Customer Reviews

Dragon's Lair

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Dragon's Lair. What a standout in the arcades. It's lazerdisc gameplay was basically a hit-the-right-button kind of thing. If you don't, Dirk would end up dying. It was really simple and sort of a memory thing, but Dragon's Lair proved to be a good game in the arcades. The NES version, on the other hand, is something in which the less we talk about it, the better. It's a side-scroller rather than a lazerdisc game, but it's a totally bombarded one.

The graphics are really great for its time, and the sound effects and music are decent, too. But the one thing that kept this game from ever scoring any higher, is the control and gameplay.

In the first level, you must go up to the bridge to have a dragon pop out. You must kill the dragon, but it's nearly impossible. There's only one way to ever kill it, and it takes so much patience. By the way, you must be extremely careful in this game. If you make one bad move, you're dead. That's because the controls are so delayed. The graphics and animations really show off, but this is the case in which it shows off TOO MUCH. The environment in the game would have crumbing platforms and enemies, so you must act REALLY fast.

Other than the controls are the enemies themselves. They mostly kill you in one hit, despite there being a HEALTH BAR. Yeah, that's right. A health bar in a game with one-hit kills. Very few enemies actually just hurt you slightly.

Overall, it's a delayed mess-up of the good ol' arcade game's name. Stay away from it.