Gears of Dragoon: Fragments of a New Era Reviews

Well, complaints first. You need to figure out the Drag n' Drop interface. Drag n' drop is how you do many critical things, such as equipping weapons, applying items, and populating menus with skills. It feels both byzantine and obtuse, but things go more smoothly once you've figured it out. Navigating in a dungeon can be painful until you find the relevant map. Monster fights are heavily influenced by elemental attributes. The strengths and weaknesses of an enemy can be read by left-clicking on the enemy, but this is also overly obscure. As far as I can tell, a strength/weakness rating for fire, say, of "B" means the enemy is resistant to fire, while a rating of "H" means the enemy is weak to fire. Unless I missed it in a tutorial, there's nothing to make this clear to you except experience. But all that said, once you've figured it out, this is an engaging, entertaining, and well-made dungeon crawler.