Legend of Legaia

Legend of Legaia (レガイア伝説, Regaia Densetsu) is a 1998 Sony PlayStation role-playing video game created by Contrail. The game was followed by a 2001 sequel video game, Legaia 2: Duel Saga for the PlayStation 2 which, rather than continuing the first game's storyline, provides an original story set in the eponymous Legaia.

Plot

The game takes place in a world called Legaia, populated by humans and objects called Seru, which can join with humans to grant them fantastic powers. While humans and Seru had once peacefully coexisted, about ten years before the game begins the world was covered in a mist which drove Seru mad when it came in contact with them. Seru were transformed into monsters that attacked humans, and human civilization nearly collapsed. At the time the game begins, human survivors have banded together in remote regions to hide from the mist.

The game follows Vahn, the quiet main hero; Noa, an excitable feral child; and Gala, a curt warrior monk, on their quest to revive ten Genesis Trees throughout Legaia in an attempt to vanquish the evil Mist which covers the world. The three heroes join with entities known as Ra-Seru, which grant them powers like Seru but are immune to the effects of the Mist. They travel across three continents, reviving Genesis Trees that push back the Mist over small areas, and destroying the Mist Generators that create it; at times they come into conflict with Songi, Gala's childhood rival, who has joined with a Seru and is progressively mutating into a monster.

Legaia 2: Duel Saga

Legaia 2: Duel Saga, known as Legaia: Duel Saga (レガイア デュエルサーガ) in Japan, is a 2001 PlayStation 2 role-playing video game, a sequel to 1998 game Legend of Legaia developed by Prokion, published by Sony in Japan and Eidos Interactive in North America and Europe.

Gameplay

The game continues its predecessor's approach to turn-based battles, the "Tactical Arts System." It also does away with traditional magical abilities; except Ayne and Maya (who is a casting elemental magician), party members can only access magic through items, or their "Origins."

Also featured in the game are a large amount of mini-games, quests and optional challenges to take on. A guild is present at the town of Kravia, from which players can choose to undertake quests; there's a casino at paradise isle Phorchoon; minor characters in several towns challenge Lang with small dares, such as planting rice and side-jumping.

Another one is camping; accessible at predetermined spots in dungeons and anywhere on the world map after a certain event, characters will set up camp to rest. Here, it is possible to get to know characters more and even watch interactions between them and prepare meals, provided they have been learned by characters and there is a stock of needed ingredients, weapons, armor and accessories is also possible here.