The Legend of Dragoon

The Good
After playing Final Fantasy 9, I was addicted to the console RPG world and I wanted to sink my teeth into another epic. I remember playing the The Legend Of Dragoon demo (many times) and I knew that it would be the next one. Using some of the money I made from my summer job, I purchased it and got home, opened up the package, popped in the disk. Here are my thoughts:

+The artwork and packaging was beautiful. It looked cinematic and epic. Very inviting indeed.

+Beautiful in-game graphics. Characters are distinctive from one and another. Pre-rendered environments were “alive” with waterfall/river effects and so on.

+Turning into "Dragoons" was a nice twist instead of summoning super-powered beings like in the other console RPGs.

+“Warning indicator” for an incoming random battle was good feature.

+“Guard” command that heals some HP was another good feature.

+Compelling epic story with a lot of mystery, backstory and plot twists. It is helped further with the lovely cut-scenes.

+Interesting heroes and villains with their own distinctive personalities and motives.

+Beautiful intro and ending song: “If You Still Believe.”

The Bad
-Most music theme's could've been better.

-The main hero's love interest Shana, was too weak! I know she was filling the role of damsel in distress but come on! It's a disgrace!

-The game offers you choices and but what you choose, doesn’t matter. What’s the point!?!

-Bad translation and awkward dialogue. It brought down the storytelling a couple of times.

The Bottom Line
Not perfect but I would recommend it to those who don't play console RPG's often.