Rising Star Games are set to bring Rygar: The Battle for Argus to European Wii's this very day, and so this week's Retro Review is a pleasingly topical selection; Tecmo's Rygar: The Legendary Adventure for the PlayStation2. Released back in 2003, Rygar: The Legendary Adventure was welcomed by critics, but it's placement on European shop shelves resulted in the title going largely unnoticed in the territory. With Tecmo having decided to redesign the title for Nintendo's incredibly successful Wii, they quite clearly believe the poor sales of the PlayStation2 version were unwarranted, and when playing through the original release, you may well find it hard to disagree with them.
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Some readers probably know that “Rygar” started as a hack & slash arcade game during the eighties and was converted to various machines, including the NES. “Rygar: the legendary adventure” is a version for the PS2, with 3D graphics.
Drew Leachman writes: The From A to Z series lets our editors go back and take a look at games from past generations that are classics, overlooked gems, or just titles they remember fondly. The idea behind this is to pick five games from each letter of the alphabet, once a week to showcase. This delivers 26 weeks and 130 games to talk about. Hopefully it sparks some conversation, and of course plenty of memories.
Our second series will focus on Sony’s sophomore entry into the console business, the PlayStation 2.
Let’s continue with the letter “R”.
Yoshifuru Okamoto is a producer with Valhalla Game Studios working on Devil’s Third with Tomonobu Itagaki. Along with his producer duties, he also says he is Itagaki’s drinking buddy and bodyguard. Before all that, however, he was on an academic route on the road to be a scholar of classics or an excavation expert in the world of archeology. Instead of all that, he decided to take a video game route and the first game he worked on was 2002’s Rygar: The Legendary Adventure for PlayStation 2.
