Dragon Scroll: The Darkish Dragon Reborn (ドラゴンスクロール 甦りし魔竜), launched 12/4/1987, developed and revealed by Konami
It is a top-down motion RPG/journey recreation, primarily within the fashion of Valkyrie, Zelda, and different video games which have been coated up to now. Like these video games you might be simply plopped down at the start line with no clues or indication of what you must do. The fundamental story is that thieves stole these books that have been protecting the Chrome Dragon imprisoned, and thus the Gold Dragon introduced a hero into the world to gather the books and seal the Dragon.
You stroll round utilizing a employees to shoot little magic assaults. You acquire XP, however no cash. At stage ups, you possibly can acquire extra max HP, MP, or the power to make use of stronger staffs (you probably have discovered them). Dying sends you again to the start of the present map space you might be in and halves your magic factors.
Listed below are the great and dangerous factors from the Sport wiki web page, together with my very own impressions. First the great factors:
- The graphics are good for a recreation of its period
- Good BGM
- The big areas make the world appear expansive
- The controls are responsive and straightforward to make use of (I might agree with this)
And now the dangerous factors:
- The secrets and techniques within the recreation are too arduous to search out. (That is I believe the worst facet of the sport — even simply within the half that I performed, it’s a must to stand between statues for some time for issues to seem however for those who stand barely within the unsuitable spot it doesn’t occur. You even have to make use of magic on random bushes and rocks to progress. There are hints you get when beating sure monsters, however they solely present imprecise pointers, and generally have unsuitable info.)
- The big areas are too massive; there’s nothing to search out in most of them (this can be a widespread drawback with these early video games although)
- Within the late recreation, it’s a must to grind ranges to have the ability to survive the harm flooring it’s a must to stroll by way of
- It’s too arduous to recuperate your HP (though you possibly can simply die to get it again)
- The problem is low as a result of whenever you hit enemies they freeze for some time so you possibly can simply preserve urgent the button to win
- The textual content is all in hiragana and arduous to learn.
This final level is complicated since many different video games of the period use katakana along with the hiragana — whereas this isn’t unattainable to learn it’s not snug.
I really feel like that is virtually a superb recreation however the inscrutability of the puzzles/secrets and techniques makes it arduous to play. And because the wiki identified, you probably have a walkthrough to resolve all of the puzzles the sport is method too straightforward as a result of the fight isn’t particularly troublesome. These early video games usually have unsolvable puzzles — is that this all descended from the recognition of Tower of Druaga?
I’ve 5 extra of those video games from 1987, however hopefully my subsequent put up shall be Growlanser. I’m enjoying Dragon Quest IX now and having enjoyable with it.
