Legend of Dragoon (2000)
I was in the tank for The Legend of Dragoon the second I saw the Game Informer cover story. The Sony-developed RPG took aim at Final Fantasy and missed, but not by much. The pre-rendered backgrounds were magnificent, the music was beautiful, and the mythological stakes helped me look past the ugly enemy designs and incredibly grindy random encounters. I loved it so much, I beat the whole thing and then watched my cousins play it again on an old TV in the basement that had no sound. — Ethan Gach
