Sickness tricks

So, I said I would tell you the other thing that kept me company while ill, and here it is.

Today's subject is
Dark Cloud

Whenever I'm low on cash, but feel like a game, i'll go over to a local store and pick up some really cheap old PS2 games. This was one such game. It was left to collect dust on my game cabinet for quite some time in the shadow of newer games, but my illness was the best excuse I could find to dig this out of my back catalog. The story of this game is probably the most laughable thing ever and can easily be forgotten, but it's basically about an evil dude who summoned an evil genie who started destroying the world. A magical fairy saved everyone but put them into these little balls that you have to go collect to help rebuild the world, then you are expected to fight the genie. You were selected by the fairy to save the world. I call my character fairy boy every time I play. Immature? Yes. Fun? You fucking bet. 

Anyway, this game is about as classic a dungeon crawler that you're going to get. When you enter your first dungeon you get bombarded by a wave of information. You have weapons, all of which have a breaking point. If your weapon breaks, it is gone forever. The only weapon that doesn't break is your starting weapon, which is always pretty worthless. Your weapons are also able to be upgraded after continued use, and after leveling to a sufficient point they can be broken down and added to other weapons. You also have a thirst gauge while in the dungeon. If your thirst gauge runs out, your health starts to deteriorate. 

Along your travels you develop a team of allies that you can switch to while in the dungeons, but they are all moderately useless and only occasionally shoehorned into the game. 

All in all, I found myself slowly becoming an accountant going over my inventory and weapon building trying to figure out how to max out my stats to increase the speed of my swings as well as their power. It was a great experience, and you can easily lose hours on it. I was informed that I should play Dark Cloud 2 now, as I am told it was much better in the story department.

Can anyone confirm this?

12 comments:

  1. dungeon clawler eh? don't like that genre very much

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  2. Wow I remember playing this, it was a lot of fun way back when.

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  3. I've never played this. I miss a lot of fun...

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  4. old school games are better then some of the newer games that have come out

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  5. this guy looks like a badass post-apocolypse version of Link

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  6. Oldschool and nostalgia, yeah

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  7. Damn, I never got to play this gem. I missed quite a few good games like this.

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  8. how i loved the ps2, way better than both 360 and ps3 imo.

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  9. Wow! I forgot all about this game! I played the hellll out of it! I was OCD about placing my buildings.

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