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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of the original Rygar game, I was really looking forward to this version. The original version had, for the time, great graphics, music, plot, and overall gameplay.

The only thing that's great about this updated version of the game is the graphics.

Unfortunately, there's a lot about it that's not only less than great, but horrid:

- Movement/action/animation is jerky at best; I find it almost feels like the original 8-bit Rygar was superimposed over the beautiful 32-bit graphics.

- User interface is absolutely horrible. I found that attacks were difficult to control (at best) and I often had no idea where I was aiming. There is no "camera control" available, and it's quite easy to navigate Rygar off the screen entirely. Also, game play forces the user to use the analog control, whereas I prefer the cross-bar control; strangely, the options screen only responds to the cross-bar and not the analog. It's obvious that Tecmo spent little time doing usability testing on this game.

- Enemies and fighting sequences are repetative and dull. Yawn.

All in all, pass. Maybe rent it for a night just to check it out... But if you want an entertaining platform game that you can play again and again, save your money.

Neat weapon, uninspired gameplay.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just rented this game (and trust me, that's all you'll want to do), and found it to be a bore fest.

There are some cool ideas such as being able to destroy just about all the environments you come accross, yet you seem to do more battle with the buildings and columns than you do with the enemies... why you ask? because there are none! I've just about beaten the game (in less than 6 hours I might add), and I've only ran into 5 types of enemies!

No enemies, anywhere... yet so many cool moves with you Diskarmor...Yet no one to use them on! Oh, and don't even think about using them on a boss, cause it just don't work.

Avoid purchase of this game. It makes a good rental however...

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.

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.

Is and Is not an amazing game...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I must first start off this review by saying that I genuinly had a lot of fun playing Rygar on PS2. This sequal to the original NES classic holds up well in some departments, and fails in others, but nothing that would keep this game from well, being any less fun to play.

Now let's start with the goods: The graphics. Yes, the graphics have to be the number 1 thing to mention first because they have got to be probably the most amazing things I've seen in a video game. Now, if you play this you may disagree with me because a lot of the graphics seem more "fantasy" oriented then in a game like Metal Gear Solid, but talking in that point of view I stick with my previous statement. Rygar is created with the upmost detail and his movements flow very well, offering plenty of realism. The levels are monumental, everthing from shadows, to different auras of light are absolutely flawless and breathtaking. I swear some of the levels were just so vast and beautiful I couldn't help but just stare and say "WHOOOOAHHH!" This makes exploration in the game very fun. The controls in the game are also very crisp, responsive and variable. Using your diskarmor (you can knab 3 kinds) you will hack and slash you way through levels being able to use different combo's of moves to destroy your opponents. The diskarmor is truly one of the best and most fun weapons you will use in any video game available today. And third, the soundtrack consists of a very creative and enjoyable symphonic orchestrial type music almost to be able to match wits with Castlevania on PS1. Now, there are other things that make up a good game, like story, challenge, and creativity. This is where Rygar falls.

When it comes to a good story, Rygar is pretty basic but still very tolerable. It's not very fun to follow, it's a little uncomprehendable and sometimes boring where you don't care for the cinematic sequences but just to get on with the action. You come across lot's of different writings which you pick up throughout the game, these are like memo's and such to those who are familiar with Resident Evil or Silent Hill games. You read these to figure out what actually happened to this ancient Greek world, who the bad guys are and what they are doing. Unfortunately for these, they're also not very interesting, and not very easy to follow, so you end up discarding the information as it doesn't seem relevent to the game as a whole. Another dissappointing aspect is the overall challenge in the game. It's too easy. Now, a lot of video games lately have been too easy for the simple fact that games that have too much challenge tend to turn off today's gamers and are seen as unmarketable, so this in turn makes a lot of games nowadays too easy, like this one. The enemies aren't very smart, as they will mostly dance around you and hit you about every 4 or 5 seconds and at the same time, take off very little energy. So all you need to kill these baddies is just the tapping of one of the attack buttons. This is dissappointing seeing as how the diskarmor is such an amazing, versitile weapon but seems never to have to be taken full advantage of. The first couple of bosses add some of a challenge but then as you go further, these guys just become so easy to kill it's almost laughable, it's just too hard to die. Something else that most gamers will find dissapointing is the game's length. I found to not be too long or too short but if you're a die-hard gamer looking for something that'll keep you busy for a while, don't look towards this one. One 5 day rental from this one and you'll most likely be done with it within the first 3 days. Those who don't have as much time on thier hands will find this game a decent length, but will ultimately be unsatisfied with how quickly they got to the end.

Unfortunately due to these downfalls, I had to give this 3 stars, but I do HIGHLY recommemend a rental on this one as it is a whole lot of fun to play without any technical problems like controls to be frustrated with, and if you ignore the bland story and lack of challenge which don't ever hurt the gameplay as a whole.

DON'T buy -- Rent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

On the outside Rygar looks like a pretty cool game. It has a cool weapon type, the diskarmor, and the screenshots are fantastic. But when you start playing it you find that it is sort of boring. There are only a few different types of enemies and for the most part they just dance around you and hit you onece in a while, not that it matters, because their attacks do so little damage that you could stand their for ten minutes, not doing anything, before they killed you. Their are way to many bosses that you have to fight, 14 in all (I Think), and they are easy to kill. When you are fighting you do not have to do combos to kill your enemies, when you try to you leave yourself open to attack and get interupted, which is a shame because the combos are pretty cool. The worst part about it is the length of the game it is only about six hours long. It does not have that much replay value, to me anyway. The game does have a good side, however. The graphics are excellent and the worlds are pretty imaginnative. The combos are reaaly cool, and the idea of diskarmors are cool to. I like the fact that you can get three of them, one is long range, one is medium range and swings in a horizontal arch to hit multiple enemies, and one is really close range but really fast. You can put "mystic stones" into your diskarmors but I only found three while there are supposed to be over thirty of them. Oh yeah, one more thing, the voice acting is BAD. An example is when Rygar says: "I swear my victory to this feather." Thats right he swears to a feather, corny huh.
All in all this game is an okay rental but not worth your 50 bucks.

I Liked It, But You May Not

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The closest comparison I can make to this game would be to say that it is like French cuisine; it tastes so unbelievably good but is served in unsatisfying portions. Be warned, this game is not for everybody. I'll give you the bad news before I give you the good.

This game is way, way, WAYYYY too painfully short. I read reviews proclaiming this very point and simply didn't believe them, convinced that only big nerds were writing them without the common player in mind. I now humbly stand corrected. It is stigmatizing how short this game is. There simply is not enough content in this game. The monsters are too few and too weak, especially when you consider that Rygar is wielding a weapon as potent as the diskarmor. Most of the enemies simply roll over and die without putting up even a minimal fight, even the bosses.

There isn't enough of a hunt and seek type feel to this game either. Most of the items you need for your quest turn up along the path; you just follow along to the next objective and pick up whatever you need along the way. For an adventure styled game, that just doesn't quite cut it; especially when you consider that Rygar's ancestor for the NES frontiered that type of play.

On a minor note, the voice acting and dialogue is absolutely horrifying and unconvincing. This makes it a little more difficult to get into the story.

Now, on to the good. The visuals in this game are brilliant and stunning. Simply put, they are some of the best on the PS2 for the moment. The level Arcadia, the floating city, is quite a spectacle, the backgrounds are amazing and is truly something to behold. The animation is sometimes a little wierd, granted, but overall the backgrounds, the enemies exploding after being beaten sensless by the diskarmor, and the models themselves are all gorgeous.

Beyond the cosmetic qualities comes the diskarmor itself. This for me was the best part of the game. The diskarmor is awesome. It's one of the coolest weapons I've ever seen any character sport in a video game in a long time, and the combos and attack sequences are really cool and fun to use. You can beat up on enemies in so many ways it's rediculous, from swinging them around as a whip against other enemies to juggling them sensless in the air. The diskarmor was a unique idea that I really was impressed with, I just wish they'd have given you opportunity to use it more.

The soundtrack is AMAZING! The moscow symphony did an entire original score for the game, and it truly must be heard to be believed. It's masterful; if it was released on cd for purchase I'd definetely but it, and I rarely buy soundtracks from games even when they are good.

The general story of the game is pretty cool too. It's not the best in the world and at times it's more than a little cheesy (dialogue is TERRIBLE), but overall it's a fun plot.

Overall, this game has moderate replay value and is actually much better through once you get to the harder difficulty settings; otherwise it's just too flippin easy. If you're a casual gamer it may be right up your alley, but more hardcore players may be left half-empty after playing this. ... However, if you're looking for a more serene, beautiful game with great visuals, a stunning soundtrack, and good character design, look no further than this game. I really enjoyed playing this game and will likely play it again, I just wish there would have been more of it.

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.

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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