BAHAMUT LAGOON

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Bahamut Lagoon is (almost) Everything i've ever wanted from a creature game. I love the art, I love the awesome and fucking stupid looking dragons. This game was an actual blast.

I was never that into strat RPGS like FE, mostly because I didn't mesh with the characters, but this one was simple enough that I didn't need to expand my mind 4 ways to win a battle. The battling is fairly simple, but the raising mechanics has some sort of meat to it. I didn't understand it, but I think whenever you feed your dragons and hit a certain stat threshold, they evolve. Each dragon has a couple paths, and some completely change how the dragon looks and operates. Feeding the thunder dragon poison grass changed it to a toxic crab. It's complex mostly because of how much it doesn't tell you, but most of it is intuitive. It's based off of final fantasy stats, so wis is the healing, strength is the beating, etc. But don't worry, the difficulty becomes completely nonexistant if you grind.

I was also playing suboptimally because the rom i was using mistranslated some of the stats. I had no fucking clue what COR was. I also speedran the uni uni by feeding my hydra 50 fucking mushrooms

The dragons were absolutely the main appeal of the game for me. I have such a big gripe with monster games where they try too hard to be pokemon-esque in their graphics. Look at any creature capture game from the past few years and they all just turn into a homogenous moe blob of cute animals. The dragons actually looking like final fantasy enemies was all that I needed to pick up the game. Some of the designs are downright esoteric, though.

The story was not good at all. It skews younger, so I didn't expect shakespeare, but it was a bit too goofy for its own good. Its a simple final fantasy story, its just that all the characters are wildly horny for princess Yoyo. A lot of the humor comes from how horny everyone is for everyone, even the 60+ old gay guy. I love you, Sendak.

It's a real turn your brain off game. It's just plain old silly fun. Highly recommend it.