Here's my rant:

I thought I'd go and play a fairly high profile PS2 JRPG, it started out great, but here's some points that just made the game unplayable about 1/3 of the way in.

Item menu is a mess: Every item from the key items, power ups, weapons, healing items, items you need to forge to make new ones, even the materials needed to build towns are all in the same jumbled up grid with no way to properly sort them, they allow you to press the select button to sort, but all that does is randomly re-jumble them, need ot heal yourself? Well you're going to have to search through over 200 items that are to do with every aspect of the game to find it.

Important NPC's don't have names: Yup, half the game is running errand's for NPC characters, nothing is more joyful than being told to "Give Jane this Diamond". Okay great, but who the crap is Jane? And where the hell is she? You'll have endless hours of fun doing very similar things hunting for nameless NPC's, you'll be given their names when asked to do the errand, however NO NPC's are named so you have to guess who they are and run around forever trying to find them.

Play Golf (Spheda) blindfolded: This one really pissed me off, Mini games like Golf are meant to be fun, though this one is anything but, first thing that is wrong with it is the camera angle, and it is not forgivable, most of the 'goals' are floating in the air, the camera does not allow you to look up at it, so you have to aim outside of the screen and hope that your guess is correct, after you've likely missed and your ball travels half a mile away from you, instead of like most golf games and appearing next to it for your next blindfolded shot, you have to go look for it yourself, so really it's 2 mini games in one, hide and seek and blindfold golf.

Mindless hack and slash: You have an amazing 2 functions involved with combat, your main weapon (the main character wields an exciting handyman tool-spanner) only the chic has a sword and your secondary, shooting out of your gun or using magic if you are that whiny bitch Monica, sure if you're Monica you can transform into a monster that dies within 2 hits, or if you are the main dude you can jump in his stack of crates that looses HP for walking, don't expect Summons or cool combo's let alone any kind of spells, you know the usual things that appear in decent RPG's.

There's plenty more but these are the main ones that make the game terrible.

=)

I never liked the look of the series, a friend of mine bought Dark Cloud and told me it was a bad game, so I never bothered... thankfully.

Played it for an hour about 3 years ago. Flelt the same and never touched it again.

Here's to a better Dark Cloud 3 though.

never heard of this game before.

Its definitely way oveerrated

i actually agree with you. i rented it a couple years ago. started out great, but then got to this forest bit where u had to rebuild a village or something, and it just went down hill from there, actually stopped playing before i finished rebuilding the village.

also i didn't like the character designs, i mean who uses a wrench to fight?! (i kno its different but i couldn't get over this point)

Every person who posted in this topic is a n00b, DC2 isn't a JRPG, and you fail at existance, imo.

...So I'm not the only who got bored looking at it?

At least 3 of my roomates have dumped 200 hours into the game. Each. Mainly grinding for uber-powered ingredients and such.

And the menu...OMG it's such a mess.

And that one battle song...that resets every 5 seconds because they kill things so quickly...ARGH

And then they don't deploy any strategy on a boss!
Me: "Shouldn't you use Max on that flying boss? I mean, Monica can't reach with her sword right?"
"B-b-but I hate Max."
Me: "...but Monica can't reach, and the boss interrupts her spells."
"B-b-but I hate Max."
*10 minutes of doing nothing, getting shot and healing later*
"ARGH I'll switch to Max then!"
*30 seconds later, dead boss*
"I hate Max." *switches to Monica*
Me: *facepalm*

How old are you?

From reading what you just wrote, everyone who is a real gamer, should freakin' know how great the game is. It's like, you proved my case for me.

You guys are like outsiders peeking at others greatness. FYI, the game is spectacular. Your problem is obvious, because a lot of n00bs have it. You didn't understand the complexities of the building system in the game, and weren't interested, so it turned you off. That's why I highly suggest strategy guides with this game, just like with Final Fantasy XII, to gain the most from your experience, and give you through one of the most complex and interesting games out for the PS2.