Game:

The Legend of Dragoon (1999)

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Let's Play

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Originally Recorded/Aired on January 27th, 2024

You're looking here at our very first improv Preview Program here on #SuperOldGameSaturday, which actually occurred for reasons that are clear if you saw Part 7 of our play of Lunar Silver Star Story Complete (it's in the Link List below). Due to that, Proterova decided to give a bit of a first look to Nocturne, myself and all of you of 2000's The Legend of Dragoon from Sony's Japan Studio for the PlayStation. If he hadn't chose Lunar as the RPG he'd have played for this channel, he'd have played this darker, underrated and underappreciated 32-bit RPG for us that tells the story of Dart, a young man who returns from a long journey to find his hometown destroyed and his childhood friend Shana kidnapped. With a war going on in the land due to a broken truce, Dart sets off for revenge and rescue, while also finding assistance from a trusting, yet trustworthy and honor-bound knight named Lavitz. As we do with our Preview Programs, this is a bit of a taste of a game we haven't played yet that's brought to you in a dedicated show, as Proterova played the first 3 1/2 hours of this favorite of his by memory (again, you'll understand why if you saw Part 7 of Lunar) and went into his memories of this one as we all soaked in the atmosphere, characterizations, scope, tone and unique battle system in this game. As far as when we'll be able to do a full play of this, it'll be a ways down the road, but for now, we're giving this game its early due as Nocturne saw this for the first time and I saw even more of it than I've played (which I own on PS3 after Proterova's rave of it and it's also now on PS4 and PS5, if you like what you'll see here). We had a fun time giving you a little taste of The Legend of Dragoon in this impromptu Preview Program and we hope you enjoy it (and if you like what you see, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week and also, to see the schedule for our next show, which will be this Friday, February 2nd at 7 PM EST)!

Also, here's the Link List, with links to everything we & chat referenced on this show:

A link to Part 7 of our play of Lunar Silver Star Story Complete, which explains why this Preview Program exists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_1kIWybHG0

A link to our playlist contain this and all of our other Preview Program shows:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y8FPTURLeHtfhzrLOkvTmge

A link to our play of Shadow Hearts for PlayStation 2:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y9Lb2ddYnLjf0mNRNLK5WjB

A link to our play of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for Super Nintendo:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y9SDg25pIWl7DZNCSN4ofNN

A link describing information about and origins of the acronym NEET, or "Not in Education, Employment, or Training", courtesy of Wikipedia.org:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET

A link to a PDF of the beautiful instruction manual for The Legend of Dragoon, courtesy of GamesDatabase.org:

https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Sony_Playstation//Manual/formated/The_Legend_of_Dragoon_-_2000_-_Sony_Computer_Entertainment.pdf

A link to SpeedRun.com's page for speed runs of The Legend of Dragoon (namely, of Any % runs, as they have none currently recorded for 100% plays), courtesy of SpeedRun.com:

https://www.speedrun.com/the_legend_of_dragoon?h=Any-Legit&x=vdoyn8y2-kn0vrpzl.013n74xq

A link to the only 100% speed run of The Legend of Dragoon that I could find online (which was done in 2021), courtesy of Alpha Zero on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8DUvS8kOVSotFcm3Wnm0eartSYrYNMD8

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