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I still count on the indie devs to repropose the formula of Shogo!

I appreciated W&G when I was a kid, but the avatar resembling that style is more like a coincidence. I did it just for this video just to mimic the claymation theme.

I would keep the turns and review the combo system to make it xenogears style perhaps, but I wouldn't mind it remaining the same. that is, I think that certain classics, rather than remakes, which cost TOO much and very few can afford, need simple remasters done well with some improvements. Mainly it's always a problem of game speed which can be solved with a fast forward function (the days of pompous and long animations, which at the time were a novelty that impressed young players, are no longer the case). that is, put it that way, you just need to know how to emulate them and even casual encounters can be tolerated. then the nice thing is to see how, with simple and limited means, the game was able to make the player feel involved in the storyline because these authors were full of passion and will to innovate.

​@@BucolicInsights I think adding a modern combat system and some climbing would stay within the bounds of "some improvement". Unfortunately turn-based combat is outdated design, many are avoiding Atlus stuff like ReFantazio for that sole reason (even if they sped it up) and the devs definitely had fighting games in their mind.

I thought ReFantazio was making very big numbers.

@@BucolicInsights Yeah but I think it's a game for a (big) niche that knows what it wants (and bought it immediately), but the trend is definitely moving away from turn-based, see the latest 4 FF games

Google translate: Fico feliz em ler sobre pessoas que realmente aprecio isso

Yeah, the original video was so shallow without those parts.

Glad you liked it. Actually I didn't put much effort in this video. 'twas just a quickie because I didn't want to leave the channel without content for too long.

@BucolicInsights I understand brother. Almost no one talked about this game, your video is an eye candy for my eyes. Please don't lose your accent.

Losing my accent would be like losing my head. I mean, it's quite impossible, lol.

Southern italy.

You mean Spacebase Startopia? Damn I even forgot that existed...

Hi, thanks for the suggestion! Believe me, I would do a lot of games but I don't have much time and I've already scheduled the next ones. Also, I'll reprise JRPGs meybe in December because they take a lot of time and already decided which ones to cover. I even bought 'em for collection purposes. Thousand Arms looks very nice, but it will take a lot of time till I'll play it (I also checked the prices.. it's pretty expensive D: !! But maybe I found a good sale outside of ebay...). In the meanwhile I hope you'll find something else interesting in this channel to check.

@@contrabandresearch8409 yeah, good ol' stuff. If you're interested in old and forgotten FPSs I also covered XS (I like to call it the most unknown "revolutionary" fps) and Requiem: Avenging Angel.

Hi, It's been a long time since I saw you in the comment section!

@@BucolicInsights I have been absolutely swamped with work, but I finally had some free time to catch up on your videos. Don't be put off by those who complain about the accent or any pronunciation errors, the important thing is that you manage to convey your love and enthusiasm for the games, which you're doing fantastically !!

Actually, when I see people complain 'bout my english I don't feel anything bad. It's part of the game! I even find my own first videos hardly listenable, lmao. I must add that I was expecting much more bashing but, instead, it has been quite calm.

Let's hope there will be a remaster that will increase its popularity!

Armor progression is also top tier too as the armor gets more and more Seru-y.

That's so unfortunate :c I mean, i'ts not a problem (I actually laughed). When I started this past time I knew that many people would denounce my accent, errors, etc. It's part of the game, lol.

Yeah, I always loved these flawed yet ambitious games. Replaying it after two decades has been kind of entertaining: the sudden deaths, the savescumming, the "wtf should I do now?!" moments, it brings me back to old days.

If you've not played it, maybe give Project IGI a go, one of my faves from the era. I didn't like the sequel much but a ton of people do like it.

That's a nice suggestion. During high school I only played a bit of the second, because I found it on a sale for 5€, and it was difficult as hell (lot of people bash it).

For unknown reasons this comment isn't visible on YT Studio. I mean, wtf.

@@BucolicInsights It do be like that sometimes, no idea why

Now I can see it by sorting Newest in the top right, instead of Top.

I hope it will gain the recognition it deserves one day! About the different endings: I would have liked to see some consequences from the many multiple choices in dialogues, yes, but the choices after the final boss that triggered little differences in the final scene were still a nice addition. Edit: actually there are some consequences! like the dancing teacher from the sol fever disco that will come to Rim Elm if Noa becomes the champion. Well, better then nothing.

I even possess the second but never played it.I bought it at gamestop for 5€ maybe 14 years ago and said "well I'll play the original first, one day" and forgot about it, lmao.

It's a classic not enough praised.

Yeah, the beauty of those backgrounds is undeniable!

@@PaganPilot yeah it would be great, but still I'm waiting for some indie devs to try this.

Yeah the story has some great highlights.

The remake was paused for a long time (the author made it clear it was because the ucranian conflict...) but now it seems to be proceeding with a good pace. Maybe there's a guide to resolve the mouse lagging on windows 11, did you check?

@@BucolicInsights The only solution for mouse lag would be the voodoodg2 but it automatically deleted from my pc once the system detects it. I checked with lower settings run as admin and tried win xp spack 2-3 but the issue is still exist. Other than this the game runs normally but if you are in the menu then the mouse still laggs but slightly better than when I tried last time. I did not tested a battle scene because that actually requires good mouse speed. I checked the only one guide for this issue but as I mentionned it detects as malware and my system will search and remove it. It does even I tried to turn off the defense till I add once I activated it started the witch hunt.

The italian additions are hilarious to hear and some are badly translated. It's much better to hear them in original japanese or english, believe me bro.

Thanks for your comment! I didn't imagine that my henglisch would, actually, be enjoyable to hear, lol. Things like the 50 hidden stardusst, or similars in other games, were an excuse to buy strategy guides or magazines with tips and guides.

A remake with modern graphics would not recreate the charming visuals of those hand painted backgrounds which are beautiful to look at. A remaster with some enhancements (avoiding ugly new poligonal models like they did with Squall in ff8's remaster...) would be enough but then I would suggest to play it with an emulator and apply filters and high resolution. An user, in this comment section, talked about an unofficial remaster that looks very promising. Edit: legendofdragoon.org/projects/severed-chains/

During my teens I used to find many classics for a low price in the italian forums. 10-15 years ago it was very easy and accessible (then suddenly the prices for some games skyrocketed) tho, recently on ebay, I bought some interesting games for cheap such as Breath of Fire 3 (ntsc) from a german seller. The last week I finally could buy Lunar 2 for a decent price from another german guy... Damn I wanted that game for over a decade! Xenogears was the first game I bought online from an italian website specialized on import games. I was very hyped by the fandom. I mean, playing xenogears was very elitarian back then, lol; also because it never arrived in Europe and was known just by few people which talked about it like the ultimate game LMAO. I'm talking about the 2004-2005 but, after some years, almost every jrpg player I knew also played it.

@BucolicInsights Luner 2 another amazing jrpg I remember it came with a cloth map. I lost everything I owned from my past in Hurricane Irean years ago but I did snag a ps1 and a memory card or 2 but with games like suikoden 2 over 400$ just to rich for my blood

Lunar 2 came with lot of things. It was like a collector (just like the first)! Tho the cloth map was included with the first. Lunar 2 has a simple paper map... And a fucking pendant that everyone lose for strange reasons. Luckily my copy is perfect without and signs of wearing. I'm sorry for the hurricane, bro.

Hi, thanks!

Well there's a manga, did you check it?

@@BucolicInsights i knew about that these days everything with a manga gets an anime why not lod

I would be so down with all of that.

@@RemoWilliams1227 me too

Sì, sennò perchè pigliavo in giro lo storico doppiaggio italiano? lol. Nei miei video ci sono ogni tanto riferimenti italiani come la storica rivista Giochi per il mio Computer (che sfoglio in riferimento a come conobbi il gioco recensito in questione), o la "speciale" intro che ho fatto per il video di Spore molti mesi fa.

@@BucolicInsights Si sentiva tanto dalla pronuncia. Comunque per quanto riguarda The Legend of Dragoon, per quanto mi riguarda è un capolavoro assoluto molto di più di altri giochi sopravvalutati d'allora.

ottimo lavoro, ti consiglio se puoi, di far controllare gli script in lingua da qualcuno per correggere qualche errore di sintassi qua e la, continua così!

@@samflood5631 Basically all the main cast! I didn't like much Albert (just didn't click with me) and, infact, due to "that scene" which I only teased and not spoilered (I played a bit ambigous when I showed the concept arts) I even never mentioned him in the whole video, lol. Regarding the story themes, I think the same as you. The themes of death, sacrifice, slavery and the mythology of its game world are very well treated.

Nah, t'was fairly good. Not a masterpiece, not bad.

​@@BucolicInsightsA remake could make it even better.

@@soul71000 I would never hope in such things. The game has a kind of massive number of locations to recreate with modern graphics and the costs would be enormous. FF7 remake is just a unique case and it was teased (starting with the historical ps3 tech demo) for over a decade with a HUGE fanbase demanding it. TLOD never made such numbers.

@@BucolicInsights 7 remake project was done dirty.

voice acting was already commonplace on the PSone and PC by the time LoD came out.

Yeah, just saying: Grandia in 1997 (first on SEGA Saturn) had hundreds of voiced lines in battles and narrative segments.

@@BucolicInsights I’ve always heard of Gandia 1&2, I was given the choice between Grandia 2 or skies of Arcadia via Dreamcast. (Skies also being personal favorite of mine). Having said that I had no idea Grandia had voice acting. Would you think still holds up I am thinking about giving it a go?

@@nerdgoria3811 it's my favourite jrpg. The battle system is something beyond all others (the next games are a bit faster with some elements being simplified but still great), the story is for the most a light hearted adventure (it starts with a very juvenile premise and then become an epic journey beyond the edges of the known world, full of funny and bizarre people of all kinds). The writing is also superlative with long and articulated dialogues and great focus on the characters' relationships and growth. For the most is nothing that serious but the writers put a great effort in making the characters feel alive and believable in the way they speak and interact. The majority of jrpg I've played had for the most simplistic dialogues, but Grandia is much different. For example there are a miriad of sections where they rest and eat, and there are multiple dialogue options with many branches that enrich everything. The graphics vaunt immense full 3d environments with a bit of interactions in both settlements and dungeons, as well fantastic sprite animations. To finish: the soundtrack is a fucking masterpiece (beautifully orchestrated with good sound quality) and the voice acting is ok and not unlisteanable like, well, valkyrie profile. Personally I found VP terrible to listen and had to download a romhack with the japanese dub. Seriously, if you pass over the jeuvenile and light hearted part, it's an immense jrpg that feels a gen beyond its year of release for the immense production values.

Remember FIAMMÀTA.

I started it without knowing anything of the story except "in this old game there are dudes who transform into stilish armored "dragoons" and perhaps they will save the world" (seriously, didn't even know the protagonist name, lol) and, from the bad opinions I always read about, I was expecting some horrible and banal stuff. Instead I found it a nice blend of classic tropes that overally feels like an old adventure anime from the 80's/90's. I didn't have any particular expectations and I liked how the important revelations were gradually built (the 90% is obvious but still liked the execution) and how all the characters' arcs were concluded in the final part that is indeed long. The final CD is not just the final dungeon like some others. Regarding the battles... well, yes, the BS is kinda clunky and a bit slow. Let's say I appreciated the effort in proposing something "different" with the simple QTEs. It pleases me to read differing opinions in the comments, so thx!

The fact is that I'M italian and in the boards I frequented the first thing that came to mind to everyone was "it sounds funny!", especially Haschel that was terrible as hell.

Great video also, really enjoyed it.

Thank you. I, too, really enjoyed playing it.

I can fully understand now why its fanbase is so devoted.

Thanks for the comment bro. Actually, The Legend of Dragoon is a quite renowned JRPG (it's a first party Sony, so just imagine the advertisement back then) and if you do a research you'll find many other retrospectives. Wanna check something more obscure? Look for Koudelka and its successor the Shadow Hearts series (imagine a lovecraftian jrpg with gruesome imagery... at least the original Koudelka and the first shadow hearts can be described this way. Shadow Hearts 2 -a masterpiece!- became more light hearted and the third even more), or Legend of Legaia that I'm actually playing (it's pretty neat)

If you like the 32-bit era games this is a must.

It's well worth it. The dragoon system is incredible

Unluckily this database was cut from the italian version. It would have been fun to hear all these descriptions dubbed (the game was fully localized).

@@BucolicInsights I bought the game from this weird unfriendly toy shop in my old home town that also sold many obscure and weird games and didn't restock often. Hell, this video gave me such a rush of nostalgia I remembered they also had 80's lego in the late 90's when I really had no idea about the value of Lego and how that stuff would appreciate.

@@theothertonydutch actually I don't know by whom and where my copy was bought. Where I live, when I was little, there weren't game shops of any kind (maybe there were playstation games avaible but i got that when I was 13) and most of my PC games came from (pirate) friends and the newstands in which i used to buy, during my teens, magazines that included demos and full versions. I hope you'll find other interesting videos on my channel.

@@BucolicInsights Oh, yeah, for me real game shops only existed in "the city" (which is Groningen, they were called Dimension+, and they also sold figurines and anime, and Nedgame, who would rip you off every time they got a chance). We did get a video rental shop in the late 90's that also rented out games. I think I got XS in 1997 or 1998, two years before I got a PS1. Can't believe it ran on our Pentium 75. I remember my dad scratching his head trying to figure out how to get the sound working. We did in the end, but I was terrible at it. But those character descriptions were cool and I remember reading all of them. That PC had issues but a lot of my core gaming memories are on that. Red Alert, Warcraft 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Powerslave, Syndicate Wars (with the Ghost in the Shell trailers in the background). But we always got those games from friends, or as some kinda shareware. Every game we bought legit for PC was always too new and wouldn't run, which was an expensive lesson, but my older brothers had tech savvy friends who ended hooking us up. We didn't get a new PC until 2001, which was a Windows XP machine. We didn't get internet until 2003, and by that time Half Life 2 was about to come out, but I was using that PC to play a bunch of older games I missed out on. So many memories.