Here there be dragons. Let's Play Bahamut Lagoon!

I'm back! Miss me? This time, I'll be playing one of Square's lesser-known treasures, namely...



Bahamut Lagoon! Alongside titles such as Seiken Densetsu 3 and Live A Live, there never was an official translation made (yet, hopefully), however, thanks to the efforts of a fan translation group called DeJap there is a translation patch available, so if you'd like to play along, download the patch here.

-Table of Contents-
Prologue - The Fall of Kahna
Chapter 1 - The Beginning
Chapter 2 - The Legend we Dreamed of...
Chapter 3 - The Green Continent of Campbell
Chapter 4 - Full of Regret
Chapter 5 - Emperor Sauzer
Chapter 6 - It's Not a Dream, is it...?
Chapter 7 - The Legend of the Holy Dragons
Chapter 8 - Mid-Air Dragon Battle
Chapter 9 - Mahal, the Continent of Miracles
Chapter 10 - Rainbow Bridge
Chapter 11 - Leviathan
Chapter 12 - The Spy Operation
Chapter 13 - The Magic City of Godland
Chapter 14 - When the Bird-Dragon Awakens...
Chapter 15 - Showdown in the Burning Sands
Chapter 16 - The Holy Dragon, Jormungand
Chapter 17 - The Door to a New Era
Chapter 18 - The Promised Land
Chapter 19 - Farewell, Matelite!
Chapter 20 - The Sky of Sadness
Chapter 21 - The Holy Dragon Bahamut
Chapter 22 - The Final Battle
Chapter 23 - Destruction
Chapter 24 - To the Homeland...
Chapter 25 - Eternal Travelers
Chapter 26 - Alexander, King of the Holy Dragons
Final Chapter - We, Who Cannot See into Tomorrow...



But before we - that is, I - start, we're gonna need names. Namely (ha!), for our protagonist and his pet dragons. The default name for our hero is Byuu, so if you guys want I could stay with that, but don't be afraid to come up with some great names. I'm counting on you guys.



Oh by the way, there's a limit of eight characters and dragons, so keep that in mind.

True story: The very first thought in my mind when I saw this post was "What the hell is Bahamut Lagoon?" Now I shall know. And that's swell.

And you know everyone is going to pick "Pants", so I have a nice alternate: "Trousers"

You should name all your dragons after a specific theme, like types of hats.

Chaps
Coulottes
Highwaters
Shorts
Trunks
Slacks

I'm looking forward to playing this one. I tried to play it in high school using the DeJap patch, but I just couldn't. Can't remember exactly why I couldn't, but either the ROM was bugged or I just couldn't figure out what was going on. I'm leaning towards the latter, as I remember being freaked out that I couldn't figure out how to make my dragons work right in battle, and I just heard recently that they fight automatically...

I remember I named my munimuni dragon "Strabo" in honour of the only Terry Brooks character (dragon) I've ever liked.

If I'm not mistaken, Tomato worked on the Bahamut Lagoon translation, didn't he? He's the good soul plugging away at the Mother 3 translation as we speak.

This game is hard.

Between this and the Star Control II LP, I'm going to put off work forever times fifty. That's okay, I can eat fun.

Temporally Play? Don't we.. don't we do that anyway? Or does normal play involve some kind of spiritual interface?

Explain your game, Mr. Reel!

No pants. C'mon guys, I need stellar names here!

Yep, him and three others if I remember correctly. Glad to hear that he's still translating, though is he working with DeJap still or is this solo-work?

That's Engrish left over from the original ROM. It's supposed to be "Temporarily Play", I think.

Years ago I bought this game for 1000Y brand new at a dusty game shop in an Akihabara back alley. They had copies of it literally stacked to the ceiling, along with SD3 and Chrono Trigger (!) for the same price.

I never got beyond the intro sequence. Now I'll get to find out if that was a good decision!

I hate this game. It does so many things right and then falls flat on its face by being mind-numbingly easy, which coupled with the slow/long battles made it unplayable for me.

So this should be a cool LP, because I won't have to subject myself to that.

Strange, I don't remember it being too easy... how far did you get, by any chance?

I am dissatisfied.

How about Top and Bottom?

Oh fine, I'll call someone PANTS then.

Your small act of consolation has brought me so much happiness

I played Bahamut Lagoon for about two minutes before I decided I wasn't that interested. I love the art style, though. It's like it occupies some weird interval between FFVI and FFT.

This is actually the only game I've played much of in Japanese. Note that I understand no written Japanese, so feeding dragons was a hilariously random exercise. I think I only got halfway through or so. I really liked how elemental effects could alter the battlefield in ways that were tactically significant.

Uh, the rules specifically state that any nameable hero MUST BE NAMED PANTS.

Yeesh, you guys really like your pants, huh? Fine, I relent. The hero shall hereby be christened PANTS.

I still need dragon names though.

Chaps
Coulottes
Highwaters
Shorts
Trunks
Slacks

Or Briefs.

I dunno, six or seven missions. Most SRPGs are easy early on, it's true, and I'm kind of perpetually disinterested in the genre in general, but I did feel like I had already spent long enough playing it to say that it needed some challenge and I couldn't sit through it just for the visuals, music, and story, even if I really wanted to. And I only sort of wanted to.

Betelgeuse
Aldebaran
Vega
Gemma
Spica
Sol
Antares
Deneb
Canopus
Polaris
Altair
Bellatrix
Procyon
Rigel
Sirius

( click for more )

(This is a good theme for Ogre Battle 64, too)

(Or for a series of weapons in FFXII)

man i loved those swimsuits

These are also good names for dragons.

Tiramisu
Pudding
Caramel
Torte
Mousse
Cajeta
Taffy
Toffee
Marzipan
Pants
Nougat
Truffle
Bonbon

...how many characters do you need named, anyway?

Calzone
Amalfi
Formaggi
Sorrento
Vesuvio (that actually fits)
Marinara
Diavolo
Cipolla
Funghi
Tonno
Capriccio

I get kinda hungry.

EDIT: New idea...
Blanco
Negro
Amarillo
Azul
Verde
Rojo
Marron
Canoso
Naranja

I support naming them after food. In that line of thought, I nominate: Fanta.

Six.

FIGHTER
THIEF
Bl.BELT
Wh.MAGE
Bl.MAGE
RedMAGE