Dragonsphere

Wow! What a surprise! Dragonsphere is one of the few point-and-click adventures released by the now defunct Microprose, along with Return of the Phantom, in order to jump on the CD-ROM bandwagon of those years. The game is really cute and charming, with nice pictorial graphics and peculiar digitized animations. What's not to like? Maybe voice-overs are not so special. But the story is interesting, well written and puzzles can be rather challenging at times, so it is absolutely worth playing. Thank you, GOG!

Overall, this was a pretty good game. It certainly was unique and had a captivating storyline, but overly repetitive gameplay. At times, I felt like I had to drag myself through the rest of the game. It also went on for a bit too long and the puzzles and minigames, which should have been an asset, were just as tedious as the gameplay itself. As a side note, I also wasn't fond of the game's soundtrack, but I'm super picky about those kind of things while others may not be.

Does not have the comedy of the best series of games of this type, the Monkey Island series. Graphics are average for 1994, so are SFX and music. This game used to be FREE on GOG though. Until some shill came along, bought the "rights", probably for nothing also. Probably just "assumed themselves the owner of the game" and started charging for it. A licence to print money. Except at just £4 a pop, and with the very low sales this forgotten title has, they won't print much. Honestly, do NOT buy. It was barely worth it when this game was one of the "free dozen" GOG gifted to all new users upon signup!

Giving a game 5 stars is not something I do often - and I confess that half of the fifth star is because GOG gives this game for free. And thank you for that GOG! "Dragonsphere" is a beautifully made point & click adventure with a fairly standard story in the beginning that very soon evolves into a rich tale of betrayal and unlikely heroes. The graphics are very well done (for standard VGA) and the music is just captivating. Plus, the plot has one of the greatest twists of that time. Highly recommended!

Heck yeah! I still own this game but unfortunately do't own one of those old floppy disk drives so the game is inaccessible...until now lol! Seriously though, this is one of the few adventure games I actually got interested as a young'n (let's face it, I was a bit restless bag then and anything recquiring more than 5 minutes of concentration owuld get left in our game stores' shelves). You can see from the screenshots that the visual style is kinda like Gabriel Knight, but with a touch more colour and a handdrawn feel to it. The adventure starts as you are sent on a quest to rid the world of a jerk mage that just can't wait to ruin the lives of everyone. The only negative aspect in this game I can think of is the time limit, which puts a lot of pressure on you to think quick and act even quicker. There's a lot of clever puzzles in this game, ones that I've yet to see in any other game (save for the stupid pixie puzzle, but more on that later). One example is actually having to learn a new language by picking up bits and pieces from conversations along the way and figuring out what words means what. After you've completed this task you are presented with a puzzle where you must succesfully ask for directions to a desert camp. Fail, and you'll see one of the games many deaths. There's another one where there's a group of different coloured pixies, and they all either tell a truth, a lie, or something that might or might not be a truth or a lie. Cross examining everything they say is fun at first, but if you fail to come up with a solution in under 15 minutes, you'll start to lose your sanity and feel inadequately equipped in the mental department to complete this game. thank god for game guides! But, it's not that hard. Every puzzle has a solution that usually makes sense, you just have to do a bit more of critical thinking and take a few deep breaths every now and then to make your way forward in this dangerous land. The game will surprise you with its story, but that's all I'm gonna say about it. I don't know about voice acting since I own the crappy version, but I hope it's good! With nothing more to say (at least nothing intelligent anyway) I'm gonna go pour myself a cup of joe and spend a sleepless night solving this game once and for all!