Rygar: The Legendary Adventure (Playstation 2)

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure for the PlayStation 2 is a remake of the classic Nintendo game Rygar, where you play a Roman warrior who must go around killing random creatures while trying to save a princess. The basic plot of the game is a pretty standard fill in the blanks kind of story, but it does include some nicely rendered CGI cutscenes in between game levels. For the most part, Rygar is an action game, but there is a little bit of puzzle solving involved. However, it would be a stretch to call it puzzle solving when it really just involves you looking for places to jump onto, as...

I'll admit, Rygar is one of the few classic NES games that slipped by me in my youth. As such, I wasn't foaming at the mouth when the PS2 remake was announced. Nevertheless, being a sucker for Roman history and good games in general, I decided to check out Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, in the hopes that Tecmo was kinder to its classic franchises than are companies like Midway, for example. What awaited me was a fun game. That is, while it lasted. Rygar: The Legendary Adventure takes place immediately after the Roman conquest of Egypt in the 1st century B.C. A Roman warrior named Rygar ...

INTRO, or WHAT THE HISTORY BOOKS DIDN'T TELL YOU Usually I try to start these reviews out with some sort of humorous anecdote surrounding the renting or purchasing of whichever video game I'm reviewing, but in the case of Rygar it was just pure desire to not study for finals. I would have just as happily grabbed the new Harry Potter game or Mario Party 23 if it would have ensured that I didn't crack a book. So instead of learning I spent a weekend emmersed in some sort of strange Greek/Roman mythological history game that, for all it's whistles and bells, only slightly beat out studying. In...

This is a great game in so many ways. I loved Rygar on the old Ninetendo. If you love a game that has combo moves this is a must have. Some of the people I talked to at Game Stop and EB World, had a difficult time with the camera angles, and told me that they would not play the game. It takes some getting use to the camera angles for this game. For starters, when you leave one room to go into the next room the way the camera is positioned, you will end up back in the room you just left. I did find a trick that does work when that happens you need to let go of the thumb stick and then wait...