A man of culture, I see.

Sony aren't going to let you run your PS1 discs, sorry dude.

That would be really neat and disgusting at the same time.

Also that just made me realise, why didn't Sony just call their PS Plus tiers Bronze, Silver and Gold? Missed opportunity.

I love Rose, she is up there with Lavitz as my fav chars.

Also, that chest is definitely something of luck-based indeed, because, even as it does give you enough attempts to get some loot if you know what you are doing, but for the ultimate wargod you definitely need some luck or to try multiple times to figure it out so quickly.

The good thing is, that item is useless for me as I love to do the additions myself, the bad is that selling it gives you tons of money xD

Sony would rather keep pretending the game never even existed, sadly.

To me it really looks like Sony has some actual problems with the game.

Either they did have some kind of agreement with Square to keep out of JRPGs, some kind of licensing issues as the project was massive or even something about the game director that just completely disappeared from the known society after LoD was out, really, is he still even alive? Nobody knew a thing about it after that game.

But either way, the gaming press definitely didn't like it that much back then, and maybe Sony just don't think its ever worth investing that much to just break even and get mediocre scores... but the way Sony makes it best to keep pretending it doesn't even know what it is certainly stinks of something weird.

At this point we had:

Shuhei Yoshida, which was one of the games producers and the one people from Sony to ever talk about it at all (mostly when it was added on PSN, he personally posted it on the PS Blog, which was really rare for him, as it wae him that revealed there was once a LoD2 and even he doesn't know why it just faded into obscurity inside Sony) and being the head of world wide studios for years;

Mark Ceny, which is PS4 and PS5 lead architect and have a lot of status within Sony that even let him develop a new IP that publicly said LoD is his favorite games from the 90s;

And most recently Peter Dalton, a director from Bluepoint Games, now part of Sony, that stated he would love a LoD remake to be a project on their studios back when Demon's Souls Remake was still not confirmed to be actually it.

And Sony can't even make a tweet to congratulate the game on its anniverssary, or include it for free in the classic mini console (that was for the best tho, as it was a disaster), must less invest on it.

I've been following any trace from Sony about this game actively since 2008, and the three single times Sony even recognized it even existed was:

When it released on PSN really late, and Shu talked about it and the LoD2 project being a thing;

When in some conference I can't remember after an update on a montage about PS classic games on their site there was Dart and Rose in dragoon form added on it (the only time I ever saw that kind of thing, and if I remember well it was only after people questioned about it that they were updated with the most common google search images you'll get about them);

And when Dart was revealed to be scrapped as a dlc character on PSASBR and kept that way even after we campaigned about it being added once we knew it because of a leaked image of his model.

For some reason, way more than just money it seems, they REALLY make it look like they don't even know they own it at all, sadly.

So juicy!

What Rose does is a massive burden on her as well, but I'll not go in too much detail since it looks like you doesn't remember that very well and is currently set to get to see it again.

Albert is faster than Lavitz, not stat wise, sure, but his movements are definitely faster and a bit more refined, compared to Lavitz more brutish moves, you really need to adapt to both styles as its really different even if the additions themselves are the named the same.

Madness Hero is all about knowing the pause times between the slashes, don't bother trying to follow them by eye, most of them are paced between themselves in the exact same timing, you can even close your eyes to make it easily once you get it right, lol, but yeah, it was one I really struggled in my first playthrough until I realised that.

And yeah, the final and best addition for all chars (except the obvious Bow users) is only unlocked when you get level 5 in all their others ones, so you need at least 80 completitions on each to unlock them.

Completely worthy it, is the best for every single char.

Did you reach disc 3 already? I just love 2 disc so much, the reunion after the ghost ship incident is just so good.