As crazy hard as you remember
posted by rogenjemi (PLAINVILLE, CT) Feb 23, 2011
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If you were 5 or older in the 1980s, that "Strange Game" in your local arcade, the "the game where you played a movie", Dragons Lair is not a mystery to you.
If you are not in the above category, this compilation has got to seem like one of the quirkiest offerings on the Wii platform.
I'm not going to go into the history lesson for those people(that's what the internets are for) but I'll explain some of the features of the game in case you're not sure if you want to click that "rent it" button.
In the first game, you can play the original version 'as is' from the Arcade cabinet, or a 'Director's Cut', were a few "extra scenes" can be played through. Also, you can set the response time; easy - you get about two-and-a-half seconds for an input, or hard - you get one second exactly before the scene kills you off.
Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp, the only option is is to play to the original ending in the game, or an alternate ending they apparently scrapped.
In the obligatory Sci-fi version Space Ace, you have 3 difficulties to chose from; Cadet - the bare minimum of scenes gets you to the end, Captain - a few extra scenes are required(some of which may seem familiar) to save the girl, and Ace, where you must pass every scene forwards and backwards to reach the end.
Lastly, all three games have four settings adjustable in the option menu, but really the only one that matters is Lives(3, 5, or INFINITE!).
In Conclusion, even though the sound quality seems not as great as I remember, all the LaserDisk quality(asterisk chuckle asterisk) visuals and animation are as top-notch as you remember. Definitely worth a rent for your fond memories of frustration. And if you don't have any, give it a rent to experience a small video game history lesson, to further appreciate how far the medium has come since the heyday of the local Arcade.
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