Dragon's Lair Reviews

I loved this game so much! It was hard yes, but despite all the deaths this game is more than worth it. Though yeah, the price is a bit much for this and the other games in the pack so it might be best to wait for a sale, but the game itself is super fun, especially after the first playthrough. There are a couple glitches though, as the cool patch they gave for quality of life has, at least with the other games, messed with the timings and broke some gameplay, and I think broke some death animations as I noticed when getting the max score run and the animation for missing the very last input was very wrong, so thank goodness for the watch game option so you can see all the animations regardless of glitches. I did end up getting the max score achievement and no deaths achievements with a few tries, so it isn't gamebreaking, unlike Space Ace sadly, find my review there to see why and how to fix it. But yeah, if you get this game, it is super fun, and I highly recommend you play without the move guide, as the move guide just makes you focus on that instead of seeing the gorgeous visuals which tell you how to react in their own special way.

The were many historical reviews about the game and it its unusual tech for the 80's I tried to play it just to be in touch with the classics. And I can't find the process pleasing. The animations are beatiful, but short and don't combine well. The button press timing are very short and almost unplayable without the hints. I wonder what a cash grab it was back in the 80's arcades. Near the end I stuck with "9 platform bug" ( see the descussions) and can't finish the game.

A fun retro FMV game, but it's buggy. Screen freezes occasionally, but the really irritating bug freezes the screen, followed by the score counter spinning up. When restarting the game at that point, the saved game is lost.