Posted on: September 28, 2020

PrinceThrakhath

Games: 2670 Reviews: 3

Avoid unless you are after nostalgia

I never had a chance to play Panzer Dragon back in the days and always thought it looked fun. So when I saw there was a new PC version I went for it, although $20 felt a bit pricy for such an old game. Unfortunately, after having cleared the game once I have to say that content wise it is perhaps worth $2 to me. I can understand if people who played it in the past feel nostalgic, but for someone who has never played these games there is just nothing there. The game play is almost fun for the first level but goes downhill from there. Graphics are initially pretty but becomes more and more boring the further the game progresses. Controls are awkward and convoluted. The story and cutcense are uninspiring. The animations are stiff, stiff, stiff and lifeless (look at the facial expression and artefacts on the face of the protagonist). Is the game challenging? Perhaps. I could not determine if it was lack of skills or just difficulty to control. but I still cleared the game in the first go. At some point during gameplay shooting went from manually key spamming to auto-fire and I have no clue how that happened, neither does the in game menus reveal anything. I took a long time until I realised I could lock targets and send bursts of missiles at them (perhaps level 3 or 4) and even longer time (until about level 5 or 6) that I realised I could move my dragon up, down, left, right. It is a pitty the game does not include a tutorial because I think badly needs one.

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Posted on: August 27, 2023

Nick_Speetzen

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Games: 460 Reviews: 13

Please do Zwei. Or hell, even Saga

The sequel is just so much better as a game imo, and I would pay more for it as DLC in the same engine or something. More PC options would always be good of course, and Saga would be the obvious go to given how insanely expensive and iffy to emulate it is, but I have heardr the source code is lost to time, so it'd have to be rebuilt or de-compiled. Oh lord can you imagine? lol Anyway, this is great for a sale price, but it would be an amazing package if it included Zwei. Lemme pay you more Sega/MegaPixel/Forever Entertainment!

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Posted on: January 19, 2022

trusteft

Verified owner

Games: 1968 Reviews: 123

Good Arcade experience

Pure mid to late 90s arcade rail shooter, updated for modern systems with upgraded looks. I played it last night for my twitch stream and was expecting something longer, but then again I didn't know it was going to be a pure arcade game. Even the lives you have are called credits, which you can win more when you finish a level, depending on how well you played. I played with the mouse and kb while there are more options. You control the camera angle for shooting with the mouse, but you HAVE to use the keyboard too to swap around the four quadrants, forwards, backwards, left and right. Think of it as picking different turrets only that you have one person. There is a radar helping you showing you where the enemies are and even the danger level of them, with red being the higher. The enemy shoots you and you can shoot the enemy missiles down, if you want to eventually defeat the whole game. You see the actual movement of your flying dragon is very limited. It is an on rail shooter after all. You can avoid some enemies, obstacles, missiles, but for the most part you are a sitting duck than a flying dragon. I am not complaining, just explaining how it plays. Each credit you have is good for one life and you can't replenish your health. You earn more credits as you play. I managed to defeat the game on my first go, at normal difficulty. It felt the right amount of challenge, as soon as you learn the game. To shoot the enemies you have two ways of shooting, one click for each shot, or hold the fire button to lock on targets and release to shoot them with homing missiles at the same time. Most targets can be done with the easier way (lock), but enemy missiles and at least one boss, you have to use the click per shot way. It's not easy, but it is not very hard either. The game is very well balanced and totally worth buying IMO, even though the length of a single "campaign" is around an hour length. Here is my stream, uploaded on yt. https://youtu.be/IknCOJyBTiY

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Posted on: June 17, 2022

Vargas78

Verified owner

Games: 1151 Reviews: 60

Pretty good remake

Got it today on the sales and feel it was a pretty great bargain. The game looks quite beautiful and the gameplay is decent but use keyboard and mouse is my advice. Normally i would opt for controller for this kind of game but the keyboard and mouse definitely felt better.

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Posted on: June 23, 2022

seanwood7777

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Games: 584 Reviews: 95

Good remake of a classic rail shooter

Never played the original, I've seen some gameplay of it though, and this is more or less a 1 to 1 remake of the original, generally the same game with better graphics and smoother gameplay. (Make sure to set the control setting to modern in options so you can move independently of aiming/shooting, I didn't realize the default mode was classic controls, so I mostly just used the mouse to do everything my first playthrough, although it did get the job done.) This game is pretty linear, even for a rail shooter, but what's there is good. I still think Star Fox 64 is the prime example of how to do a 3D schmup/rail shooter, what with branching paths and all, as well as some other elements. PD came out quite a while before SF64 so I'll definitely cut it some slack for being a bit basic, it's still a fun game.

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