Dragon's Lair III Announcement and Demo

An article on Blue's News brings the happy news that a third game in the Dragon's Lair franchise is in the works. There are screens, a press release, and a demo of the game to be had. From the press release: "Dirk the Daring, the brave yet bumbling knight, is ready to venture back into the Lair in this adventure! The Evil Wizard Mordroc has again kidnapped the fair Princess Daphne and Dirk is her only hope. Save the princess, defeat Mordroc, and watch out for the treachery that lies at every step!" Good to know the genre hasn't changed since the last game.

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lame demo

[joe094287523459087]

i'll save you the effort of downloading the demo

it unzips to c:\dl3 and when you run it you get a little window about 400x600 that can be doubled or expanded to fullscreen

dirk is in a room with colored platforms that go up and down. it's mostly smoothly animated. you just hit L/R/U/D to move to the platform that blinks yellow. i made it across the chasm (about 15 moves) first try. it was very easy due to the blinking yellow. at the end the damsel's voice says "dragon wings! these will help you fly!" and it shows dirk "flying" (sort of waving his arms around, looked dumb) and going through a door.

not a very good bit of gaming, even for a huge fan of DL (which i am, i own the DL classic cdroms). if this is one of the better scenes in the game, don't expect much.

could be worse - at least it looked like animated video. the 3d RPG from a couple years ago was horrible.

At least get the code right if you make a joke

[Neuticle]

Sheesh for the love of All that is holy, Don't mod up the WRONG CODE!!!!!11oneone!11 It's:

UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A (SELECT for 2p) START

/nitpick
//lovingly caresses his NES