Dark Cloud manages to become less amusing as your party grows. But the game itself is unique with the city-building aspects, and exciting with the RPG and exploration elements. The appeal of the early PS2 graphics and inflated length of the north american version all come together to form a nostalgic and endlessly replayable adventure.

A Zelda knockoff lacking in anything that made Zelda entertaining. The controls handle like crap, the camera system has to be seen to be believed, the difficulty curve makes no sense etc. but the town building and weapon crafting were pretty cool I guess. If you have a thing for repetitive dungeon crawling and loli catgirls then you'll get a kick out of this, otherwise there's very little to recommend here. Extremely disappointing overall.