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WOW!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 33
Date: May 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing. From when you see the opening cinema to where flashing explosions of the final palace in the end, this game has it all. You get many characters, items, along with great graphics and a geat plot. Also, there are great surprises.

The Legand of Dragoon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 28
Date: June 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For all those who played and loved Final Fantasy VII, here is the sequal you've been waiting for! 3D redering background graghics, and select targeting,(meaning that when you attack with your sword, whip etc. you can target the waist, arm etc.) you'll love this game! Ohh and did I forget to mention that Legand of Dragoon is made by sony. Also, the difference between FF7 and LD is that remember those limit breaks, well now you have Dragoons. This is where you transform into a monster of that certain charecter, and as your charecter and your party get stronger, you're Dragoons learn new moves. Aside from the great graphics, Lengand of Dragoon seems to [draw] you into the story, and leaves you hanging on what's going to happen next. You'll also love the cinematic scenes!

Great graphics, but lacks the gameplay to back it up..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I think the video game websites said it best: Legend of Dragoon is a wonderfully rendered game that lacks heart. The Graphics are 9/10. At best. The main flaw of this game is the terrible translation from the original japanese version. The translators seem to have trouble getting the main point across in plain english. This plus the fact that the writers are trying to be funny makes the story more of a joke (a bad joke) than a serious adventure. Looking for a four disc epic? Either look for Final Fantasy XIII or wait for chrono cross, those games are sure to please.

Final Fantasy? What's That?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Legend of Dragoon is awesome. In fact, in my opinion, it's the only game worthy to compete with Squaresoft's Final Fantasy series.

After playing most RPGs, I think, "It needed this," or, "It could have done without that." This is most likely because after playing Final Fantasy, you're spoiled. The Legend of Dragoon, however, doesn't make me think those things, yet it's also not a mere FF rip-off.

The story, which should be the basis of all RPGs, is excellent: you take on the role of a young man (that's right, MAN, not hyperactive 13-year-old) as he tries to avenge the death of his parents. While he does this, two empires are waging war with each other and he gets caught in the middle.

The battle system is very different, combining turn-based combat with timed button presses. You can also transform into "Dragoons" and unleash powerful magic and physical attacks.

Graphically, Dragoon is up to par with FFVIII. The characters (who are realistically proportioned; no gigantic heads) move on pre-rendered backrounds that generally have a lot going on in them, which creates a realistic world rather than a still picture. The cinemas are gorgeous, and they actually have solid voice acting too!

So in short, RPG gamers give Dragoon a try. You're in for a treat.

OH MY GOD!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

three words "OH MY GOD" this is the coolest game, the game is the coolest rpg ive played,ive only got the demo but i ordered the game and it will get here in a few days. anyway this game has cool graphics, easy controls, and the battle system rocks, FF8 is boring you just choose an attack and press R1 sometimes to make the attack hevier. in LOD you have to press the X button to make the player do combos which is cool at first its hard to get the timming right but after a few battles its easy to get it. then you say what about the depth of the fighting well thats where the dragoons come in. when you fight if you attack a few times you can change into a dragoon and do your on attacks or cast cool magic spells on your enemy. when you attack you also have to get button combos for a even cooler attack and its even easier. i have not found on thing about this game thats bad every thing is awsome i cant wait for my copy to come if your a rpg fan you got to get this game. i only wish you could give 10 stars to the perfect game.

Final Fantasy What?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Before I bought The Legend of Dragoon, I looked over some reviews and saw both positive and negative things about the game. Taking a risk, I bought the game, and found it to be one of the best RPGs I have ever played.

Dragoon takes elements from Super Mario RPG by using timed attacks, or "additions". It must be said that it is a unique system of combat that will make the gamer have to "get into" the game to do good.

Along with gameplay, the graphics shine above any other rpg, including Final Fantasy 8. The story is great, and I thought about it even when I wasn't playing it. Worried about replay value? Don't worry, because the game spans 4cds and takes around 70-80 hours to beat.

If you are even remotely into rpgs, and you are looking for a great title for the summer, buy this game immediatly. You will be thanking yourself afterwards.

Great battles-beautiful story-a must buy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: June 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for an RPG that is extremely well designed, you have found it! Here in Legend of Dragoon, you take controll of Dart, a guy on a quest to avenge the death of his parents. I must say that the battle system is one of the best I've ever seen...period. You take the standard three characters into battle with you. They have the usual commands: Attack, Defend, Item, and Run. But The Attack command is much different. By using this, you gain access to that character's special attacks. When the boxes align right on top of the attacker, a tap of the X button causes the character to attack again. You continue until the character executes the special attack. But enemies can counter attack during this sequence. Then the lines turn red, it's a sign to hit the O button rather X to block and keep attacking. But this isn't the end. The more you fight, the more SP (Spirit Points) you obtain. When you have at least one, you gain access to yet another command, Dragoon. When you select this, that character will transform into a Dragoon. Depending on how many SPs you have, the number of turns you remain in that form is determined. In this new form, your character dons really cool armor and wings. They now only have access to two commands, but they are the best you have. The first is Attack, but it's different from before. You now have a circle on the right side of the screen with a mark on the top. When you press the X button, a light will move clockwise around the side like a clock on steroids. Pressing X when the light meets the mark will increase your power. When finished, your character will pummel the target with devistating attacks. The next command enables you to cast spells. Depending on the character and level, different types of magic are avalible. The only real problem with the game are it's graphics. The backgrounds are great, but the characters could look better, although they still look okay. Also, the spells take almost as long as the Guardian Force summons in Final Fantasy VIII. Other than that, I highly suggest this to anybody looking for an RPG with a Final Fantasy type atmosphere, yet a highly original and addictive battle system.

It has its flaws.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 23 / 34
Date: June 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sorry if my rating seems pretty harsh, but, remember now, in accordance to my rating system a "3" indicates a good game that simply isn't quite perfect. Now that I've tried to discourage outright bashing, you may proceed to the actual review:

Legend of Dragoon is an "epic" (the word has lost all meaning a loooooong time ago...) 4-CD RPG, supposedly with 80 hours of gameplay (that almost always turns out to be half of that), and a rather unique semi-real-time combat engine. Sorry if I sound vague, explanations do follow. It's supposed to have an "old-school feel" (whatever that is...). Nevertheless, in my opinion Legend of Dragoon has its share of flaws that may limit the target audience.

PIECE-BY-PIECE:

Graphics are probably the strongest part of this game. At least the pre-rendered parts (pre-rendered means that the backgrounds are like paintings - pixels, not manipulable polygons). In places the backgrounds are simply beautiful. Most are very much realistic and have a certain unique, picturesque feel to them, especially the ones where you can appreciate the details - in cities and such. However, during the drawn-out battle scenes the view changes to a rather choppy vista of the battleground which is never too pretty in itself, plus the enemies and your characters. They say the bigger the canvas the more detail you can fit on it. Not so with Legend of Dragoon. You can count the polygons on the your larger adversaries (Crystal Golem, anyone?).

Speaking of the battle system, it really is pretty unique. There are two squares, a smaller one that is stationary, and a larger rotating one that is "collapsing" into the smaller center square. The success of each attack is determined by the timing of your button press when these two squares overlap. Believe me, it takes little time to get used to the system, as in the beginning it forgives quite a lot of error. Additional attacks are different for each character (in fact, each has from 3 to 8 of them, attained at different levels), and they range in pacing and difficulty. The problem is that you are forced to pay attention to the featureless squares rather than the scenery, or most of the attack is lost. Not that there's much to look at in battle.

I didn't like the music at all. I played Phantasy Star some 5 years ago, and I still remember most of the characteristic tunes. I played Legend of Dragoon a few days ago and I remember literally nothing except the ever-present battle tune. How a Genesis game can pull off better tunes than a Playstation is quite beyond me.

The story isn't cluttered or overly complex, but just shallow. Events seem to be thrown together in a hurry and you are given little notice before you set off for someplace. The travel part wouldn't have given me as much trouble if travel hadn't been so convoluted. You only get one path from here to there, and it always goes through a volcano, a haunted forest, and a savanna, and there's no way way to bypass them. Most of the characters seem flat and shallow throughout the game and change rather little. This is probably the only game in which the hero enters a life-or-death competition directly after saving his fiance's life. I don't know who created the plot, but it certinaly wasn't a competent writer.

The gameplay itself is actually pretty fun. If not for the rather slow level gain, acquiring new magic and additions is quite interesting, as is the wealth of items (that you only get well after the beginning - and that may turn off the casual gamer). Some of your foes are at least imaginative (if not bizarre), and the art alone is worth half of the price. However, the game has a lion share of profanities (stuck in the conversations for no obvious reason - probably because of the inaccurate translation from Japanese. In a word - beware.

The Best RPG Ever Made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 41 / 47
Date: June 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Legend of Dragoon is the best RPG ever made for any game system. The graphics surpass even those of Final Fantasy VIII. The game itself has an extremely immersive storyline. After you get into the game a little, you get the ability to transform into a "Dragoon" during battle, (Similar to the "Limit Breaks" of the Final Fantasy games) Which is a warrior that has the power of a dragon. each magic spell has a cinema that is completely different from the one before, unlike Final Fantasy where each character kind of had their own little motion that they went through to cast a spell, Also there are things called "additions" that when you hit the attack button at a certain time you will unleash a devastating barrage of attacks. I reccomend this game for anyone who loves RPG's it is the best game I have ever played. It will take some doing for any future titles to even come close to what this game achieves. Did I mention that all the cutscenes have voice acting, and when you cast a spell or correctly achieve the addition that the character yells the name of the spell or addition.

JEEZ! 4 DISCS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Man! I got this from my local Babbages. I got sick on a Wendsday, and at that time I only had 1:15 logged on, and thought it was neat. I sat down to play a little to pass my sick hours away, and it did! Before I realized it, I had logged over 10 more hours on! The timed hit system where once you attack, you must press the X button again to make a more powerful hit may remind player of the wonderful Super Mario RPG, but this is much more complicated, as you may be required to do the timed hit several tiems in succession (The highest I have seen is to hit it 6 times correctly in a row! The graphics were well worth the effort.) The storyline is interesting, but so far doesn't stand out in my mind. The CG animation is Eye-dropping, and the in-game grapics are about FF 8's level, just below Vagrant Story's. On ething: if you use a PSX wallet to hold your games, first: keep the manual with you! It's very important. Second, it's 4 discs, so make room! BUY THIS!

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