Slashdot Mirror
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.
There seems to be no mention of Don Bluth's involvement in the game. It seems to be a DVD Video disk with no platform specific code written for it. So, the big question is how good will the story and animation be without Don Bluth???
You'd think that you would be just a little leery of letting your princess walk around alone after the first time she gets kidnapped. But letting her go out after getting taken twice? It's like an open invitation!
Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
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.
Here's what it is: video captures of somebody playing the Dragon's Lair 3D game from 2002 (which was a Tomb Raider style game) which are then used in the same manner as the animations in the original Dragon's Lair game - namely, you make a decision, and based on that decision, a movie plays which either shows you dying or moving toward another decision point.
You can get the PC version of "Dragon's Lair 3D" for about 7 bucks used on Amazon. The game got poor reviews and I think this must be part of an effort to recoup some $$$. (Personally, I loved "Dragon's Lair 3D", but I was among the few.)
"Dragon's Lair 3" is basically "Dragon's Lair 3D" without the latter's main selling point - being able to fully control the character and move around in three dimensions.
I heard you can win the game by simply doing the following: UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT LEFT RIGHT RIGHT A B START
I seem to remember that there was one (The Curse of Mordread?), and it was completed alongside DL2. However, the market had changed before it came out, where the Dragon's Lair games had basically become "has-beens", so they couldn't do anything with it. The site that carries the old DL emulator might have more info.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
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
"Cheeze it!" - Bender