For sure idk how many times I've beaten it now. My fav character is kongol. Just too bad he's the worst. But may favorite team is hachel and meru

What other JRPGs would either of you recommend that are similar in overall quality?

Legend of dragoon is really my only experience with jrpg. I keep playing it because I played it a ton as a kid.

It's the only one I think I've played where the actual combat itself is interactive in the sense if you time the button presses you do extra hits or damage. Supposedly that mechanic was inspired by I think the paper mario rpg? Though I've never personally played it.

Kongol and Lloyd were probably my two fave chars from LoD

Its a shame that even when Lloyd is in the party you can't use him. Hes cool as hell. Kongol is great easy additions tons of damage and if you get a legend casque he's not made of wet paper

Honestly I wouldn't be against the idea of a remaster or a remake using a modern engine and maybe expanding upon the lore and adding some gameplay for Lloyd, but I'd be afraid that they would end up changing the gameplay from being turn-based and turning it into action combat. That or a sequel, prequel, or even a spin off in universe from Lloyd's perspective or something.

I would love a remaster that fixes the translation issues and expands and ideally offers more team customization. Removing dart as a required player would be cool

Honestly it's been so long since I've played it that I can't remember seeing translation issues. I would be for more customization as well. I can't remember does LoD have team-based combo attacks?

Nah its all individual attacks. The special dragoon button does cause all of them to transform simultaneously but they still attack individually. I just really want to be able to kick dart out of thr party lol.

He annoys you that much? I'm kidding ofc, but yeah I can understand that. I think FF7 also didn't allow the player to remove the main char from the party either. Even though sometimes it would've been nice to have the opportunity to do so.