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why can't you recycle these things!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i feel so bad throwing out perfectly good plastic like this. this game is awwful, they should have made it recyclable.

A nice step for Sony, but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought Legend of Dragoon based on the wonderful things I heard about it from attenders of the E3 gaming convention...here's the breakdown:

In-Game graphics - very poor for a game that hopes to compete with the likes of the Final Fantasy series...blocky, ugly polygonal characters are remniscent of FF7 and Wild Arms series'.

FMV graphics - some elements are lacking, like character movement is still blocky and we're all spoiled by the emotional FMV from FF8. However, the actual video dynamics are superb and action-packed...one sequence featuring a huge clash between Dragoons and Winglies is particularly nice.

Music - This is where the game really, REALLY hurts. The soundtrack is so bland, boring, and repetetive that I need to turn the sound off if I've been in any one town for too long. Sony also took a chance when they did character voice overs: after all, the video game industry is infamous for poor character voice overs. However, most of them are pretty skillfully done. Some of the attack names might have needed work and are very silly when pronounced (i.e. "die...more and more!" and "hyah! madness hero!").

Overall, the game is lacking that finishing touch (many, many spelling errors, cheesy dialogue, and grammar problems bug the heck out of me). If you're a hardcore RPG fan and don't mind linear, repetetive action, then Legend of Dragoon is worth a shot...

wow just wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Three years in the making Development team of over 100 members A new magnificant fantasy unfolds in this role playing epic cool heck of a 4 disc grapihc stunner

I mean this game is amazing. I just have the demo and thats great. I am goign to buy the real thing sometime soon

-wow

All beauty and no brains...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: October 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Legend of Dragoon is one of those games that you either love or despise, I of course belong to the later group.

As one reviewer already mentioned, Legend of Dragoon was Sony's answer to rival Square-Enix's insanely popular Final Fantasy VII. I have to laugh when it took them three years to cook up this title that can't even dent the Final Fantasy fanchise.

I don't think the Final Fantasy series is the greatest thing since sliced bread (I actually like the Wild Arms series the most), but the only thing Legend of Dragoon really had going for it was its graphics, which I will admit where pretty sweet at the time.

Outside the graphical engine, Legend of Dragoon is second rate RPG in every category. Lame enemies, lackluster story, generic locations, and some of the worst music to ever accompany an PSX RPG ever (it's really that bad). Fights are also annoying due to the so-called "Additions" system which has you doing timed hits all day (yeah, that's what I call fun when I have to hit a button 8 times in a row at just the correct moment just to attack).

Other problems also arise, such as the fact no one can use magic outside of their dragoon transformations, meaning their is really no way to heal your characters except for items (which you become way too dependent on in this game, and can only carry so many). Outside the dragoon tranformations the battle system is very weak.

Play Legend of Dragoon only after you have destroyed every other PSX PRG. By that time you'll realize that this is not what any and all PSX RPG's should be compared against. Even if Final Fantasy is extremely overrated at times, even the worst FF is better than this. I don't think I'll play this one again.

A waste

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

There is little to say that hasn't been said. I didn't even make it to the end of the first disk. Why did I have to get psychoanalyzed by some weird woman? Why, exactly, did I have to enter the tournament? Why was there an unwinnable battle at the end of it with a guy who looked like a cross between Sephiroth and Lee Chaolan? And why - this is where I said the rental place could have the game back - did I have to play these idiotic minigames after the tournament?

Now look. I *like* mini-games ... when they're used well. The motorcycle chase, the snow-boarding, etc., in FF7 served to break things up a bit and add a bit of variety. But I don't like being *forced* to play them when there is no compelling plot reason, especially when the games themselves make little sense.

That probably sounds pretty petty, so let me go on a bit. Why is the female romantic lead sweet and innocent and pure and using the White gem (and dressed in white)? She's just another damsel-in-distress; you have to rescue her *twice* on the first disk. Dart is boring, Lavitz is ... well ... boring ... Rose could have become interesting, but nothing much was being done with her.

Musically and graphically undistinguished (while it has some great stuff, most of it wasn't particularly impressive). The dragoon idea was interesting, but handled very clumsily. Pity.

Great visuals but thats all...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: March 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Once you get past the eye candy this is really a very poor RPG made worse by an awful translation. Uninteresting characters and a weak story combined with CONSTANT...and I do mean CONSTANT...random battles make this a title to avoid. Add to that several misspellings and terrible voiceovers and you have to say shame on Sony for rushing this translation to the U.S. market.

Try Valkyrie Profile or Suikoden before wasting your hard earned cash on this one.

A frighteningly flawed corporate mistake

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

.... This game is nothing but a merchandising blitz created by a company with absolutely no worthwhile experience in the genre. They simply grabbed a few random RPGs from their local EB and jumbled the plots into one less than cohesive whole. I've played this same exact story, with the exact same characters, in several different RPGs. And what about the gameplay? Slow and clunky control, random encounters that occur with every other step, and pretty painted backgrounds that fast become horrifying jumbles of pixels as soon as a fight begins. The list, my friends, can go on forever. This game could have been so much more, but the lack of heart and a little originality turned it into one huge mistake of Sony's part, and I'm sure they're still smarting from the blow.

loads very slow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: January 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

they put way too much complicated things into the game, and the system just can't take it. don't buy this one

clogs your memory card

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: January 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game literaly cloged my memory card like the arteries of a fat man!

AWESOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the best rpgs i have ever played its up there with FF7 and FF8 which are really good games its very long but that is a good thing!!!! after u beat it u want to beat it again!

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