to punch someone in the face.
i feel like i was robed, and am glad that i bought it used. i really liked the old one, but this new one has firmly peed on its grave.

Average game, can not compete with recent titles.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A fun game, based on a number of Greek and Roman mythologies, however, it shows it age from the start. The gameplay is too slow, the developers needed to add a run feature of some sort. I found myself jumping or sliding to get from A to B. The story was near impossible to follow along with if you just played the game and watched the cut scenes. At times I had no idea why I was doing what I was doing! Having a decent knowledge of the Greek and Roman myths, I found the many liberties the designers took at changing the stories laughable and confusing! If you went into every scroll you picked up and read them, it helped, but that's just lazy game design. The boss battles, while at times difficult, always could be figured out after a few attempts. All boss encounters were done on a pattern, and once you realized the pattern it was just a matter of grinding out the victory. There is a 50 level dungeon battle that is optional to the completion of the game, and while fun, it is not for the average gamer. The designers throw enemies at you on each level, with the random treasure thrown in on certain levels. In all, Rygar is an average game, worth spending a few hours on to finish, but I would recommend buying it used, it's not worth a full retail price. If you are looking for a great mythology action game, go with God of War.

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