“Rygar: The Legendary Adventure” (“Rygar 3D”) is a nostalgia-fueled dip into the past on the part of Tecmo, whose original “Rygar” graced the NES in 1987. While the original game wasn’t refined enough or popular enough to spawn a franchise at the time, Tecmo corrected this oversight with the release of this all-new adventure (that nobody asked for) on the PS2 in 2002, with a port to the Wii in 2009.
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“Rygar 3D” looks pretty decent. It’s obviously not a big-budget game and it doesn’t push the PS2’s capabilities in any way, but the fully-polygonal environments and characters are at least jaggy-free and feature non-muddy textures. Character animation, on the other hand, is pretty bad, especially during cutscenes in which characters don’t seem ... |
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2/5 |
