Uncover the dark secrets of dragons, dragoons, and magic in the land of Endiness in "The Legend of Dragoon." This Sony PlayStation 1 roleplaying game spans an epic adventure bringing together a group of heroes with the sacred, hidden legend of a dragoon. The heroes, including Dart, Shana, Lavitz, Rose, and Kongol, must confront their own personal pain and political strife to save the world. Now you can experience one of the greatest classic dragon games for the PS1."The Legend of Dragoon" was released in 2000 for the original PlayStation. This epic RPG includes four discs and lets you take on the role of Dart, a warrior returning to his home village. The village was sacked, and his dear friend Shana was kidnapped. However, these horrific events are only the tip of the game's intricately layered plot. You control Dart on his journey through Endiness, where he meets with Rose, a taciturn, battle-hardened woman with a mysterious past. Along the way they recover Shana, meet with the war hero Lavitz, and encounter Kongol, a silent, strong warrior of few words. Up to eight heroes can join Dart on his adventures across Endiness, all of whom are able to become Dragoons.The game adds a new twist on turn-based combat for role-playing games and boss battles. When you choose to attack, you can chain combos together by hitting "X" at the right moment. Each team member has different attack abilities and will call out the name of the attack if the player successfully completes the chain. This attack mechanic is designed for intense play and quicktime events, and it keeps you on the edge of your seat in each battle.Battles against bosses and normal enemies are won with weapons or magic. These are available only to a character who has transformed into a Dragoon. Your dragon weapons increase in strength and attack power as you purchase new swords, axes, and bows/arrows from merchants to take on a boss or cut through weaker enemies. Your magical skills increase with experience and are drawn from the four elements of wind, water, fire, and earth. Each character has their own different style of magic. For example, Rose uses dark black magic, and Dart has fire skills. Each disc offers a new section of the world to explore and more lives to save on your quest for personal vengeance.Each boss you encounter has their own dark ambitions for Endiness, and some are even gifted with the powers of a Dragoon themselves. The intricately rendered, full-motion video cutscenes make "The Legend of Dragoon" a game that is a true jewel of the classic PSX days. You are rewarded for your hard work in each section of the game by these gorgeous, richly colored scenes available throughout each disc."The Legend of Dragoon" for the Sony PlayStation is a game truly ahead of its time. Innovative gameplay, RPG characters who rose above the usual tropes, and section after section of stylish cities and battle dungeons are all available here. "Legend of Dragoon" is rated 'T' for animated blood and animated violence.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
MPN
PS1_LEGEND_OF_DRAGOON
UPC
0711719449126
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3686
Product Key Features
Platform
Sony PlayStation 1
Rating
T-Teen
Features
Become a Dragoon warrior and defeat a rising evil Lead a party of three in turn-based battles Select the best element for each attack to deal maximum damage
Sony's attempt at an RPG turned out to be a good one. Taking some classic RPG elements and adding a twist. Sony successfully makes The Legend of Dragoon an amazing and challenging RPG. You play as Dart. A young and ambitious teenager who gets tossed into the battle to save the world once his "girlfriend" gets kidnapped. Along they way you meet various characters all who add their own personality to the story. Dart discovers that he is a Dragoon Knight and uses this power to save the world.
The battle system is very different compared to other RPG's. When the player attacks, they must press a button that appears on screen in order to continue the attack and to successfully complete the combo. This adds a whole new depth to the combat and makes it more involving.
The only part of the game that might make it more difficult (and add many hours of game play) is the leveling system. All the party members share earned experience. (example: You have 3 people in your party and earn 15 exp in battle. therefore each character gets 5 exp) This can be really painful when you're trying to level up before a boss battle, or to just get stronger.
The game spans 4 Discs and has fully Rendered Backgrounds (like the Final Fantasy series (7,8,9). The cut scenes are plentiful and are full CG with voice acting, that actually adds to the video rather then taking away from it. They're just that good.
The legend of Dragoon, although with it's weak points (leveling system) is a great RPG. If you want to try something that isn't made by SquareEnix but made with the same quality, The Legend of Dragoon is a great choice. When you finally beat the final boss, and watch the last cut-scene. You'll feel that you've accomplished something great. And start hoping for The Legend of Dragoon 2.Read full review
Fantastic Throwback of a game! Could have been a Final Fantasy contender if they kept on it!
What an amazing game. I adore this game so much. It brings back the simpler days when things were easy. The story of Dart and his journey throughout 4 discs is amazing. And we're talking 4 full discs, this isn't Final Fantasy where the last disc was the final dungeon. You still got plenty of game left once you hit that 4th disc. The cutscenes and graphics were ahead of the time when it came out.
A friend let me borrow her copy of the game, and after three hours of playing, I was hooked. How could I have missed this when it first came out?
Easily, I didn't own a playstation back then. XP
I love the story line, and the graphics, new and epic for its time. The game play is quick to pick up, if not a bit annoying when I can't hit the action response just right, especially for the more complex moves learned later on. But nonetheless it's very easy to understand and pick up.
I don't know much about the development of the game, but I've read somewhere that it took 100 people 2 years to make, or something like that.
The graphics and game play are similar to some of the Final Fantasy games, as well as the random battle method of playing. However there are three different 'grounds' to play on: The world map leaves you to follow a preset path that opens at various intervals in the game (the annoying thing being you can't pass through an area to get through another, you have to go through the area to get to the other area), the battle map which is something like Final Fantasy with the attack, guard, item and run options, later complimented with Dragoon state and under special circumstances Special option. And third your area state, where you interact with NPCs and wander around looking for special things and random stuff.
The soundtrack is entertaining. I personally like the opening theme "If You Believe" even though you can only hear a snip-it of at the game menu.
4 discs of epic fun! And definitely has +10 in replay value. How many games out there nowadays honestly have a replay value? Ok, so I'm a bit biased.Read full review
Unfortunately the PlayStation was at the end of its lifespan when they decided to release Legend of Dragoon. However, the game pushes everything to the limit. The story, gameplay, graphics, all of it compound into an excellent RPG that could have been a good contender against the Final Fantasy series. The battle system switches it up in a good way so that you have to stay focused on the task at hand with the powerful Additions. Using Dragoon Magic? Even better.
Highly recommended game for anyone who enjoys RPGs.
Sony Legend of Dragoon is a pretty good RPG and was reveloutinary at the time.
Story.
The story is the weakest part of the game falling over every Japanese RPG cliche in the book. Basically it follows Dart who has return to his adoptive home town after failing to find the black monster which orginally killed his parents. But his home town has been burn down and his child hood friend Shana kidnapped. Dart rescues Shana but one thing leads to another and Dart finds out that he is a dragoon, a person who has an ability to transformed into magic armor with wings. Again the story is cliche is the black monster one of the charecters helping Dart, yeap. Is his girlfriend really a serious danger yeap. And you see these plot points coming a mile away, while playing it I said the only way it could get more cliche is if Darts dad comes out still alive and the ring master of the bad guys, I had my face in my palm while switching out disc 3.
Graphics our pretty decent for PS1, not has good has some of the later Final Fantasy but pretty good, what makes it an achivment is that you have a lot of fully voiced and computer animated CGI scenes something rare at the time.
Sound wise you get some decent music and you get charecters that actually have some chatter during battle, something we take for granted now days but back then pretty cool for an RPG.
On the gameplay Legend of Dragoon is pretty standard JRPG you follow the story, complete task, and level up your charecter. What makes it unique is how you level up, while you still have a base levle what matters most is the attack combo you can equip.
When you attack a little square appears pressing X at the right time will let another square appear, when you do all the button presses right your charecter will finsih off the combo for extra damage. The more successful combos you do the more powerful the current combo becomes, and you can unlock harder combos.
Also doing combos right builds up your SP bar up that allows you to take dragoon form that allows for special attacks and magic. Like the combos the more you use Dragoon form the more powerful it becomes.
In the end legend of dragoon is not the best RPG on the PS1, but a pretty damn good one and is defintley worth checking out.Read full review
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