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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.

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.

Good but God of War is Great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game and should be purchased if you love Greco/Roman storylines. The price on Amazon is a rip off though. You can find the game on the gamequestdirect website for about $18.99.

The storyline is very generic and fraught with poor voice acting and misspelled subtitles. For $18.99 it's a steal, for $49.99 it's a pass.
Hope this helps.

Swany

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cool Game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Kinda short. I rented it and solved in 6 1/2 hours. Glad I didn't pay full price for it! ;)

Overall, it reminded me of Zelda the Wind Waker; except, in this game, you only play in the boss areas. There's not much puzzle solving, searching, or any extended side quests. It's a straight forward smash and run game. Not worth buying, but worth playing.

Pretty solid adventure game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To be honest, when I picked this up, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I'm not a huge fan of greek mythology, but it isn't like I think it's awful, either. Anyway, I loved the fact that nearly everything was interactive, that is to say, destructible. If it isn't nailed down, it's very likely you can destroy it.

This game isn't a one-trick-pony, though. The combat presents itself in three different styles that become available as you progress through the game.

The graphics are astounding, and the textures will simply take your breath away. All of the character models look good as well. Amongst the beautiful visuals lie many secrets and other unlockable abilities that aid you as you progress in the game (i.e. sliding, tackling, ect.)

The music definitely fits the atmosphere, and is some of the best compositions I've heard for a video game.

Where this game falls, however, lies in two places. The voice acting in this game is laugh-out-loud funny. I'd swear that they picked up the voice actors from a local McDonald's or something. The other pitfall is the cookie cutter story. Tell me if you've heard this, but it's a story where you save the princess from the bad, bad man! Quite original, huh?

That being said, I couldn't recommend this game more for action/adveture fans, but if you're looking for a deep storyline, look elsewhere.

Pretty easy but some great visual effects.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: May 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Visually, this is probably the best game on the PS2 and that alone makes it worthwhile. Like most other PS@ games it suffers from the fact that it is just too short and too easy. Dying is a feat is this game. Gameplay is not too dificult and gmaeplay is easy to master but stlll pretty fun if you get caught up in the fanatsy world. Another problem is that the viewpoint sometimes changes too quickly whic can be a little annoying. Like most games today it is pretty good but coould have been better.

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