Posted on: September 26, 2018
TricksyTopstitch
Verified ownerGames: 70 Reviews: 6
So worth the money!
As others have pointed out, Dracula 3 - Path of the Dragon is a positively fantastic adventure game. I would fully rate that 4.5 if not maybe 5 stars; but since this package is the whole trilogy, I had to go with 4 stars. I actually started with Dracula 3 as it was on sale many years ago at a games & books shop. I am a huge adventure game fan, but not super in to the whole vampire lore thing... but something about Path of the Dragon really caught my attention and I said "what the heck, why not," and I'm glad I did. With that being said, the other two games are certainly not bad by any means, but for me were only played to get the whole story. I played through titles 1 & 2 once each. Path of the Dragon, on the other hand, is so brilliant that I replay it almost annually. The music, the characters, and the story are all fantastic with nice graphics that may not be cutting edge, but do an excellent job of setting the eerie atmosphere. The puzzles in the trilogy are quite good, but especially so in 3 - just challenging enough to keep you interested and moderately stymied, but not so frustrating that you want to chuck the whole game. There is also a lot of history referenced in 3 about the events leading up to World War II and some of the societal causes and contributing factors. For a player like me, a good dash of history makes any game all the better. Get this. As my fellow adventure game fans and even just fans of these great old games can attest, what makes a game good is the story and gameplay. The rest is just the icing on the cake: nice, but not the true substance.
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