Reviewed on Playstation.

I was on an RPG craze playing many RPGs in the Playstation library and came across The Legend of Dragoon. I saw that the game was multiple discs and at that time, had an inkling that it would be a great game. It turned out above average and that was about it.

I had played this after playing Final Fantasy Vii and to be quite honest...that was probably why my expectations of an RPG game were so high and this fell at that spot, the comedown period so to speak. I was still itching to play another RPG but it didn't bring me that same joy that Final Fantasy VII did. Now the game isn't awful by any stretch. It's a decent game with a different battle system but it gets very tiresome with the having to press X at the right time. Turn-based RPGs are straight forward, but when it's this pseudo action RPG but not an action game where you're hitting buttons to do Additional Damage, that really turns me off. The same mindset turned me off playing Super Mario RPG quite honestly, as the behemoth of a game that it is and how enjoyable it is, that extra part having to hit the A button at the right time to do additional damage turned me completely off. I'm not sure why but it did.

You're getting a solid 50 hours of gameplay here to get you through to the end of the game, so it's not like Rhapsody where it's done before it started. You get an entire story, your traditional turn-based RPG, and those awesome Playstation graphics that looks quite awful right now, but at the time, very passable. That's really what stood out when I think back on this game. The story didn't stand out to me like other games, and I just remember getting tired of the battle system. If I've picked my attack in a turn-based game, I don't want to be hitting other buttons to continue my combo or increase my damage.

Of the many games, I revisit on my Raspberry PI 3...this will not be one of them. It'll just be...a long and distance memory of something that I played, and that's that.