Yes, this is an extended edition to my 3 hour review from last year. This review contains several elements that were cut for time last time around, some more controversial elements that I'm sure I'll regret talking about, some things that have come up since last time, and some things that commenters had brought up that needed to be addressed. I also fixed some minor mistakes and cleaned up the voice over. Was the length necessary? Yes, because I'd rather make a 4 hour review for something I love rather than eleven 20 minute reviews for games I don't care about.

I hate when content creators pad out their videos just to hit that 10 minute mark.

I remember playing this back in grade 8 2003 & was the best experience of my life. Legend of Dragoon is a wild ride & helliva adventure.

My headcanon has always been that young Dart was found by Master Tasman who took him to Seles so the boy would be safe and to train him. This explains how his mentor knew Dart's mission to kill the Monster. If he knew it all along, he would have been able to prepare the boy for the dangerous mission.

I too have that same itch. This game was my introduction to video games (by my dad). We play it once a year together as a tradition. Started at age 4 and I'm turning 25 this May. Wow, how time flies.

I always liked that Albert is one of the few kings in RPGS, that puts himself directly on the front lines. Not much characterization, but that alone makes me really like him.

I realy dont know if i should watch this. It 3 hours i already seen and 30 minutes of new content. Its the legend of dragoon so i am just going to watch it

An extended edition? Don't mind if I do!

I've been playing this game for nearly 20 years and I STILL learned a lot of things from this video. Take my thumbs up, sir. Edit: also nice shirt

Right as I start my second playthrough on my copy that just came in the mail. This time I'm doing everything

You did a fantastic job making this incredibly comprehensive review of the greatest game of all time! Also - I like that sequel plot idea of Soa emerging. Once again, awesome job. Been playing this masterpiece since 2000.

Favorite game ever. Only issues I had with it: 1. Loading time! 2. The power balance is poorly done for human vs dragoon form. As you state, late in the game it’s often much worse to be a dragoon, either an item use option or change back to human would really help, but they should be dealing way more damage in dragoon form. 3. Shanas lack of additions

Fun fact about Shana and her Dragoon Armor. Her armor is very different from Shirley and Miranda's who have similar armors and the same color scheme....but there is a story reason for that. Shana is cheating with her status as the Moon Child to wield the White-Silver Dragoon spirit, which is why her armor is so different and has aqua blue accents for the armor and her wings are aqua blue and sea green. It is also the reason why the White-Silver Dragoon Spirit jumps ship to Miranda so fast, because it never chose Shana, she unconsciously made the spirit work for her with her latent powers

XENOGEARS and Legend of Dragoon needs a remaster

I love legend of dragoon, I loved the original 3 hour review and here I am back again for the 4 hour extended edition. This is truly the ultimate LoD review and everyone should watch this video.

I love legend of dragoon, xenogears, suikoden 1&2 and chrono cross. Ps1 was amazing.

TGX awhile a go a saw on twitter you posted "what is your favorite TGX moment, I need to know i havent wasted 1,000s of hours doing this" My favorite moment is and will always be the next one. Because I can count on you. Youre a friend, and an inspiration Purely because your dedication to the things you love.

This game holds up so well to this day. Even on PS1, even compressed. I really want the toyline. Also picked up the soundtrack after watching this video. This is literally the best comprehensive Legend of Dragoon video on KZfaq.

Remake would be better graphics, same combat system, updated dialog, change of weapons, actual sidequests, 4 or 5 extra villages that may help the optional characters background, 50 item slots

I appreciate you time stamping it so I can watch it episodically. More long form vids should do that. 😁

I wanna make note of something, Which has always made me wounder about the Moon Child, originally the intended soul of the Moon Child was not meant to be Melbu Frahma, but rather Shana. Who is probably the gentlest and mind kind soul in the game. Which makes me wounder if the Moon Child was not necessarily destruction. Our main source of information about the Moon Child is also Melbu Frahma... who is far from reliable. It's possible the Moon Child was meant to judge the world, which could mean destruction, or some kind of enlightenment. Thus the source of the two prophecies , with Melbu and the Winglies actions pretty much making their version of the prophecy a inevitable one. Though it has been a while sense I played the game, so I could be forgetting something. Regardless, it's just a thought that occurs to me based on Shana's personality, I doubt it was the interpretation of the writers. There is an idea of a "Gentle Destroyer" in a lot of Japanese media...

I've been playing this game on and off since its release. I remember the first exposure I had to this game was on a PSX demo disc and it left me completely hooked. I just stumbled across this review because I, too, just got that "itch randomly to play Legend of Dragoon again." Masterpiece, 100%.

This game holds a special place for me as well. I always say this game turned from a casual young gamer into a hardcore gamer-for-life. I still go back every other year or so and play it again (probably at about 8-10 playthroughs at this point including earlier this year). I love almost everything about it and was my all time favorite game for a long time (only got passed up in the last couple years by Witcher 3). I live in a smallish town in a rural county. My younger brother and I discovered this game as a demo at Walmart in 2000 and I instantly fell in love with it. Got it that Christmas and became a life-long fan. The only downside was my brother and I were essentially the only ones in town who knew of the game. And for the longest time, I knew practically no other fans of the game. It's been nice to find other die-hard fans through videos like this, talking about their love for this game, warts and all. (Seriously though, I find it's quirky dialogue endearing but that 32 item limit can go straight to hell. That's my #1 fix for a remake.) This video perfectly encapsulated why I love this game. Thanks for making. I enjoyed it.

When Lavitiz died it hit me far harder than when Aerth died.

So to start, very good video! Well worth the watch! There are a couple items I want to address. You're not the first to not know how to pronounce Mille Seseau. While "seseau" is not a real French word, it follows French spelling rules and "mille" means "1000," so chances are it's "Meal Sess-oh." "Eau" means water, but it's probably coincidental since unless their intent was to call it "Thousand Their Water" and pronounce it "Meal Say-zoh." It would be a slop translation at best. Rose's Additions and weaponry are a little less innuendo-driven than her animations. People generally accept that she uses "fencing swords," but this isn't strictly true. Her weaponry, including the Demon Stiletto, are best recognized as mostly daggers and shortswords, except the Flamberge, which is a 2-handed sword, but far from the only "flame blade" or wavy blade in general worldwide, with others including a perhaps more appropriate kris. A stiletto is a hard, short blade that's neither a dagger nor knife, more like a nail with a handle, that was used for a coup de grace, or basically a mercy killing of a fallen knight by stabbing him in the eye through his helmet visor. Whip Smack, in keeping with her actual weapon model, and Hard Blade after, is most likely in reference to Chinese hard whips, which are more or less batons that use ridges or spheres for additional striking and blocking power. They're a totally awesome weapon that are criminally underrepresented in media, often adorned with dragon heads where the handle connects to the business end, which is totally appropriate for the game as well. While some of this may fall to translation for what her weapon qualifies as, the intent is to convey that she's using her weaponry as a striking weapon for that hit, even though her technique otherwise does focus heavily on piercing. That's all I've got, really. I never thought I'd sit through a darn near 4-hour video, but this was totally worth it!

So, I watched your original about a year ago. And then I saw this one pop up on the field because I haven’t watched one of your videos in a while. And I listen to the entire thing again, it was just as awesome as I remember. It took me a day or so as I listen to it in between drives. But it was really really amazing to have a unseen and on physical connection with someone who care just as deeply about a game that I care about. Honestly this game created not only my childhood bye my expectations for a future games with stories. And weird way this game kind of jaded me. I was so damn good, only Skyrim has even come remotely close to living up to how much fun iVe had. And I think my favorite part, is when you touched on the end, where the glass was on the desk next to Lavitz Portrait. I actually didn’t know that. It did not click in my brain. I have been in this game at least 20 times in my life, maybe more and I’ve been playing literally since it’s launch week. And I never do that, as soon as I heard you say that to be honest I cried a little bit and I had to pull over. Just so damn sweet, and spent so long not knowing such an amazing fact about my favorite game. So not only am I acting like a fruitcake about some bond with another human being I’ve never met, I just overly admired the amount of time you put into this, how it was very tasteful and the right amount of comedy with used. Sometimes it can be over done, that’s why I hate Marvel movies. So I want to say thank you, for making this, as it almost feels like he made it for me. I also want to congratulate you on how good and touching it was, and how hard you work. And I also want to say, please make more. Eh what the hell, we should totally hang. JK? We can listen to metal(I think blind guardian /boltthrower/ Sonata Arctica go well with this game) all day and play

I hope they do a remaster that would be amazing that way everyone can fall in love with this game and it can finally get the love it deserves

I just wanna hear Albert talking to Lloyd in the throne room about plans for the civil war and Lloyd's just spouting off some stuff about how Doel has a power that has the ability to sway the tides of war and change the course of history (talking about his Dragoon spirit) and Albert just kinda goes "I like your funny words, magic man"

The legend of dragoon has a very special place in my heart, no matter how many games I play with stories and characters I fall in love with this one never gets knocked out of my top 5. it has its flaws, but this story and these characters are timeless to me.

my favorite game of all time! you definitely did it justice. never in a million years would i sit through a three hour youtube vid but today thats changed, you did amazing TGX!!

I will always cherish this game as it was the first game I really fell in love with when I was in Jr high early 2000s. As I've grown older, I have only continued to appreciate the story of this game more and more. I love this story, as it flows from simply rescuing your close friend, to fighting in a war, and escalates all the way to stopping the end of the world. And while end of the world scenarios have been done a hundred times over, this games story has a uniqueness to it in its art style and world building that really make it stand out to me.

This guy gives me the impression that if we grew up together as friends we’d be those two kids not playing with the others at recess, but would he pretending to be Dart and Lloyd squaring off in a battle 😢🙏🏾

This is the game that make more impact in me, my favourite ever, i have pass it 8 times, and i want to play it again.

Good job! Appreciate the time stamps as well, 11/10, have watched both of these!

This game had no business having a soundtrack as good as it was but none of us fans are complaining. Battle soundtrack #2, Boss theme #2, “Reminiscence,” Forbidden Land Battle theme and the Major boss theme are my favorites 🙏🏾

I 100 percent agree that a good way to remake LOD would be to do a combo game where you play as BOTH the current dragoons and the Dragon campaign dragoons. Being a HUGE fan of Legacy of Kain soul reaver, I would love for the quest lines to start very disconnected and for you to not even understand that you are playing in two different timelines. I always believed with a talented and creative writing staff you could make a double timeline game out of LOD be just as satisfying, if not more satisfying than the double timeline story telling of LoK SR

About the housewife thing... Anyone who thinks being a housewife or being a "good housewife" is a bad thing, has obviously never been a housewife. Do you have any clue how hard that job is? It's not for the weak that's for sure. It's not for the dumb either. Here's a short list of just SOME of the things my wife does while I'm working 55-60 hours a week. Kids. All day. Hope I don't have to expand on that, it's self explanatory. Cleaning. Bills Shopping Organizing Budgeting Planning Cooking Meal plan Kids. I say it again cuz it's really an all day ordeal. Cleaning. I say it again because once again, with kids, it's an all day ordeal Snow removal Home repair. Sinks, water heater, stuff that can be done that are on the smaller side Appointments I know I'm forgetting at least a dozen more things. But this list doesn't even include her own basic needs. And before y'all get bent out of shape. Yes, of course I help her. If I'm not at work, I'm doing one or more of the things listed. My only point, is that housewife is not some pity job given to the weak or useless or something. It's seriously exhausting, and I could not do it. I could tryz and I have, but what my wife does is absolutely amazing and inspiring

Love might not be some all powerful thing that you can see in this universe and dimension. When we die we will see what love truly is.

You say that by not using magic you’ll have more fun as of that’s a fact that everyone enjoys this game the same. I personally love stomping enemies into nothing with overpowered magic while seeing insane damage numbers pop up while still having tons of time to perfect and use additions so that may be rather presumptuous of you.

‘You are free to sever the chains of fate that bind you… ‘ Made that my senior quote Back in the day.

You did an excellent job! I enjoyed all of the details and I laughed at your humor throughout! Thank you

3 years later on this video, I always feel that urge to play. It's a game I can ALWAYS pick up and play. I've always ran through, never seen how beautiful it is.

Shana/Miranda give her therapy ring and she heals herself. I built my team around Dart, Rose, and Shana where additions are still the main part of my game play. I think it's because I like having a pure healer on my team. I really don't see how Shana/Miranda dies for you so quickly when for me AL and the old man always die while Shana/Miranda rarely dies.

LoD was a masterpiece, and you good sir have made an equally masterful retrospective. Bravo 👏 👏

Damn, that's commitment. Probably won't have the time to watch this one any time soon, but I'll definitely get around to it.

When I play an MMoRPG. I replace the sound track to Legend of Dragoons.

Loved the video, you earned yourself a subscriber man. I can feel the heart in this.

Honestly this is such a comprehensive look at every aspect that made LoD amazing and the things that held it back. This was a great insight.

Necessity is the mother of invention. A world with magic would either only need technology to fill roles that the magic can't be used for or to make up for some kind of scarcity of magic.

Thank you for making this. It's a beautiful love letter to a beautiful game. The effort and sheer amount of content you put into this is stunning. I'm not sure why I hadn't come across your channel until now and while I can't imagine you put anything close to this amount of effort into all your reviews, it'd be criminal not to subscribe to something this good. Thank you.

Hey @TGX Game Reviews, just wanted to give you a tid bit of info that might be interest!! In Donau there is a bar, and in it a Minintos ACTUALLY hints at the Golden Dragoon spirit in Lohan. He asks if you bought your “shiny stones” in Lohan. Talk a second time and he downright says he saw one at a stand in Lohan. Just figured you’d like to know! Great video, great game.

I'ma few minutes in and considering you're not a big jrpg fan and you made a 3 hr 44 min video on my favorite jrpg I can tell you love it I'm gonna sit here and watch this and just know I'm super excited to see your take cause I truly love this game

Great video man ! The 2:33:09 Popo think killed me ! :D

The moon that never sets, is setting down, on earth. I just got that.

50:48 small unsolicited correction. The city of Troy definitely existed. It WAS lost to time and considered to be completely legendary, but it was actually found and excavated starting in the 1870s

Lavitz death matched Mufasa's death for me on the scale of childhood trauma in entertainment XD

Y'know I kind of find this funny and Ironic , because alot of Japanese E.g Atlus when they port a game , they tend to enhance it with new Mechanics and Story arcs while fixing flaws of the Original game and it seems you've done that right here with your Magnum-Opus Video !

To be fair to Meru, she can attack 3-4 times in 1 turn at higher levels because her speed is fucking broken, so that 600 damage is potentially tripled. Not to mention being able to use magic items, or healing potions on one of those turns and she becomes insane.

NOBODY does per-rendered backgrounds like this game; I mean the water is BREATHTAKING 💝

Once again absolutely fantastic. I'm going to retread a bit on my comment from your previous version of the review and talk about how you and I have virtually the same passion for our respective games. For me, I feel almost exactly as you do with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The story, characters, graphics, music, gameplay, all the fidelity and finesse is there for me to enjoy. It's a game I love playing to 100% completion, going throughout every nook and cranny in Dracula's Castle and getting all the items and leveling up Alucard. The level of detail in the story, animations, graphics, etc always never cease to amaze me, and the intro even engages me every single time. Now compared to The Legend of Dragoon, Symphony I don't believe has nearly anywhere near as much depth as it obviously, BUT I still have the same love and passion for that game as you do with this. Every now and again I have an itch to play it from start to finish and still love it no matter how many times I play it. It's something I NEVER get tired of. And just like you, every time I read up on the game or play it once more, I'm always discovering new things whether it be items, details in the environment, and so on. The song that you had playing during your epilogue of the review even reminded me of "I Am the Wind" a little bit. Both games definitely have biblical themes tied to them, I mean Castlevania is all about demons and good versus evil so that's more of a no brainer. Bottom line, both have a strong passionate fanbase behind them and both were clearly made with care and love from their respective developers. Throughout watching this review, I started to feel an itch to finally try out The Legend of Dragoon. I am not a fan of RPG, especially JRPGs whatsoever, unless you count Pokemon, but I am intrigued enough to play this once and for all. Plus owning a four disc game would go great with my PS1 collection. You've outdone yourself again, keep up the good content, you are one of the only good youtubers left that seems to give a shit about what they provide and not consumed by the drama around them. God bless you, and your channel!

This video was so good I will remember this until the day I die. Thank you for appreciating the game for what it was really meant to be. Best game that was ever made, it is one of my top 2 favorites (along with Breath of Fire III), and I also still own the game case with all 4 discs inside ever since I had bought it. I do desperately hope for a remake. As long as it is not destroyed in the process like the fvii. Such a shame…. Thank you for letting me watch your video.

The ending always makes me tear up even just hearing the song

To this day and possibly forever this will be my favorite game of all time

I don't know if anyone has told you, but about the dragoon attack wheel, you got to tap x right before it hits the line to get the perfect bro.

Came here looking to find real opinions on my favorite game of all time. And I gotta say, you definitely earned a like man. Really helped me through my shift, and brought a few watery eye moments with the nostalgia. Legend of Dragoon is truly a special game to me, and every time I play it my love grows. I don’t want much, just something in the land of Endiness. And GOD do I miss that website 🤣🤣 So many middle school hours lost on that site. Rewatching FMVs, watching addition and Dragoon videos. Good times

I always assumed that Mille Seseau's name was pronounced "Meel Say-So"

3:13:15 I believe that the seventh seal could be interpreted as Moot, which was created by Savan to seal the God of Destruction's body, like the Signet Spheres. Thanks for the video! Really enjoyed it and love seeing someone still playing this game today.

Hello, i have some redesigns that i was working on for the legend of dragoon sequel as a fan of the game.I honestly feel the same way that you do about the game and as im an artist i always think about drawing the characters for a sequel.Do you know where i can share my fan artwork with ppl that shares the same love for this game?

Not a days goes by, I miss this game and wish for official comeback. I don't cry myself to sleep about it. Kinda.

The only way to support and a remake of this master piece is buy it in the PlayStation store and give it 5 stars. I did it already right now game got 5024 votes and a score of a full max five stars. Its one of the best rating game if not the best. I pray for a huge remake for a game that cant be forgot.

This was an awesome review vid

i just finished the 3 hour review that was posted last year then saw this just now lol this is the longest and most satisfying review so far

What's next? The Definitive Edition? If so, share your thoughts on the PAL and JP versions of Legend of Dragoon, if you have played those.

I also know a girl named Shana pronounced Shay-na. I'm also gonna start calling dart Dah-ert now thanks to you lmao.

Thanks for the pronunciation portion. My friends and I used to debate before voice acting happened all names in games

To this day, this is still my favorite game of all time. Fun fact, first time I beat the game I used Kongol and Rose and the final boss took me almost an hour to beat haha.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for this video. It, too has made me want to boot up LOD again on my PS5. I still remember how hype I was when we defeated Lloyd for good for the first time. I was so excited thinking not only would we get to then use the Divine Dragon Spirit, but also be able to experience Lloyd as a playable character in the party. 😩 It was still cool to see Dart use it though after the Fire Spirit returned to his father towards the end of the game. Also couldn’t agree more with how well this soundtrack was composed. The forbidden battle theme, #2 boss theme, and the major boss theme were hands down my favorite of all though. And Lloyd’s theme.

for what it's worth I've always pronounced 'Lavitz' like... Lenny Kravitz, which is probably why I pronounce it that way. Same kind of A as in Dragoon.

It would have been amazing if you had an addition menu in combat so you could select the one you want and that each addition had a type of advantage to use, for example element type, recharges mp etc. Btw Shana/Miranda’s dragoon was OP with ring that restored MP

I WAS LOOKING FOR MORE OF THIS! I WILL PLAY AGAIN!

Didn't you once use Shana screaming from being electrocuted as a ringtone or is my memory wrong?

Me: looks at 4 hour runtime. "I've seen this twice. Why have I seen this twice?" Me: hits play again

thank you for this amazing video loved this game!

This is also my favorite game. I hope we get a remaster soon. I still have my ps1 discs, but it would be nice to play it without getting out my ps2. Such a perfect game.

Hearing you Meru's name is like listening to a voice actor from back in the day. Like they would pronunce Aoi like owwie

I am finished dozens of jrpg but this one is ONLY ONE that I finished TWICE. I have a friend who finished it... 5 or 7(?) times.

There's certain cheats you can use to remove party members btw. I did a play through of level 1 dragoon and level 5 additions with just Dart and Lavitz in the party

you made me a subscriber love this vid

You: *Talking about how tough the final addition is to use* Me: *Laughs in Ultimate Wargod* You can buy the Ultimate Wargod and it's more fun to battle a crap ton to get the money for it and gain Dragoon levels

This was a wonderful video Legend of Dragoon is one of my favorite games of all time. I beat Legend of Dragoon twice now my favorite Team to use is Kongol and Albert. It will probably be my yearly replay game

You did this game justice in this review. Best LoD video on KZfaq

Thank you for this! I remember playing this game from ages 10 to 15.

Just settling in for my annual replay of the game myself. The part about the itch needing scratched part really hit home. Gotta get my fix.

This is your best video to date. Hope you come back someday over the rainbow. Take care amigo.

Talented over 3 hours content enough said don’t know any other video over 3 hours that’s fantastic

Played it when it first came out on PS1 and even on PS5 I’m currently playing it again. Easily my favorite game ever🖤 an up to date remake would be a god send that would bring me eternal happiness

I need to scramble for my ps2 controller+adapter so I can fetch an emulator online and replay this game only to revisit the Praire shack! I loved this video

I love how you came to your "optimal" team and it's Albert, Dart and Haschel. This is the team composition I have ALWAYS used. But I also grind out max lvl and max dragoon lvl. Small tip on the final boss, if you use your Special Dragoon transformation right off the bat, you usually get most of your turns before he nerfs dragons. Maybe have one turn left on all characters. I can usually get through P1 and P2 pretty easily and then smash additions after that. Easy peasy.

Additions are just fun and satysfying defo the thing that sold me on the game oh and Rose is badass

LoD was a made by a first-party Sony studio. There's no way they didn't have access to a PS2 dev kit a year or two prior to the PS2's release. LoD released on PS1 just 3 months before the PS2 released. They could have made the whole game ready as an epic JRPG launch title for the PS2, making it a flagship IP for the new system, instead of the swansong for the previous generation. This misstep with my favorite game's production was the key that held it back. It could have been so much more. Less compression, better graphical fidelity, faster load times, and more. But mostly, I think it would have lead to SEQUELS and been an actual contender to Final Fantasy (not an FF killer, but definitely contender) instead of just a cult favorite game. This game is so good that it makes me angry that the studio didn't make it a launch for the PS2 and that we've just had bad ports of the game since its release instead of an actual remaster or a sequel.