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Legend of the Dragoon

Does anyone remember this game from way back then in 2000?

In my opinion, it has one of the best plots of all the PS1 games and PS2 game.

It was seriously an awesome game with great graphics at its time.

Would love to play it. In fact, I did play one of my friends' disks for a while, but it was scratched and kept crashing at one point, so I never really gotten to play it. And since the game is virtually impossible to get in Europe...

*sigh*

Spoiler for LOD Story:

The story begins when Dart, the protagonist, is heading home from a 5 year long journey to pursue the black monster, who killed his parents and destroyed his birth city: Neet. On the way, he is attacked by Feyrbrand, a dragon controlled by the Sandora, a rebel faction in the Serdian civil war. After Dart gets hit by the dragon, he gets saved by a mysterious female heroine named Rose, though they soon part ways. When he arrives at his hometown, Seles, he discovers that it has been destroyed by Sandora, and that Shana, Dart’s childhood friend (and later in the game, his love interest), has been taken away. Dart sets out to rescue her. Throughout the game, he is periodically joined by people that he helps along the way.

After rescuing Shana from Hellena prison with the help of the recently escaped: Lavitz Slambert, King Albert sends the party to defend the fort-city of Hoax against attacks from Sandora. Among the attacking Sandora is Kongol, the last survivor of a race of giants known as the Gigantos. It is in his battle with Kongol that Dart first gains his ability to transform into a Dragoon using the Dragoon Spirit of the Red-Eyed Dragon with the help of Rose. Kongol is injured, but survives and retreats. With the fort safe, they travel to the city of Lohan. In the city, they meet a man named Lloyd in the Heroes Tournament, supposedly the greatest swordsman in the world. Later they discover that he kidnapped King Albert and took the Moon Gem from him, an ancient artifact held by the Royal Family. Lavitz desperately tries to save King Albert, buts gets killed by Lloyd's Dragon Buster, a sword created by the Winglies to kill Dragoons. The king is rescued, but Lloyd gets away with the Moon Gem.

They soon discover that Lloyd is gathering other artifacts held by human kings since the days of the Wingly Empire, and at the same time, causing disasters in the lands that he visits. While the party tries to reverse Lloyd’s work, Lloyd manages to obtain all three of the artifacts, and also obtains the Dragoon Spirit of the Divine Dragon, the most powerful dragon in the world. Dart and the party finally manage to defeat Lloyd, who then agrees to take them to Emperor Diaz, ancient Emperor of Gloriano during the Dragon Campaign. Emperor Diaz reveals several things to the party.

During the height of the Wingly Empire over eleven thousand years ago, a creature called the Virage Embryo, also known as the God of Destruction, came to the world to end all other life. Before it could be born, the Winglies used their magical power to separate its body from its soul, making it unable to destroy them. They then cast the body into the sky, where it became the Moon That Never Sets, and sealed it using several magical Signets, one in each of the ancient Wingly cities, to prevent the soul and body from reuniting. The soul of the God of Destruction was originally placed inside the Crystal Sphere, which was worn by the ancient Wingly ruler Melbu Frahma to increase his power. However, during the Dragon Campaign, when the Dragoons assaulted Kadessa, the capital city of the Ancient Winglies, the Crystal Sphere was shattered during the fight between Melbu Frahma and Zieg Feld, leader of the Dragoons.

Ever since, the soul of the God of Destruction has wandered the Earth and, every one hundred and eight years, possesses the body of a human child in an attempt to return to its body. The body can be summoned if the Signets are destroyed, which can be done using the immense magical power contained within the artifacts that Lloyd gathered, called the Divine Moon Objects. At this time, the human that is the soul of the God of Destruction is Shana. Emperor Diaz then reveals himself to be Zieg Feld, Dart's father and leader of the Dragoons that fought alongside Rose in the Dragon Campaign. After Zieg defeated Melbu Frahma, Melbu cast a spell that both petrified him and kept Melbu's spirit alive within Zieg's body. Finally, it is revealed that Rose is the Black Monster that destroyed Dart’s village, in an attempt to kill the person carrying the soul of the God of Destruction.

After all this is revealed, Zieg (or, more accurately, Melbu Frahma, who is now possessing Zieg's body) takes Shana away and proceeds to destroy the remaining three Signet Spheres that seal the Moon That Never Sets, the flesh of the God of Destruction, causing it to fall from the sky and land on the Divine Tree. He then carries her to the body of the God of Destruction, so that the body will sense the presence of its soul and prepare to restore itself. Instead, Melbu Frahma unites with the body himself, taking the form and power of the God of Destruction. Zieg is released from Melbu Frahma’s possession, and aids the party in their attempt to defeat Melbu. The party defeats him, but at the cost of Rose and Zieg who sacrifice themselves to destroy Melbu Frahma. Everyone else is able to return home to live their own lives.

Brings back good memories. They need to make a remake.

Rose is without a doubt the most kickass girl in a videogame.

Ever.

The game had one huge issue though: as you progressed, turning into Dragoons simply became useless and even detrimental becuase your final human combo was far easier to pull off and far better than your dragoon combo.

And when you transformed into a dragoon, there was always some enemy mechanism that punished you for doing so.

"You transform into a dragoon. Lloyd whacks you with Dragon Buster for a one hit KO".

Indeed they do need to remake it, with a better dragoon system, and better voice acting.

Awesome story though.

Legend of the Dragoon was probably among the best games on the PlayStation. I never did finish it though but it was a lot of fun.

Rose was indeed awesome :heh:

And yeah I remember Lloyd doing that. You could counter it though with an Accessory but it required you knowing in advance the enemy would punish you for using Dragoon.

Whatever you do, DON'T play the PAL version of this game. The conversion is so bad it ruins the game's timed combos.

Really? Never had any problems with them, at least for as far as I could get.

Moot point though, since the PAL version is virtually unobtainable anyway. T_T

I remember it, and actually tried replaying it recently (I found it in a bargain bin). Unfortunately it crashed repeatedly, right after a boss. Which means I had to fight the boss over and over again, and it wasn't exactly easy either. Eventually I managed to get past that point, but then my arms starting hurting from all the button mashing and timed hits (well, technically they started hurting because I was using the computer with bad arm posture, but playing LoD certainly didn't help). And then I forgot about it.

Maybe I should get back to it. It's hard to respect the graphics though. I wish they'd stuck to 2D sprites for the PlayStation era; I'd rather have a beautiful sprite than an ugly polygon any day.

Edit: "Madness... HeroOoOoOoOo....

... That boss didn't happen to be that rolling bomb tossing hermit-like guy, wouldn't he?

I remember this game. The battle system was really good. Hopefully it releases on the PSN in the near future since its an Sony game.

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Originally Posted by Keroko (Post 2226422)

... That boss didn't happen to be that rolling bomb tossing hermit-like guy, wouldn't he?

No, it was the water dragon + blue dragoon boss.

For the PS era Legend of the Dragoon had some pretty top-notch graphics I believe.

Of course NOW it looks ugly and pixelated, but for its time...!

Lloyd- "TOos low!" , "Over here!"

I loved the first time you figh Lloyd, he pwns you so hard.

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Originally Posted by krisslanza (Post 2226870)

For the PS era Legend of the Dragoon had some pretty top-notch graphics I believe.

Of course NOW it looks ugly and pixelated, but for its time...!

The CG movies and pre-rendered backgrounds were impressive at the time. However, even then, the animation and combat visuals left much to be desired when compared to other 3D games.

Definitely some good memories playing this game. Of course it's now in a condition that I can't get it to run well. Still at the very least can smile when thinking about the adventure. Some pretty good times and a few sad events in there as well.

Yeah, there were a few bad points to it. The most annoying thing would have to be all the random battles. You would just finish battling and you take two steps and boom! there's another battle. So I'd have to run away from each one. :(

If a prequel or sequel was made(I'd prefer prequel) on the ps3 would be amazing. With the PS3's power the graphics would be amazing and with a few fixes to game play it would easily be a great game. Only problem would be is getting the name of LoD out there.

BTW, there is a petition somewhere on the internet of people wanting a remake of LoD. There is over 18000 signatures. I thought it was pretty neat. Just google Legend of the Dragoon two and it'll come up on the first page.

I remember it being beautiful, but hampered by an irritating battle system. As I recall, your inventory was extremely limited too, which resulted in issues for healing during boss fights since there was no character strictly devoted to healing (at least not in the beginning from what I remember).

The world map was also a linear mess of connect the dots.

I still have this game although the game irritated me because I had to change disks to go back to old locations and the fact that the fighting system while new was horrible at lest in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Kayin (Post 2227097)

If I recall the closest thing to a healer was Shana/Miranda. They had some healing abilities I think.

I never found an issue with LoD's battling. At least you had an idea when a random encounter would start because of the little arrow and the battles themselves weren't horribly repetitive since you wanted to keep your eyes open to pull off combos and avoid counters.

Well any issues with the battle system I might have had faded from memory a while ago :heh:. But don't think it was too bad and certainly didn't offset my interest in the story and characters.

Definitely a game that I'd be all for getting a remake. And not an unsatisfying remake like Wild Arms: Alter Code F. Could even get behind a prequel since there is a story to be told there.