Dark Cloud

One of my favorite games of all time.

Reviewed by jesusfreakjec on August 17, 2008  |  report this review

I'm a huge Zelda fan, and was looking for something similar on the PS2. Dark Cloud combines a very Link-like character with dungeon crawl combat, quest solving, and mini games too.

The main thrust of the game is that you're trying to rebuild a series of homes destroyed by the Evil Enemy. To do so, you go slogging through nearby dungeons, finding home-bits like beds, lamps and so on, on your adventures. When you bring them back to town, you have to figure out which items to where to please the people. In addition, the houses themselves have to be placed so that the people are happy. Some people want to live near a stream, some want to have morning sun in certain windows, and so on.

Your weapons can be customized as you go, and need to be maintained. This gives you a bit of RPG-like control over your life, more in fact than most Zelda games provide to you.

In addition, there are some fun mini-games which help break up the dungeon crawling, and give you a bit of variety.

The game provides much longer gameplay time (usually several weeks) than many other PS games on the market, meaning it's a good value for the price. Perhaps the only downsides are the graphics, which aren't top-notch, and the dungeon crawling being a bit tedious after several hours. Still, it's a good, fun game to play. Grab one for your PS library!

Heal in a dungeon FAST

Hint by embalming_flui on June 30, 2007  |  report this hint

its simple inside the dungeon there is many ponds and such to take drinks from, just run in there and you'll heal right up, some monsters can't go in the ponds too, so they make a great hiding spot.