Dragon Lore: The Legend Begins

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Posted on: November 15, 2013

zuhutay

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Games: 380 Reviews: 33

A masterpiece

If you manage to look at this game beyond its dated graphics and its little faults (fights already felt awkward in 95), you will find a fabulous adventure with a romantic plot and a very interesting system of moral assessment of your deeds. Everything is well-balanced. The difficulty is great, I finished this game without cheating, which is rare. The characters you will meet are colourful and there are no pages and pages of talking. The settings to explore are nice and varied, with a magnificent castle. The different atmospheres are beautifully rendered thanks to a huge work on sound effects. Actually, this game is amongst the first generation of games using the CD-Rom technology and it fully benefitted from it. This game was very innovative in many respects. I can still remember the introduction and the main theme. One of the games that left me the strongest impression ever.

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Posted on: November 24, 2013

ThomasPierson

Games: 1058 Reviews: 3

Painful and nearly unplayable

This game is a great example of what happens when all the inspiration for a game is in it's graphic design. Even today, the game looks good and it easy to see the fantastic visual design choices. The only reason I completed this game when it was originally released was because I wanted to see all the environments. Beyond that, the control scheme is broken, the "combat" is ridiculously bad and the story is chiche and overwrought with wood dialogue. Time has not improved this game and while I won't get rid of my original CDs for the game, I won't be buying it to play in the modern world, either.

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Posted on: November 16, 2013

mephinia

Games: 211 Reviews: 6

Adventure/rpg fest

This game once kept me awake very late at nights - even though graphics were slightly dated year from release, the story and multiple outcomes kept me interested. I also remember it for its music tunes , some while annoying were unforgettable ( land of tiny beings ) others were amazing. Its more adventure than rpg and has puzzles in it that made me once buy guide ( which i kept as memory ) and now i am getting it once again. If you diehard adventure / rpg fan and tolerate old graphics ( why else you be here ) you almost guaranteed to enjoy this one.

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Posted on: April 28, 2014

Krensada

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Games: 89 Reviews: 24

The legend of blocky hair

You are Werner Von Wallenrod. Farm boy, Cow herder, and potato peeler. You are sent by your foster father on a quest to become a great hero. Cause it turns out you, with the most unfortunate of names are in fact the chosen one! Charged with the task of defeating the bad guy, whose name has even more syllables than yours! and saving the kingdom from a great evil. or something like that. also there are dragons. and everything is better with dragons in it. This is one of the more kooky puzzle/adventure games out there. Myst with a battle system if you can call it that. So grab your walking stick, rope, armor, shield and twizzler sword, and set off for 16 bit color adventure!

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Posted on: November 3, 2014

eliasdelatorre

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Games: 22 Reviews: 1

Worth trying! For the sake of old times.

I remember having this game bundled with my old HP Vectra about 15-17 years ago. At the time its graphincs, its cinematics and mostly its somewhat dark story appealead to me like nothing else. Once playing the game you will find struggling just to make the clicks and pointing to work. The battles were almost random to win since, even to day, you didn't really know where to click to injure damage. The gameplay is kind of bad, really. And you don't have a menu to click, you have to read the manual to know that the menu appears when you click on one of the corners of the screen. And so on... But I downloaded this game just for the sake of the old times. I remember being stuck on certain part of the game, and never making it to the second CD, so I'm planning to play it again and find what is the ending for this. I also had a copy on spanish, and the voices were really cheese. Oh jeez, those were the good times! Anyway, I'll probably recommend this game just to get a feeling of those RPG-ish games that started to appear around 20 years ago, it was a crossover between action, RPG and puzzles, lots of puzzles.

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