Even though all these different characters basically gives you the same basic abilities of a powered-up Link near the end of a Zelda game, it works out well here in Dark Cloud. Additionally, specific characters are needed to get past certain parts of some levels and, for boss encounters, it's actually required for you to switch between two or more characters to defeat it. There's a character that is slower, yet offers some extra power with his hammer-based weapons, another casts spells, this cat-like girl uses a slingshot and is the only one that has the ability to jump over holes (not realtime, but press button and she jumps), and another uses a long-range staff weapon and the last makes use of these modern, gun-type weapons. Each of these different allies offers different skills that come into play in the battles and keep things fresh. Once you start making your way through the quest, Toan begins to make friends (allies of Toan that can be switched to at any time in a dungeon once they're a part of your team) that want to help restore the world and destroy the Dark Genie. In the early going, things get mighty repetitive and monotonous quickly, as battles with Toan are limited to him dodging and swinging his sword, but gets remedied a bit as you progress through the adventure. The lock-on targeting system actually works amazingly well and offers very few annoying camera angle or control problems, but just doesn't have much to it. The battle system seems like a direct rip of Ocarina of Time, but a bit dumbed down for the sake of simplicity. Toan's adventures will bring him to dungeons in environments like a shipwreck, a desert palace, a forest, and other out-of-this-world surroundings. There's also a nice mix of locales that you'll come across in Dark Cloud beyond just the first, almost stereotypical, dungeon. Even though this might not seem that fun to some people, and understandably so, if you're the type of gamer, like myself, that likes to waste time in RPGs doing things like leveling up like crazy or managing your weapons in great detail like in Vagrant Story, this can be a very addictive aspect of the game.
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You venture through these dungeons to collect items, find the pieces to rebuild the town, find new and cool weapons and upgrade your characters and their equipment.
The dungeons in the game are best thought of as a simple means to an end. While one won't ever confuse the battle engine or cave designs in Dark Cloud to what you'll find in the Zelda games, they serve a different purpose here. To collect the atla to put his own town and others in the world back together, Toan must journey into a variety of 15-plus level dungeon featuring randomly generated layouts and items. The player is put in the role of young boy named Toan who is chosen by the Fairy King (ha, ha) to help revive the world after it had been destroyed by the recently summoned "Dark Genie" or "Black Demon." You see, as the world was being annihilated by the Genie, the Fairy King managed to save buildings and people by storing them in these magical spheres called "atla." And it's Toan's job to find these pieces to restore each town he comes across using the magical gem that he was given called the "atlamillia." The game works because each element aids in the enjoyment of the other parts. Using all of these elements, the creators of Dark Cloud have successfully crafted a highly-enjoyable and insanely addictive role-playing experience that wouldn't have been able to stand alone with just its story, just its battle system, or any single one of its gameplay elements. And while I can't comment on it directly as I have regretfully never played it, a lot of people have related the world-building elements in Dark Cloud to Act Raiser on the Super NES. The random dungeon elements have been seen in hordes of games before it like Diablo II and countless other games. Players will also see some of Vagrant Story here, as the game relies heavily on the ability to find new weapons to power-up and build according to the desires of the gamer. There's definitely an influence from Nintendo's Zelda franchise, as can be seen by the game's main character, the lock-on battles, and some of its dungeon and artistic design. The game's creators, whether by chance or direct design, have in effect stolen elements from a lot of different great titles from year's gone by and put them together in a single game. The reality of the whole thing is that Sony's RPG is really a compilation of several elements of many different games. Gameplay It's really hard to nail down the genre of Dark Cloud or to explain to someone exactly what type of game it is.
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