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バハムート ラグーン
©1996 Square
Release: 1996-02-09 (¥11400)
Cartridge SHVC-AXBJ-JPN
Role Playing/Strategy Game
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Bahamut Lagoon is a strategy/Role Playing game released by Squaresoft
in 1996 and is often regarded as the most underrated game ever released by the famous
company. Bahamut Lagoon takes place in a world made of floating islands called
Lagoons. The player is put in the shoes of Byuu, a young dragon rider and
captain of the Kahna Squad. The game starts when the evil and tyrannical
Sauzer from the Granbelos Empire decides to take over the
Dragon Kingdom of Kahna and to kidnap the young princess Yoyo.
Our hero, along with his friends, decide to hide for sometime and train their
dragons to form a group of resistance - they hope that some day they will
be ready and strong enough to attack the invader and rescue the princess. They soon
all embark on a journey to unite the power of the Holy Dragons, ancient beasts
supposed to defend the Lagoons, and use them to defeat Emperor Sauzer.
Or this is what they think... The limited Role Playing side of the game gets the
player to control Byuu and the story unfolds as the game progresses - he can
talk to people or buy new equipment and items. Out of the battles, the game also
features an expansive dragon feeding system that raises the animals' stats and
change their aspect overtime. However, and unlike traditional role playing games,
the player gets to control multiple parties of four and their respective dragons
during battles. Players don't get to control the beasts directly though - they have
to be told what to do and three commands are available to do so. The first
one is 'Go!' and tells the dragon to attack, the second is 'Come!'
and gets him to fly close to his master then the final one is 'Wait!' and
forces him to stay put and wait. Characters, on the contrary, can attack using
traditional weapons and magic spells. Battles follow a traditional turned based
system and all the enemies, or in some cases the enemy's general, need to
be defeated to win a fight.
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Bahamut Lagoon was never officially released outside Japan, it was
however fan translated by Tomato, Dark Force, Neill Corlett and
CPT and a patch was unofficially released in 2002.
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Game Staff (Copied from the fan translated version's end credits) :
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Presented by
Square Co. Ltd
Translated By
Tomato
dark Cloud
Neill Corlett
CPF
TEAM
BAHAMUT LAGOON
STAFF
Project Leader
Hitoshi Sasaki
Director
Kazushige Nojima
Producer
Tadashi Nomura
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Main Programmers
Kazuhisa Murakami
Hiroshi Ono
Story Event Planner
Motomu Toriyama
Simulation Planner
Takatsugu Nakazawa
Naoya Kawahira
Special Programmer
Tetsuji Iwasaki
Super Effect Graphic Designer
Kunio Asahara
Assistant Director
Takeshi Endo
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Event Planner Mapping
Satoru Tsuji
Music Composer
Noriko Matsueda
Sound Engineer
Teruaki Sugawara
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Sound Programmer
Hidenoki Suzuki
Character Graphic Designers
Fumiyasu Sasaki
Murasaki Iriguchi
Monster Graphic Designer
Shin Nagasawa
Event BG Graphic Designer
Rena Sasaki
Field Graphic Designers
Takahiro yamashita
Tomoe Inazawa
Special Thanks
Kenichi Shinoda
Takato Itou
Hiromi Masuda
Hiroyoshi Hamada
Yoshitaka Hirota
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Jun Saitou
Kiyomi Tanakawa
Hisako Suzuki
Kenichi Ohko
Miyabi Ito
Kouchiro Matsumoto
Supervisor
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Executive producer
Tetsuo Mizuno
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Japanese Guidebook
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Japanese Guidebook
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Japanese Soundtrack
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Japanese Phonecard
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Japanese Phonecard
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Japanese Novelbook
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Japanese Novelbook
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Bahamut Lagoon is, simply put, amazing. Because polish is what
often makes a Squaresoft game, Bahamut features incredible
graphics, breathtaking character design and neat special effects.
The original Japanese version
is also relatively "easy" to understand - figuring out items and equipment
names is sort of the only the tricky part. This is especially true during
dragon feeding, they tend to eat anything and you don't want to waste a
valuable piece of weaponry in the process. But Bahamut Lagoon was
fan-translated in English and released on the internet - so non Japanese
players can now enjoy this game in all its glory. Bahamut Lagoon
is however rather linear but this shouldn't scare you - in fact there's a
lot to do like raising your dragons, dealing with the various side quests
and fighting challenging and long (sometimes a bit too long) battles.
All in all, Bahamut Lagoon is a masterpiece of the 16bit era
that shouldn't be missed by strategy/Role Playing fans.
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