Dark Cloud seemed to have unusually long load times that varied making me think there was a problem with the disc, memory card or something internal in my PS2. I've never had such weird inconsistent loads on a PS2 game before. I say inconsistent because every time I came up to the surface and the game had to load the town area, it would either come up in a normal few seconds or take several minutes. Sometimes this would happen when opening a sphere in the dungeon as well. So I think it's something strange, but I'm going to see if others have had this problem with this game.


