r/LegendofLegaia

Title says it all.

Mist has volumetric lighting AND physics interaction with the player models. It'll even leave a wake when characters move through it.

The towns, dungeons, world map, and battles all have their own treatment, since the scale on each character/models varies so the mist had to as well.

It was A LOT of work to get this working, and it will be a lot more to start getting the real-time lighting to also light the mist volume as well.

That said, this is running on my laptop at a rock solid 60fps, and over 120 when uncapped. (Ryzen 9 7000 series + RTX card so I expect nothing less).

Definitely added quality settings to lighting, shadows, and volumes and all that so people with even lower end hardware can still play and enjoy. I also chose to run at 1280 x 912 (so scaled up 4x from the original retail of 320 x 228) NOT something insane like 1440 or 4k (ew) that just wastes pixel power on adding nothing to a game like this. I opted for more rich features than raw resolution - though 16:9 widescreen and like 1080p are on the "to do after the main port is done" list, as it has its own view related issues that would just soak up time I dont have.

Hope this is a fun update for y'all!

First played Legaia as a kid on my PSP, unfortunately it didn’t make it over the years, bought a PS Vita and finally got around to finishing it front to back again!

highly recommend playing this way if you are a busy adult who needs to pick up and put down games constantly

I used the patch to correct the exp and enemy stats from the NA version to make it less grindy and it was a much more consistent experience. I found it a lot easier, but much less painful to repetitively need to grind.

Such a good nostalgia trip, I forgot how cheesy the writing is but it just adds to its quirks.

so excited to see the community for this game alive and well.

If theres one thing this game always gets me on its the music. It has always kept me so immersed and really fits the world incredibly well, as a grown man it still makes me a bit teary.

the combat system is just lovely, this games uniqueness in almost every facet design wise is a huge thing pushing me to work on a passion project game of my own. just a matter of making the time and energy to haha.

I hope the devs see how fondly people still talk about this game, theres an obvious passion poured into it, and it just screams human creativity and expression, something we are at a lack of nowadays, its themes aged quite well, and i think its quite timeless.

thinking of picking up a copy of legaia 2 on ebay and playing it on PS2, honestly never got around to it myself, so it might be a fun time!

I’ve been struggling more and more the past years to actually finish games I’ve started, so replaying one of my favourites is really gratifying.

anyway just wanted to share my experience!