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SammyGiireal on 24 November 2018
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BraLoD said:
Darashiva said:

In the end its just differing opinions, and I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm guessing everyone has those games they rate much higher than average, LoD just happens to be the one I always found to be far better than what the average score would suggest. 

That's more or less it really. There doesn't really seem to be a general consensus about LoD, like there are for a lot of other games. Naturally people will disagree about the quality of a pretty much any game, but I'm not sure how often that opinion differs to quite as huge a degree as it does with LoD. There are other titles like that for sure, but I feel like they are much more uncommon in general. 

Yep, there will always be different opinions but mostly a consensus, LoD is on the rarer size of it where there is simply not.

For instance Sony itself hates the game, lol.

But one thing is for certain, around the time I joined online forums 10 years ago up until now, the game has been WAY more praised then it was before.

Not saying it was me, lol, but it really did become way more respected from what I remember readings from old threads/boards back then.

One factor is surely its release on PSN in Japan 2010 and specially later in 2012 when it came out in the US too. Then came the PS4 rumors and all that was fuel for some hope and speculation.

Now its widely considered a hidden gem or at least cult classic.

Interestingly LoDs cult following grew during the fall of the JRPG as a mainstream genre. I imagine playing LoD today for those who weren't near adulthood in the late 90s is like a revelation as there are very few if any JRPGs that can match the production values of the game. Even in the late 90s early 00s were JRPGs ruled LoD was known for its production Values.