Good, interesting game. Too short, and at times too easy. (contains plot spoilers)
Rygar: The Battle of Argus is a fun, if somewhat clichéd game. You play as a great warrior with some sort of amnesia, who serves a princess that, less than five minutes into the storyline, gets kidnapped. Your weapon is something called a 'Diskarmor' a shield with spikes on a chain. It eventually gains three different fighting types: The first one being a straight, normal speed, long-range attack, the second being a good range, slow, sweeping attack, and the last being a short range, fast attack, and looks like you just punch the enemy with your shield. Each shield can be upgraded three times, and has a powerful creature that can be summoned, using less energy for each level it is upgraded, that will do an attacking animation before disappearing. The combat relies more on button mashing, with the only real strategy being when to know what fighting style to use at what time. Though the game gives you the ability to block and the ability to slide at some point in the game, the block is somewhat of a joke and the slide is primarily useful for navigating through the levels than anything else.
The levels in this game ranges from ancient ruins, to a portal between worlds with floating blocks of earth, which will require a lot of platform jumping to get through. Navigation is fairly simple, as any door that you need to unlock is obviously marked, with the way to unlock them usually only a few steps or jumps away. Graphics are fine, though obviously dated.
The story is rather simple, Titans are evil monsters led by the Fallen God (or something like that) the blood of Titans can inhabit stone structures and is still alive, while anyone who eats the flesh of a Titan will become a Demon, and gain great power, while also giving their soul away to the Fallen God and becoming its loyal follower, like it or not. The main Antagonists are a woman who lost her son in a war a long time ago with your country, and a man who seeks revenge against your country for betraying him long ago. The past behind the Diskarmors and the followers of the Fallen God are eventually revealed through papers your character will find, but that you must force yourself to read by checking your inventory. While the story is clichéd and confusing at first, there is a lot to read in the papers you will find that will help make sense, while slowly revealing a mystery from several years ago, as well as the intent behind some of the main characters you will face against.
The bosses are fun and exciting most of the time, but other times are a joke. While most of the boss battles were very challenging and required many tries, the end boss, the Fallen God himself, took only one try and less than ten minutes to kill.
Overall, the game is a classic rpg hack-and-slash adventure with a clichéd storyline with confusing myths that eventually gains respect if you are willing to find and read all the papers. Bosses that are either really tough or really easy, and graphics and fighting style good enough to keep you interested, but far from great. I beat the game in less than 8 hours after I bought it, but found it to be more than worth the time I put into it, if not the money. I highly recommend you play the game, but rent or borrow it if you can. It is an interesting and exciting adventure, but easy and short.