Despite appearing to lean on many of its generic siblings for influence, and in particular Devil May Cry in the … Please try again. (It's not too hard to avoid, though.Rygar: the legendary adventure review Sony Playstation 2 (PS2) > R > Rygar: The Legendary Adventure.
Stalked by the Bell: In the arcade version, an ominous red monster will swoop at you once the timer runs out. It also has three unexplained spells you can cast with your MIND gauge: Power Up, which speeds up and lengthens the Diskarmor's chain Attack & Assail, a Smart Bomb worth ten Diskarmor hits and Recover, which replenishes your health. TONE refers to the Diskarmor's power level, and each time you accrue 48 LAST, you gain an extra hit point to a maximum of twelve. Rygar's status screen has two stats known as "TONE" and "LAST" that go up as you kill enemies. RPG Elements: The NES game has some which are presented pretty cryptically. Rygar: the legendary adventure ps2#
No Celebrities Were Harmed: The princess in the PS2 game is unmistakably modeled after Britney Spears. No Name Given: In the Japanese version, the hero is only referred to as "The Legendary Warrior". Nintendo Hard: There used to be an actual YouTube video titled something like "Rygar gameovers", which basically had a playthrough with a long list of deaths, from falling into a pit on the worldmap to getting killed one way or another. The 3D game gives different varieties of Diskarmor which have different attack patterns, from carving slow, broad arcs through the air to clinging very close to Rygar's hand to cause quick combo damage. Killer Yo-Yo: The Diskarmor is a genuine weapon form of this, effectively being a shield at the end of a chain. 
Bizarrely, the English version does not change the villain's name, meaning it has both a "Rygar" and a "Ligar". Japanese Ranguage: The English version names both the game and the protagonist "Rygar" (he is nameless in Japan), which is one way of reading the villain's name in the Japanese version, the other being "Ligar".Beware as you progress through the game, Death moves increasingly faster.
Invincible Minor Minion: Death is the indestructible being that comes after you when your timer runs out. Improbable Weapon User: The Legendary Warrior's Diskarmor, which is replaced in successive playthroughs of The Legendary Adventures with various types of pizza or guitars, respectively called "pizzarmors" and "guitarmors". In the ending, it's revealed he will live on with Princess Harmonia as Caesarion. Once she learns the truth, though, she asks Rygar to kill her before Cronus can take over her body. When she's made to think he was killed, she does a Heel≯ace Turn to become Echidna, Titan leader. Historical Domain Character: The Legendary Adventure revealed that that version's Rygar is actually Caesarion, the assumed dead son of Cleopatra. The Arcade version contained a power-up that let him kill them rather than just stunning them. Goomba Stomp: In the arcade and NES games, Rygar can stun enemies by jumping on their heads. Giant Spider: Sagila, the boss of Sagila's cave. Giant Flyer: Epolcons, which drop eggs on the hero's head. Genre Shift: From straight action side-scroller in the arcade, to 2D Metroidvania for the NES, to 3D Metroidvania for the PS2 and Wii. Foreign Re-Score: Most of the music in the NES version was replaced for the English release, for whatever reason. Flash of Pain: Both the enemies and the player in the NES version flash when they're hit. The PAL version of the NES game has significantly lower caps than the NTSC one. International versions of the Arcade game removed some of the hidden power-ups from the Japanese version. Deadly Disc: The Diskarmor is a dangerous disk attached to a retractable rope. Beating the game on Legendary difficulty will unlock the Sushiarmor, which makes the diskarmor look like a plate of sushi. 
Beating the game on Hard with an A rank will unlock the Hambuarmor (makes the Diskarmor look like a hamburger).Beating the 30th basement floor on the Necromandio Cave will give the player the option to use cheats to switch to different joke skins such as the the Guitarmor (makes the diskarmor look like a guitar) the Rollerarmor and the Udonarmor.
Completing the game gives you the cheat to unlock the Pizzarmor, which makes your Diskarmor look like a pizza. Bragging Rights Reward: The 2002 game has several. Better by a Different Name: Legendary Adventure / Battle for Argus usually gets compared (unfavorably) to the God of War series, despite having beaten that game to market by three years.
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