Trivia / The Legend of Dragoon

• Follow the Leader: A JRPG about a spiky-haired protagonist chasing a white-haired pretty boy around the game world with a major party character death in the first disc. It's not hard to figure out what success they were trying to channel here.
• He Also Did: Yasuyuki Hasebe was the lead writer, designer, and Director of The Legend of Dragoon. He also worked on another RPG prior to this one; one that involved a certain famous plumber and a wooden doll.
• Reclusive Artist: Yasuyuki Hasebe, the writer, designer, and director of The Legend of Dragoon, hasn't been seen since its release.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A sequel was originally planned and was actually put into pre-production. Sadly, it was cancelled for unknown reasons. Instead, the development team went on to do different projects.
  • Dart was being considered as a DLC fighter for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, according to one of the game's modelers, who leaked a 3D model of Dart that he created on his online portfolio (after which his entire website was taken down). This would've been Dart's first appearance in a game in thirteen years. Ironically, this news dropped shortly after Shuhei Yoshida said in a podcast interview with IGN that All-Stars Battle Royale didn't perform well enough to pursue any new DLC.
  • It was intended that there would be a fight of some sort against all seven of the original Dragoons, but Shirley's was removed in favor of a Sheathe Your Sword puzzle because the White-Silver Dragoon's healing powers combined with enemies having infinite MP would have made her impossible to defeat. Battle Data for Shirley's Dragoon form is still on the disc.

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