With the major success of the original Dragon's Lair, along with the moderate success of Space Ace, a sequel was bound to be made at some point, but it would take some time before that sequel was fully developed. Nevertheless, 8 years after the release of the original game, the sequel, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp was released, which would basically be the same game as the original, except now with time travel!
In terms of quality, I think I would consider this game on the same level as the original game, but for personal preference, I prefer this game, primarily because of the time travel element, which allows for many different creative settings and scenarios to take place. Aside from that, there isn't too much else to make this game stand out from its predecessors.
The story is pretty much the same as the original, except this time with TIME TRAVEL, the animation, music, and voice acting is once again absolutely incredible, even more so than that of the original game, and the control and gameplay is pretty much exactly the same as the original, being one big series of quick time events that you need to react to just in time to succeed, and is just as hard here as it has always been before.
This time around, instead of being randomly sent through a labyrinth in a castle, much like Space Ace, it is all one linear sequence, which does make the game somewhat easier than the original, but this time around, there is a little more added to provide some more challenge. And by that, I mean there are now treasures that you can collect, where they will appear for a split second during a quick time event, and you have to press the correct button in time to collect it, and then move on with the stage.
If I'm being honest, I'm not the biggest fan of this addition. Not only is it literally a blink-or-miss-it moment with all of these treasures, where you have to be on the dot in order to get them, but these treasures are REQUIRED in order to beat the game. If you don't get them all by the last level of the game, it will send you all the way back to the beginning, where you will have to do the whole thing again. Sure, it is a bit of variety for this kind of game, but I'd be better off without it.
Overall, once again, while the animation, music, and voice acting is still amazing, the game is something that I would rather just watch rather than play, even if I would consider it SLIGHTLY better then the original Dragon's Lair. What can I say, time travel is just cool.
Game #82
In terms of quality, I think I would consider this game on the same level as the original game, but for personal preference, I prefer this game, primarily because of the time travel element, which allows for many different creative settings and scenarios to take place. Aside from that, there isn't too much else to make this game stand out from its predecessors.
The story is pretty much the same as the original, except this time with TIME TRAVEL, the animation, music, and voice acting is once again absolutely incredible, even more so than that of the original game, and the control and gameplay is pretty much exactly the same as the original, being one big series of quick time events that you need to react to just in time to succeed, and is just as hard here as it has always been before.
This time around, instead of being randomly sent through a labyrinth in a castle, much like Space Ace, it is all one linear sequence, which does make the game somewhat easier than the original, but this time around, there is a little more added to provide some more challenge. And by that, I mean there are now treasures that you can collect, where they will appear for a split second during a quick time event, and you have to press the correct button in time to collect it, and then move on with the stage.
If I'm being honest, I'm not the biggest fan of this addition. Not only is it literally a blink-or-miss-it moment with all of these treasures, where you have to be on the dot in order to get them, but these treasures are REQUIRED in order to beat the game. If you don't get them all by the last level of the game, it will send you all the way back to the beginning, where you will have to do the whole thing again. Sure, it is a bit of variety for this kind of game, but I'd be better off without it.
Overall, once again, while the animation, music, and voice acting is still amazing, the game is something that I would rather just watch rather than play, even if I would consider it SLIGHTLY better then the original Dragon's Lair. What can I say, time travel is just cool.
Game #82