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Dark Cloud PlayStation 2
  • Publisher: SCEA
  • Release Date: May 28, 2001
User Score
8.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 47 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 47
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 47
  3. Negative: 6 out of 47

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  1. JimC
    Jun 10, 2009
    5
    The combat is boring and repetitive, the plot is terrible, and the soundtrack is dull. I personally find half the characters worthless, and they also add nothing to the story. The game is so empty that every main character could die a horrible death and I'd be indifferent. However, I love the weapon system and rebuilding the villages so I might just be able to finish it.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  2. JustinJ.
    Oct 24, 2001
    10
    This game rockz!! The weapons are great, the graphics are sweet, and instead of having all that hard rock stuff, there's just sum mellow music u can chill out to!!:)
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DanielN.
    Dec 30, 2001
    10
    Dark Cloud can be described in two words: IT RULES! It has pretty good sound, It's graphics are great, and I love the new weapons system. It gives a great thrill to RPG gamers. I've played Zelda, Final Fantasy IV-X, Legend of the Dragoon, etc., but none of 'em have this good graphics or gameplay. In the end Dark Cloud is one heck of an RPG!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. ThomasK.
    Jul 4, 2002
    9
    Challenging but exciting.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. Frisco
    Apr 2, 2002
    9
    This is an excellent game, it's VERY addictive and the city building and fishing are really cool, but as much as I love this game, I've gotta chip off 1 point for repetitiveness and well...CRAPPY MUSIC! Good graphics though.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. RyanM.
    Feb 22, 2003
    10
    Masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just plain fun.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. SeanM.
    Aug 29, 2001
    4
    I was not excited one bit about Dark Cloud. I thought the game looked great from the package and heard great reviews. Sadly, I ended up trading this game because it lacked in the "fun factor." After awhile it got tiring and not as great as it was rated in top magazines. DARK CLOUD gets the McNair thumbs down!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. MegV.
    Jul 29, 2002
    10
    Got the demo in the mail. I think it is great like Zelda in the combat system. Building the towns is fun, and I like the dungeons. The whole idea of saving the world is kinda repetitive in games, if they just didn't do it so ... differently. I hope to get this game for X-mas, because its just lovely!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. [Anonymous]
    Jan 7, 2002
    10
    It is one of the best games I have ever played. It is a lot like Zelda and kind of like Final Fantasy Games as far as the story.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. AllenP.
    Oct 10, 2001
    10
    Great graphics and the style of play is much more realistic than Zelda.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  11. BoredTodeath
    Feb 9, 2002
    1
    I expected this would be like Zelda with a main story and multiple side quests. This was just multiple dungeons doing the same thing over and over and over and over. The Bosses were easy too, including the genie at the end. Expect to be bored to tears and to spend a lot of time as you move from place to place as the game takes forever to switch scenes. The only good thing I can say is the graphics were excellent.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  12. [Anonymous]
    Jul 9, 2001
    8
    It is a great role-playing game.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  13. TomJ.
    Jun 30, 2001
    10
    I love this game because you have a variety of characters, abilities, and magic. Sometimes the game is boring like when you have to go through 18 levels in one dungeon, but its worth the score of a ten.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  14. ChrisM.
    Oct 12, 2002
    9
    It's a really good game, but the battle areas, dungeons, never get much different and get boring. I like the upgrade deal that you can do with your weapons and the status break, it helps you to improve your skills and strengths. But, I don't like when you break your weapon and lose all your progress on it. All in all I give this game a rating of 9.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  15. KevinL.
    Dec 30, 2001
    10
    This game is GREAT!!!!!! The only problem with it is that me and my brother fight over who gets to play! Great graphics, and a good gaming format.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  16. Theimminent26
    Mar 21, 2003
    5
    I give this pathetic piece of "entertainment" five merely for the georama and the deep weapon system. However every single other aspect except for the usually entertaining music is worthless and should be eternally forgotten the day this game is someones favorite is the end of the world. Plus since the combat is inept it cancels out the deep weapon system. Maybe if you enjoy going to teh exact same dungeon over and over with different "random" floors over and over and over and over for every dungueon you might enjoy this waste of time. ANd as a last note to many characters with useless purposes......I hate this game but you are entitled to your .....opinion...i guess. … Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  17. AmyW.
    Apr 6, 2002
    10
    I love this game. It's the best. I've played Zelda before and when I heard this was similar, I manged to get a demo. The demo is great and I'm quite sure the real game will be even better!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  18. BobB.
    Jul 12, 2001
    9
    Great!, Fantastic! but a little repetitive. Overall the game has very few weak points and tons of strong points such as stunning weapons, terrific allies, village assembly, and the graphics. Its like "Dundgeons & Dragons" + "Sim City 2000." Very Cool!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  19. KouisG.
    Jul 23, 2001
    10
    Great, fantastic. It's the best game I ever played. It's like Zelda and Zoe put together.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  20. CamK.
    Apr 9, 2002
    8
    The gameplay was great at first, but got a little monotonous. It was still pretty fun, though, with the georama stuff and the weapon buildup options. Overall, a great game worth the money.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  21. MatthewI.
    Nov 12, 2004
    2
    Can people please stop judging this game on the demo as only with the real game can you grasp the true monotony of it. The randomly created dungeon levels are dull and exactly the same as the one before it, and the one before that, and the one before that, and the ten more before that and even when you reach the bottom of the dungeons (if you have the patience to get there) bosses consist simply of choosing the character with the weapon that can stun the boss and then hitting it with your strongest one. The weapon system is drab and anoying, never giving you enough repair powders with which you acxn repair your swords so that you're eventually forced to sell anything good that you have in order to buy repair powders. And after putting so much work into "training" a sword for it to suddenly break and you loose everything is one of the most annoying things I've ever experinced. For some reason your character cannot go five minutes without a drink. Literally. If he doesn't have a drink he starts to loose health, meaning you either have to stock up on expensive water or constantly trek back across the levels to get to a spring. It gets two marks only for the village building part, which is also flawed. There is no storyline that I can see. Never ever ever get this game. Get Dark Cloud 2 instead.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  22. NaomiM.
    Nov 4, 2004
    10
    Its great!!! I love rebuilding the villages! I just wish they talked!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  23. FedG.
    Oct 30, 2005
    10
    This game is the best.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  24. AndoT.
    Apr 13, 2006
    2
    Boring and repetitive. Definately one to steer well clear of. It's so dull that it makes Runescape look inspired.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  25. MarkW.
    Mar 20, 2003
    9
    V good game, gunna buy the sequel.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  26. AuroraH.
    Dec 26, 2001
    10
    I love the graphics, the detail, the music, the characters! It's a great game, a mix between Zelda and Final Fantasy!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  27. C.T.
    Jan 8, 2002
    9
    This is not the best game of all time. It is not the worst. It is, however a good game. I've heard people relate it to Zelda. They are wrong. It vaguely resembles the Zelda 64 Battle system. I've heard it related to Final Fantasy. They are VERY VERY wrong, because it is in NO WAY like a turn-based RPG. What it IS like is a weird mix of Darkstone/Diablo with a third-person fighting perspective with an odd town-building thingy thrown in. What the game comes down to is a very advanced dungeon crawl. Mix the Random Map generation and multi-level dungeon aspects of Diablo (Actually it's more like Darkstone, but fewer people have played that... but I digress) with a more in-depth battle system (Much more in-depth than point at monster, click on monster, monster dies, get item, get next monster...) and a very cool weapon buildy-upy thingy. It's a fun game, if you don't mind a monotonous dungeon crawl. The story is fascinating, but very slow moving. The characters are interesting, but lack depth. Enemies range from very simple to absurdly hard, and sometimes you find something that will, without warning, kill you very VERY quickly. Poison is the bane of travelers, and repairing weapons after every few enemies gets old FAST. However, despite these downfalls it's a fun game, and a good start. I hope that Level Five Builds upon this experience, and genereates a game of truely epic proportions. Well, I've rambled on for a bit longer that I was going to, so I'll Stop Now.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  28. MangaWasabi
    May 3, 2011
    9
    This is my favorite game of all time. I got back when i was a kid during the early 2000s. I still play it quite frequently to this day. This is one of the only games I've done that with! The plot, is great...but it only gets very interesting near the end. The combat isn't very complex but i find it enjoyable. The music can be great, but some songs are way too overused. The game has flaws, but it's still amazing.… Expand
  29. llamayarmybar
    Jul 21, 2011
    6
    More repetitive than watching the tour de France. Serious collision detection issues, boring enemies, cheap attacks, no ability to buy items until portions of the village have been set down, no interesting characters, no continuity, poor camera, useless item breaking system, tedious town re-building, and many other things. You know that feeling when you've just leveled up that bad-ass sword forever and it suddenly breaks in combat? That is essentially what describes the reaction I have to most of this game. Its bland, the environments are repetitive, the combat is boring and it uses those methods to elongate a game that has essentially no story line. I thought things would change up when I was about half-way though the game- but they stayed exactly the same. Although the one positive thing that happened- they made a sequel that fixed a lot of these problems that I still haven't picked up, but I will. Since what I liked in this game I did actually like a lot- its just disappointing that they made so many mistakes the first time.… Expand
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Metascore
80 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Hot Games
    80
    It’s a captivating run for about the first ten hours of play, then dungeon levels become too mechanical. Still, for all its shortcomings, the game also has its share of charms.
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  2. Absolute Playstation
    91
    Crawling through hoards of dungeons in search for more, and more pieces to your missing world never got old for me. I was always driven to go on.
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  3. All Game Guide
    70
    The game could not have survived as a dungeon crawler alone, and thankfully the many side diversions offer hours of fun by themselves.
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