Dragon's Lair Reviews

you need lightning reflexes to get anywhere. At least it's not costing a quid a go though

I love the game and played it a lot in the arcade. This version has some bugs where sometimes the controller stops working. I hate to down vote this game but it just doesn't work a lot of times.

This is recommended to those who understand what this game is. To put it simply, it's an animated short film where you have to perfectly execute the prompts on-screen (in the modern version) to win the game. In the classic version, there are no prompts and you have to figure it out, which is damn near impossible unless you're an ancient wizard that was alive in 1983 and knew the secrets of this archaic "game". That being said, as a big fan of Don Bluth, this is enjoyable just to mess around with and see his stellar animation. While this game is a neat relic of its time, I don't know how much that will matter to younger audiences when confronted with the frustration of its "gameplay".

I was impressed how playing with the hints turned on would train the player to memorize the precise timing necessary to play at the original hard mode. i.e. If you can beat the game on hard mode with the hints turned off, you have beaten the game as if you were standing in an arcade in the 1980s. So, if you remember being fascinated yet frustrated at it back then, give it a try again with the hints turned on. Because the overall game's animation from start to a successful finish doesn't take hours upon hours, Dragon's Lair can be beaten with hints turned on and THEN reattempted with hints turned off without you having to dedicate grueling weeks, months, or years to achieve your goal. On the minus side, even when the hints are turned off, the overlay is still faintly visible in the lower center of the screen.

7 / 10 Still has its charm, I prefer this to its successors which I find too overloaded to enjoy, but the pacing here is just right. Only worth it at a discount, and worth playing with friends or on a rainy day.