Dark sky. Controlled smoke creating heavy clouds from left to right on dark background in 4K. Flight Through Clouds Loop. Time lapse of bright cumulus cloud moving fast with a dark cloud in foreground in 4K. Epic Clouds Time Lapse. Smoky Clouds Loop Background. Sun Through The Clouds. Looped Flight Through Clouds. Heavy Lightning Storm Clouds. Storm Clouds And Trees. Dark Stormy Sky Background. Ash of Clouds Animation. What this means is that a fight sequence plays out, with you and a bad guy, while a bar with different button symbols scroll across the screen.
When the symbols slide into the marker bar, you must press the corresponding button in order for the duel to continue and for you to effectively strike your enemy. I found this strange as it's kind of like a movie fight scene with rolling, diving slashing and all sorts of moves you can't normally do in the game, but you can't really watch it either since you're too busy trying to press the right buttons. I was also reminded of certain action scenes in Shenmue and Parappa the Rapper. Still, these sequences do break up the monotony of otherwise mundane dungeon crawling.
Of course, you run into the usual cast of characters who fight alongside you. The half-cat girl, the strange lone warrior, and the goofy robot-looking guy with guns. I have to say I was a bit disappointed in the teammates Toan meets up with; they look and and act like any number of other RPG characters. It's like the programmers have some sort of guideline they can't deviate from.
Sure there was a good female genie, but she sure acted a lot like the other women in recent console RPGs. Wouldn't it be cool if you had to reanimate some poor dead warrior to complete the game and as the game progresses he continually rots and falls apart? I had hoped to see some more originality in Dark Cloud characters. Granted, it's people and monsters and maybe they wanted the monsters to surprise you, but I doubt it since they are all visible on the map.
Either way, the graphics looked good for the most part, albeit a little too simple like a Disney cartoon. SCEA still had the presence of mind to have different lighting effect for the different times of day and if you have a high resolution TV you can pick out little things like Toan's feathers swaying in his cap and the cool lighting effect from the female genie's magic rings.
To me, an RPG has to really push the limit in the graphics dept. What other genre allows programmers to come up with so many varying environments and monsters? Yes, the graphics look good, I had just hoped for better. Strangely, not one character speaks throughout the entire game. You must read everything. Not that I blame Sony -- most games have really bad voice acting. Still, I was expecting a bit more noise coming out of my TV. The environments provided some nice noises as did battle. But nothing really stood out in the audio dept.
I wonder if the additional audio was left out because the game is so large and contained on only one disc. I can't say it would be a good rental since it's so long you probably couldn't finish it over the weekend.
It has a refreshing new take on RPGs with its 'build a town'? However, it does tend to bog down at times and you'll feel like you've done the same thing more than twice, making it a little mundane at points. Browse games Game Portals. Dark Cloud. Install Game. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Topics Dark Cloud , PS2. The game begins as Colonel Flag Gilgister of the Lagoon Empire Army of the East attempts to awaken the Dark Genie , a legendary evil creature, whom Flag wishes to use to control the world.
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