Legend of Legaia

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Legend of Legaia  is a 1998 Sony PlayStation role-playing video game created by Contrail. The game was followed by a 2001 sequel video game, Legaia 2: Duel Saga for the PlayStation 2 which, rather than continuing the first game's storyline, provides an original story set in the eponymous Legaia.

 

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The game takes place in a world called Legaia, populated by humans and objects called Seru, which can join with humans to grant them fantastic powers. While humans and Seru had once peacefully coexisted, about ten years before the game begins the world was covered in a mist which drove Seru mad when it came in contact with them. Seru were transformed into monsters that attacked humans, and human civilization nearly collapsed. At the time the game begins, human survivors have banded together in remote regions to hide from the mist.

 

The game follows Vahn, the quiet main hero; Noa, an excitable feral child; and Gala, a curt warrior monk, on their quest to revive ten Genesis Trees throughout Legaia in an attempt to vanquish the evil Mist which covers the world. The three heroes join with entities known as Ra-Seru, which grant them powers like Seru but are immune to the effects of the Mist. They travel across three continents, reviving Genesis Trees that push back the Mist over small areas, and destroying the Mist Generators that create it; at times they come into conflict with Songi, Gala's childhood rival, who has joined with a Seru and is progressively mutating into a monster.

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I haven't been playing this game for very long but I'm already in love with it and I'm totally absorbed in the story. The battle system is interesting in that you decide how the characters attack using the D-pad. If you press right, the character will punch with their right hand or if you press down, they'll do a low kick, etc. Also, if you input attacks in a certain order the characters will do a special attack that will do greater damage than a normal attack. Of course since this is a fantasy game, they can also use magic but only if their Ra-Seru has absorbed a Seru in battle. I also like that during battle the characters are wearing what you have equipped them with. Usually in RPGs at the time only the weapon changed when you equipped them with one, but in this game both the weapons and the armor, including body, leg, and head armor, is shown on the character during battle. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes JRPGs.

 

Here's a game play video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gWoy_ZLC2E

 

If you want to learn more about Legend of Legaia, visit this site: http://www.legendoflegaia.net/index.html

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