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This game too perfectly titled
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Mar 30, 2010
Member since Jan 2008
8 out of 12 gamers (67%) found this review helpful
It never fails. When they make a hit movie, they just have to make a third rate video game just to get more money from the audience.
How to Train Your Dragon, the Video Game, is part Street Fighter, part Nintendogs, and part basic adventure. In this game, you are given a dragon and have to train it to compete in a tournament.
But you have to keep the dragon healthy and happy by giving it stuff, stuff that you find all over town and the Wild Zone
Once your dragon is sort of powerful, you compete in the tournament and win it. Game over, right.
Not here. A second tournament opens up, but you have to train your dragon even more, get a second dragon and put it through the same repetitive training exercises as the first.
Oh, and you have to gather up twice as many items to keep them healthy and happy.
See where I’m going with this? The game can get tedious very quickly; you’ll be doing the same things over and over and over again. You will have to (eventually) get four dragons, put all four of them through the exact same training exercises, and go out wandering about gathering a vast amount of items for those dragons.
The fighting isn’t that fun either; it’s just a button mashing, Wiimote waving exercise. Breathing fire isn’t recommended because as you are getting a powerful blast, your opponent can either dodge the attack or hit you first (you can’t block and generate the fire blast at the same time.) The universal blocking can turn these fights bland and boring. Adding a second player in arcade mode doesn’t improve this game very much.
Sure, some of the five mini games are interesting, and you can make vast adjustments to your dragon’s appearance with different body parts with a vast array of colors to paint those body parts.
But the core game play will try your patience. How to Train Your Dragon, the Wii version needs some more adventure in it to kick it up a notch. SKIP IT
How to Train Your Dragon, the Video Game, is part Street Fighter, part Nintendogs, and part basic adventure. In this game, you are given a dragon and have to train it to compete in a tournament.
But you have to keep the dragon healthy and happy by giving it stuff, stuff that you find all over town and the Wild Zone
Once your dragon is sort of powerful, you compete in the tournament and win it. Game over, right.
Not here. A second tournament opens up, but you have to train your dragon even more, get a second dragon and put it through the same repetitive training exercises as the first.
Oh, and you have to gather up twice as many items to keep them healthy and happy.
See where I’m going with this? The game can get tedious very quickly; you’ll be doing the same things over and over and over again. You will have to (eventually) get four dragons, put all four of them through the exact same training exercises, and go out wandering about gathering a vast amount of items for those dragons.
The fighting isn’t that fun either; it’s just a button mashing, Wiimote waving exercise. Breathing fire isn’t recommended because as you are getting a powerful blast, your opponent can either dodge the attack or hit you first (you can’t block and generate the fire blast at the same time.) The universal blocking can turn these fights bland and boring. Adding a second player in arcade mode doesn’t improve this game very much.
Sure, some of the five mini games are interesting, and you can make vast adjustments to your dragon’s appearance with different body parts with a vast array of colors to paint those body parts.
But the core game play will try your patience. How to Train Your Dragon, the Wii version needs some more adventure in it to kick it up a notch. SKIP IT
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