A Princess' Princess: DARK CLOUD 2

SO...I PICKED UP LEGEND OF ZELDA...
I love RPGs, can we ever say that enough? I mean, really, they're my favorite. I don't always have the patience for them, but I do enjoy them. You can draw a pretty neat little line between RPGs and...whatever Legend of Zelda is...and I'll say "Yes, I enjoy that genre too." I guess it's like an action/adventure dungeon crawler? Or something?

 Even Link isn't sure what game genre he fits into.

Anyway, that's kind of beside the point, the point is, Dark Cloud 2 (Dark Chronicle in areas outside of the USA, right?) is a pretty awesome RPG that I played A LOT back in the era of the PS2, and if anyone caught wind of my previous post about what I'm up to as far as video games are concerned, they'd see that I'm uploading a Dark Cloud 2 Let's Play to youtube! Presently there are three episodes up, I have two other episodes I need to put up in the near future, and more to follow (naturally).

Check that out here!

Even more to the point though, is that I noticed some similarities, and some dissimilarities between Dark Cloud 2, and Nintendo's masterpiece, the Legend of Zelda, like they both have princesses!

 Respectively here and here.

What do you mean they have nothing in common? What if I told you that they both used magic? Still nothing special? What if I told you both of them lived in a castle? Okay, so a little sarcasm here and there, and the two games do have nothing to do with each other. It's still pretty cool. The games center on two protagonists who are otherwise normal characters who get caught up in a princess' time line dispersing issues. The two games follow time-travel differently, in Zelda, time travel causes the universe to split into three time lines (one where Link succeeds as a child, one where he succeeds as an adult, and one where he dies? I think?) while in Dark Chronicle, time-travel is used to repair the future and prevent the bad things from happening. I guess that doesn't mean there aren't other time lines, we just don't have examples of them that I'm aware of.

 Respectively here and here.


Look at our heroes, both wear default green costumes (unless you play the Western version), both rely primarily on a melee weapon (never mind the nature of the weapon) that they had to improvise due to destiny (sure one's a wrench and one is a magical sword that was hidden away for such an occasion) and they both have an assortment of tools they rely on. Not to mention they both exist in societies that are sheltered from the outside world until their grand quest begins.

I guess that's really all beside the point though, I just really like this game, and I can draw some similarities to other games that I really like, so yeah...awesome game. I'll talk about the golf and fishing mini games a bit later.

Until then, thanks for reading!