THE LEGEND OF DRAGOON! - A Personal Retrospective - Tarks Gauntlet

My favorite JRPG of all time, and one of the most important gaming experiences of my life.

The Legend of Dragoon is a 1st party JRPG for the Sony Playstation 1, created by Japan Studio at the height of the JRPG era following the success of Final Fantasy VII. Though it didn't live up to the Final Fantasy or Dragonquest games of the day it garnered a small yet dedicated cult following that kept the game alive in their hearts for the last 20 years.

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Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
03:03 - Development
09:22 - Story, World, Characters, Writing
19:43 - Combat
30:38 - Dungeons and Side Content
37:42 - Localization and Regional Differences
40:06 - Technical Aspects, Art, Music
45:21 - My history with Legend of Dragoon
56:05 - What happened to The Legend of Dragoon?

Sources:
ABC News,
Davidbabich.com
thegamer.com/the-legend-of-dragoon-interview-albert-melbu-voice-actor/
Dennis Martin (Twitter)
Elsa Raven/Cornish (Reverb Nation, Twitter)
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/annan/e/c6eed6...
Trendandchaos.com
r/legendofdragoon (Reddit)
Thevegetariancat.blogspot.com
Thelegendofdragoon.fandom.com
https://www.q-gin.info/legend-of-drag...
Q-gin.info
tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Dragoon
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/per...
Playstation Underground Volume 4.1 (Magazine)
classic.rpgfan.com/news/1999/691.html*
https://vgkami.com/the-legend-of-drag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeo_M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leg...
Playstation Club Volume 2
VGChartz
CG World Magazine - The Making of Game Graphics 1999-2001
(Article, Images and information dumped by Drew of
legendofdragoon.org)

*Contains dead links. Information alleged to exist
here was found referenced elsewhere.

Special mention as well to the following google drive built and maintained by the fine folks at Legendofdragoon.org, which contains raw dumps of many of the games assets, documents of unused content, community projects, videos, game data files and tons of magazine scans that came in incredible handy when it turned out wikipedias sourced links were mostly dead and
couldn’t be used for proper research. (Yes, a lot of research starts at wikipedia.)

THANK YOU!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...