Haven't heard of Dragon's Lair?! Well, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon! Originally released in the summer of 1983, Dragon's Lair has solidified itself as a cultural icon in gaming.
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Beautiful artwork, horrible game.
Amazing presentation, tech-wise was the next step in laserdisc since Astron Belt and has legendary visuals by Don Bluth, it's a shame the game isn't fun. Same repetitive events and it just becomes trial and error and memorization, there's almost no indicators other than a brief flash of a couple seconds and it's mind numbingly brainless to play. Just go watch a playthrough on YouTube this isn't worth fucking playing.
I don't know what to say... I'm just glad to have played this game on Sega-CD with the checkpoints instead of discovering it on Arcade in 1983. I would have lost so much money on that game.
We all know the game is awfully hard and that without this level of difficulty, the game takes like 11 minutes to complete. But, let's remember it was the way Arcade games were working... the objective was to make us pay. We can hate that as much as we want, but all the games were basically using a similar system.
Let's just remember that Dragon's Lair invented the Quick Time Event and just for that, it deserves much more than a 1 star rate. Of course it could have been easier, but it would have not became such a legend without this difficulty.
Also, with some practice, you can do it in a few hours.
We all know the game is awfully hard and that without this level of difficulty, the game takes like 11 minutes to complete. But, let's remember it was the way Arcade games were working... the objective was to make us pay. We can hate that as much as we want, but all the games were basically using a similar system.
Let's just remember that Dragon's Lair invented the Quick Time Event and just for that, it deserves much more than a 1 star rate. Of course it could have been easier, but it would have not became such a legend without this difficulty.
Also, with some practice, you can do it in a few hours.
Hours of progress, 15% done
Don Bluth animations packaged in an innovative new meld of gameplay and animation.While it's just a sequence of quick time events (before that term was coined), it was incredible unique for its time. I think it also previewed how players would develop a stronger sense of immersion into a cinematic story by getting to control parts of that story through the character. In a sense it defined one of the key aspects of video games that set it apart from movies and tv shows.
One of those games that's on every platform ever, everybody knows about, and nobody actually wants to play. Just watch it online