Just from reading the title of this post, you might be already aware as to what this game is all about. Though I would not go as far as to call it a blatant clone. “Dragon: A Game About a Dragon” is a pretty neat little metroidvania, featuring a good amount of platforming, puzzles and some fairly good boss fights. You play as a dragon who has to save his girlfriend from the King, who happens to be her father, unwilling to let his daughter date a different species. The plot and the overall aesthetic is a mixture of fantasy meets modern, all made in hand- drawn, crayon aesthetic, art bucket. It is, in my opinion, quite the breath of fresh air.
The game is of a low difficulty, although there are various achievements to spice things up a bit for those of us who have chosen to neglect the existence of the sun and that of a separate room dedicated to keeping up with our personal hygiene. Jokes aside, this game goes really well with afternoon tea and biscuits! it’s quite relaxing and it has a good amount of areas for one to explore. The puzzles are pretty easy and can be approached openly even by a chicken.
There are a lot of things that you can do as a dragon in this game. You can claw humans into puffs of smoke, breathe various types of fire, which will further enhance your puzzle- solving experience and fly, I MEAN, hover in the air for a short distance before you get tired and eventually fall. Let me say “Demon Crest” again, just for the sake of saying it and making a reminder that the hovering ability in it is similar to the one in this game.
There are numerous items that can be found scattered all over the levels, which will improve the abilities and stats of the dragon. There is also an upgrade system, which requires money that you can acquire from slaying foes or by finding rare jewels. Wherein “Dragon: A Game About a Dragon” is of low difficulty, the upgrade system and the items further obliterate any potential obstacles that the game might try to indulge.
If there is something that I enjoyed, it was the Wizard Tower and the Spaceship levels. I don’t know, they were pretty fun and quite enjoyable. The bosses in this game have some pretty good patterns and I had absolutely great time doing the no- hit achievements for pretty much every one of them.
One of the achievements seems to be broken, so here’s a video of me doing it the way it is supposed to be done [?]
It’s a good game if you want to get yourself or someone else into the metroidvania genre. It’s also prefect if you are having a nervous breakdown.