The visuals of Rygar: The Legendary Adventure are, in a word, stunning. "Ultimate destruction" is the name of the game, folks, and you'll have to destroy just about everything in sight to make Rygar more powerful. Pillars, statues, fountains, buttresses, rubble, walls all these (and more!) can be destroyed with the Diskarmor, allowing Rygar to access and explore new areas where you may find treasure, or more likely a horde of monsters. Of course, you don't just smash enemies - you can smash just about everything else you see. Utilizing the right type of Diskarmor is important, and could mean the difference between victory and defeat.
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There are three different types of Diskarmor which can be changed on the fly, each with different properties: the Hades Diskarmor is a long-range weapon that attacks in a straight line the Heavenly Diskarmor leaves a wide swath of destruction and the Sea Diskarmor is short-range but extremely quick to strike and all three allow Rygar to summon mythical creatures to aid him in battle, and later can be powered up using magical stones. As Rygar swings his arm, the Diskarmor extends blades and is flung out from him on a chain, rather like a giant yo-yo, ripping into the enemy - or just about anything else. In fact, it is more than even that, as it acts as a weapon, defense, and even a grappling hook. The Diskarmor, which appears at first to be just a round shield, is not your typical weapon.
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It doesn't just take a page from Capcom's Devil May Cry, it takes just about the whole damn book - but the gameplay is still where Rygar truly shines. So, pretty basic action game fare, non? Well, it's as the story progresses (which won't really as much as it could, unless you collect hidden scrolls and tablets of knowledge) that Rygar begins to become more interesting: primarily because the whole game is loaded to the brim with Greek mythology, which is something hardly seen in any games at all ( Kid Icarus, which there is not a remake of, not withstanding), and lends a very interesting atmosphere to the adventure. Rygar recieves a weapon called Diskarmor from a mysterious, unseen being to vanquish the supernatural evil that has defeated Argus. But one fateful day, the princess is kidnapped by hideous fiends known as Titans, and the Kingdom of Argus is overrun and brought to ruination by monstrous creatures. Battle has just about completely consumed Rygar's memory (too many cracks on the head, I suppose), and he lives only to serve Argus's Princess Harmonia as a valorous gladiator. You are Rygar, the mightiest warrior of the ancient kingdom of Argus, a small island ruled by the powerful Roman Empire. Tecmo, not seeking to be elbowed out during this period of potential profit, revived Rygar for the Sony PlayStation 2, releasing Rygar: The Legendary Adventure in North America on November 27, 2002, and Argos no Senshi in Japan on Decemto legions of waiting fans.
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Contra, Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden, and many already established series attempting a " return to roots", as it were, are the soup du jour. Now, it's late 2002, and gamers seem to be clamoring for remakes, remakes, remakes. Nevertheless, Rygar gained a great cult following over the years its innovative free-roaming system, along with other ground-breaking gameplay mechanics (Rygar's Diskarmor, which we'll get to later, and the experience system, among others) earned it the respect it deserved among gamers. To the casual observer, it was just an average "beat on anything that moves" side-scroller in a sea of a great many others in the genre ( CastleVania, Contra and Mega Man tend to be the most remembered 2D action games of the period). The original game, made by Tecmo, saw ports to the Atari Lynx, the TurboGrafx 16, Sega Master System (in Japan only) and (most importantly) Nintendo's NES.
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Not many people remember the original Rygar, originally a Japanese arcade game called Argos no Senshi ( Knight of Argus).