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Legaia Duel Saga

Legaia 2: Duel Saga
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Developer(s) Prokion
Publisher(s)
Director(s) Natsumi Arisawa
Producer(s) Katsuhiko Kanazawa
Designer(s) Takuya Kuwazono
Programmer(s) Noriyuki Watanabe
Artist(s) Natsumi Arisawa
Writer(s) Kazushige Inaba
Composer(s) Hitoshi Sakimoto
Yasunori Mitsuda
Michiru Oshima
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release
  • JP: November 29, 2001
  • NA: October 1, 2002
  • EU: October 11, 2002
Genre(s) Adventure, Role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player
Aggregate scores
Aggregator Score
GameRankings 70.46%
Metacritic 67/100

Legaia 2: Duel Saga, known as Legaia: Duel Saga (レガイア デュエルサーガ) in Japan, is a PlayStation 2 action role-playing game developed by Prokion and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the sequel to PlayStation's Legend of Legaia. It was first released in Japan in 2001, and was released in North America and Europe by Eidos Interactive under the label of Fresh Games.

The player controls five characters for the world and only three for the battle screen, while others cannot replace the leading character. The player can learn about each of them as the game progresses. For the campfire, the player can combine meal recipes, and only two or more items to increase status on weapons, armor and accessories. This can be used to create items for special abilities. For the player, each characters can make their own nicknames. The game features a large amount of mini games, quests and optional challenges, such as the guild for every quests, the casino at paradise isle Phorchoon, and for Lang to plant rice and side-jump. In the Centurion Challenge and Battle Arena, hidden bosses appear like the original ones. Like the first game, the player can input four button commands for the "Tactical Arts System". Combining each from three to seven blocks sometimes unlock moves called "Arts", which are permanently available between on the battle and menu screen. The max limited number of art blocks is increased each after leveling up. Several types of moves include Normal Arts (less damage to gain AP), and Super and Hyper Arts (costing AP for more damage). Starting from five blocks for the rest of each characters (except Maya), the player can link with arts in each blocks from hyper to normal and super ones. Mystic Arts are combinations of the character's spiritual powers. It costs 100 AP and MP, and each characters must have 50% or less of HP and seven blocks. Variable Arts are double team moves that two characters perform to defeat one enemy, using six blocks and costing 80 AP. The player can use the power of the spirits, costing MP to increase their status temporarily, recover health, and annihilate one or all enemies.

The game follows a group of outcasts called "Mystics", siding to fight each other between good and evil, and the people believe in. The Mystics summon natural spirits called "Origin". They were created by the Source Forge, the world's creation located inside Demiurge Tower, along with three magical stones (Aqualith, Pyrolith and Aerolith). In the town of Kravia, mystics went on a rampage, leaving the crater as a trace. Under the castle sewers of Darakin connects to the underground cave of Kabel, the abandoned kingdom.


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