 "great game" | 2009-05-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3V0VE8K0JHM4F |
| Rygar is simply put a great game and it steps up to the plate on most fronts. Its not a game someones is going to consider the best in its genre but for what it is it stands its ground. Good sound, good graphics and good gameplay make for a nice mix of things. It is a short lived adventure so I recommend you play through a few times. |
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 "save your money" | 2008-06-07 |
| - Reviewed By imnainoa |
this game is horrible. even the cheesiest voice acting from resident evil one was at least amusing. this makes me want to punch someone in the face.
i feel like i was robed, and am glad that i bought it used. i really liked the old one, but this new one has firmly peed on its grave. |
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 "A joke?" | 2008-04-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: APXBGPSKD2KUR |
Sometimes I wonder about video game reviews. This is definitely one of those times. Maybe it's just me, but this game was horrible. People say it was fun, it was cool, and it looked great. And it might have been all those things....but it wasn't enjoyable. In fact, it was hardly understandable. There was very little story to the actual game, and when it does rear it's ugly head, it's only strength is the graphics. The story is presented in such a way that every scene seems to be intentionally ambiguous, to the point where you begin to wonder if there's a large section of the game you may have missed where they actually explain the story rather than present more questions. No explanations are given for anything, short of 'there's a princess that needs saving and you're stuck with the job'. The voice acting is just horrible, and the game play isn't even all that fun.
Much like the popular Onimusha series, this game features customizable weapons, the Diskarmors, each with different magical abilities and elemental alignments. There's even an optional dungeon nearly identical to Onimusha's Dark Realm, but I'd discovered it by accident, and found no reason to actually go through it. I beat the game within four days with no difficulty, and even after beating it I still didn't understand what was going on.
If you're that drawn in to playing the game, look it up on Youtube or borrow it from a friend if you can first. Don't be fooled by reviews...this game is hardly worth the $8 I paid for it. |
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 "Good but God of War is Great" | 2008-01-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1I1KB72INWGIY |
This is a great game and should be purchased if you love Greco/Roman storylines. The price on Amazon is a rip off though. You can find the game on the gamequestdirect website for about $18.99.
The storyline is very generic and fraught with poor voice acting and misspelled subtitles. For $18.99 it's a steal, for $49.99 it's a pass.
Hope this helps.
Swany |
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| "Average game, can not compete with recent titles." | 2006-03-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3NPH3KRL4I3R1 |
| A fun game, based on a number of Greek and Roman mythologies, however, it shows it age from the start. The gameplay is too slow, the developers needed to add a run feature of some sort. I found myself jumping or sliding to get from A to B. The story was near impossible to follow along with if you just played the game and watched the cut scenes. At times I had no idea why I was doing what I was doing! Having a decent knowledge of the Greek and Roman myths, I found the many liberties the designers took at changing the stories laughable and confusing! If you went into every scroll you picked up and read them, it helped, but that's just lazy game design. The boss battles, while at times difficult, always could be figured out after a few attempts. All boss encounters were done on a pattern, and once you realized the pattern it was just a matter of grinding out the victory. There is a 50 level dungeon battle that is optional to the completion of the game, and while fun, it is not for the average gamer. The designers throw enemies at you on each level, with the random treasure thrown in on certain levels. In all, Rygar is an average game, worth spending a few hours on to finish, but I would recommend buying it used, it's not worth a full retail price. If you are looking for a great mythology action game, go with God of War. |
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| "Stunning potential not used to its highest level" | 2005-09-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A139PGPHA59LJ0 |
Rygar the Legendary Adventure is a very fun game with beautiful graphics and a vast variety of attacks, but unfortunately, those are the only real positives. First of all, the game is just way too short. It can take under four hours to beat it. Because of that some of the adventure elements don't really fit in. You have to play the game four times in order to get all the mystic stones, which isn't really worth it considering that more than half of them are useless, and that it really isn't as fun to play the game four times as the designers hoped it would have been, despite the different difficulty levels in each replay. Among other problems with Rygar, one is that the story and voices are just awful. Of course not every game takes itself seriously when it comes to story, but the atrocities in this one are just too much. What's also lame is that from the middle of the game on most of the environments look more or less the same. You're always around some red or brown, hot mountain, lava field, or something else reddish or brownish. The final area was also way too short and pathetic, and aside from the bosses, there are only a few kinds of enemies, most which are smaller than you are.
Numerous things could have increased the value of this game. First, they just should have made it a lot longer, preferably at least within the 8-10 hour range keeping the difficulty around the game's "HARD" level. This would have allowed for a greater variety of environments and enemies, and it would have left room for all the mystic stones to be in. Many of the mystic stones also should have done cooler things than what they did. There actually is an interesting back story to the game if you read some of the texts you pick up, but the current story is executed just too poorly to accept even for a game you know won't take itself seriously. The presentation could have used vast improvement. In short, Rygar the Legendary Adventure is a disappointment because it had stunning potential that just didn't have its best brought out. Lack of ambition most likely held it back. The negatives outweigh the positives enough for me to only be able to recommend it as a rental. Hopefully the tentative sequel, if made, will be better.
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