Rygar: The Legendary Adventure

"Good old killin', old fashion way!!"

Everybody, welcome back the greatest arcade game of all time also a wonderful NES game on a next-gen console and it is absolutely great. Tecmo finally did something worth spending your money on.

Gameplay: 10/10

The killing part is absolutely wonderful, especially if you're a very destructive person. You can pretty much destroy everything there is!! Even better than that, you have no choice, you NEED to destroy the map to find everything. A lot of different combos, 3 totally different diskarmors with their unique moves each, even summon RPG style to do your devastating cleaning up work. There is a minor weak point though, which some people have seen, there are slowdowns during the game. But you get easily over it.The strong point of this game.

Story: 8/10

Very cliche story, even ridiculous at time, but it stills doesn't get annoying. In this fictional tale, you are the good guy, a fighter for the island of Argus, the hero of many war and battles, an ex-gladiator who needs to secure the princess from the hands of the bad guys, the titans.

Graphic: 8/10

Graphically, this game is excellent. It takes advantage of all the PS2 hardware there is available presently and makes a wonderful world for your character to destroy in!The water is especially well done. The visuals effects during the bosses are marvelous, blasting you with a lot of special moves. If only, they would have worked more with the camera, which can be costly at times, always changing the point of view, this would have gotten a 10 easily.

Sound: 10/10

You can almost hear their breathing. Absolutely no problem in this category.You hear every bit of the monster blowing up, the movement of your diskarmor, your footsteps, the wind and the nature. The music puts you in a killing mood at every opportunity. Another strong point in this game.

Replayability: 9/10

3 different difficulty levels which will have you swearing a lot at legendary, a very long and dangerous side quest cave which you need to explore to get everything in the game, special items gotten after completion, you will want to play this game more than once and finish every bit of it.

Buy or rent?: Buy

This game is definitely a buy, even if usually you are not an action game fan, this game deserves to be on every game pile of all the PS2 owners in this world.

Finally, this game won't get the success it deserves, but still, go buy this game at once, it's easily worth your 50$.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 12/28/02, Updated 12/28/02