Another apt review, love to see Dragon Valor getting some appreciation all of these years on! That background music is great too, props to your friend. Thanks for the kind words at the end, Addy - happy to have been of some assistance, and always glad to be appreciated by another passionate gamer. 😊
Dragon Valor was badass. My friend got me to play it just for the "I cannot believe this game is real and it's actually pretty good" sort of thing. I even found moves and combos he never tried. For example, he didn't know there was a charge attack. lol
RIP water bottle Never heard of this game but it looks great! The use of color is really nice - it could easily have been rendered into murky mush, but the brightly-colored characters make it feel quite vibrant.
Always happy to see more new content about this game, an absolutely underrated Gem that was a big part of my childhood, especially the soundtrack. Got me obsessed with enjoying long boss battles and enjoying fighting dragons in video games a little too much, couldn't be happier for it.
I always love when a game has wonky stakes, like in Dragon's Dogma where the dragon steals the main characters heart to forge a death pact with him, and then years pass and the intro to the game is the Dragon going "Oh, come on. Come fight me already!" because you've just been ignoring him for ages. The dragon's more like the Chickenhawk from Foghorn Leghorn.
I hate to be the guy who corrects you RPGLover, but there's no evidence of years passing in the intro. I've been literally playing through the game again recently to clean up things I never did in my 200+ hours and while your character is knocked out, the villagers act as if the dragon just attacked not long ago, like previous day not long ago. People are still wounded; you're even still wearing the tattered fisherman's clothes that you had when the dragon stole your heart. Maybe you're referring to the dragon awakening cutscene? Your character isn't important at that point in the story though. They've never met the dragon considering the dragon hasn't been around for about 50 years at that point and is just now waking up. It was sleeping after its last encounter when Duke Edmun was the one to confront it. So the introduction takes place after that. Or maybe you're talking about the opening cutscene where you play as the premade party and fight the chimera in the Tainted Mountain? That's also not your character. That character's fate is revealed in the true ending to the game after completing the post-game quest. Minor spoiler: that prologue sequence takes place more than 1000 years before the actual story of Dragon's Dogma. If you're talking about the point where the dragon actually kidnaps whoever the game determined to be your beloved and tells you to come to the Tainted Mountain, where all fights with the dragon have to take place, then that's not the intro, that's endgame. There's a clear 4 or so points of no return where you can't complete previous quests before that happens. It's sort of true that you've been ignoring the dragon at that point, though really you've been trying to get permission to travel to the Tainted Mountain in the first place. Duke Edmun, knowing the truth of his encounter with the dragon, isn't exactly the most helpful guy when it comes down to it. It's his firm belief that no man can actually vanquish the dragon. Of course, he has to at least pretend to let you try, and there are other things to worry about like the cult gaining power, but you've essentially just been running errands for him so that he'll hopefully open up the mountain fortress for you to confront the dragon. The game definitely has wonky stakes to start since you don't know the significance of the Arisen or the pawns or what the dragon's whole deal is until almost the end of the game. Your initial motivation is kind of a mix of prophecy (The dragon chose you. You have to fight the dragon now!) and 50 Cent's Blood on the Gransys ("Bitch stole my heart!") while in the meantime running errands that at least make you stronger like "Root out the cult," "help make the roads safer," and "gather evidence for the fat merchant's trial; hope you get him off so that you can get the best outcome for a different quest you'll have to run on two different playthroughs because he has the only golden idol in the game which is, itself, linked to the best outcome of a quest you can only do while he's free and not on trial." I'm definitely not slightly miffed about that last one because I screwed it up my first few playthroughs.
Another apt review, love to see Dragon Valor getting some appreciation all of these years on! That background music is great too, props to your friend.
Thanks for the kind words at the end, Addy - happy to have been of some assistance, and always glad to be appreciated by another passionate gamer. 😊
Dragon Valor was badass. My friend got me to play it just for the "I cannot believe this game is real and it's actually pretty good" sort of thing. I even found moves and combos he never tried. For example, he didn't know there was a charge attack. lol
RIP water bottle
Never heard of this game but it looks great! The use of color is really nice - it could easily have been rendered into murky mush, but the brightly-colored characters make it feel quite vibrant.
They contrast pretty well with the environments
Always happy to see more new content about this game, an absolutely underrated Gem that was a big part of my childhood, especially the soundtrack.
Got me obsessed with enjoying long boss battles and enjoying fighting dragons in video games a little too much, couldn't be happier for it.
I always love when a game has wonky stakes, like in Dragon's Dogma where the dragon steals the main characters heart to forge a death pact with him, and then years pass and the intro to the game is the Dragon going "Oh, come on. Come fight me already!" because you've just been ignoring him for ages. The dragon's more like the Chickenhawk from Foghorn Leghorn.
I hate to be the guy who corrects you RPGLover, but there's no evidence of years passing in the intro. I've been literally playing through the game again recently to clean up things I never did in my 200+ hours and while your character is knocked out, the villagers act as if the dragon just attacked not long ago, like previous day not long ago. People are still wounded; you're even still wearing the tattered fisherman's clothes that you had when the dragon stole your heart.
Maybe you're referring to the dragon awakening cutscene? Your character isn't important at that point in the story though. They've never met the dragon considering the dragon hasn't been around for about 50 years at that point and is just now waking up. It was sleeping after its last encounter when Duke Edmun was the one to confront it. So the introduction takes place after that.
Or maybe you're talking about the opening cutscene where you play as the premade party and fight the chimera in the Tainted Mountain? That's also not your character. That character's fate is revealed in the true ending to the game after completing the post-game quest. Minor spoiler: that prologue sequence takes place more than 1000 years before the actual story of Dragon's Dogma.
If you're talking about the point where the dragon actually kidnaps whoever the game determined to be your beloved and tells you to come to the Tainted Mountain, where all fights with the dragon have to take place, then that's not the intro, that's endgame. There's a clear 4 or so points of no return where you can't complete previous quests before that happens. It's sort of true that you've been ignoring the dragon at that point, though really you've been trying to get permission to travel to the Tainted Mountain in the first place. Duke Edmun, knowing the truth of his encounter with the dragon, isn't exactly the most helpful guy when it comes down to it. It's his firm belief that no man can actually vanquish the dragon. Of course, he has to at least pretend to let you try, and there are other things to worry about like the cult gaining power, but you've essentially just been running errands for him so that he'll hopefully open up the mountain fortress for you to confront the dragon.
The game definitely has wonky stakes to start since you don't know the significance of the Arisen or the pawns or what the dragon's whole deal is until almost the end of the game. Your initial motivation is kind of a mix of prophecy (The dragon chose you. You have to fight the dragon now!) and 50 Cent's Blood on the Gransys ("Bitch stole my heart!") while in the meantime running errands that at least make you stronger like "Root out the cult," "help make the roads safer," and "gather evidence for the fat merchant's trial; hope you get him off so that you can get the best outcome for a different quest you'll have to run on two different playthroughs because he has the only golden idol in the game which is, itself, linked to the best outcome of a quest you can only do while he's free and not on trial." I'm definitely not slightly miffed about that last one because I screwed it up my first few playthroughs.
THE BEST GAME WITH THE BEST MUSIC NAMCO HAS EVER MADE. I AM SO INTO A REMAKE OF THE GAME!
I played this when I was a kid. :3 Always enjoyed it! Perhaps I should return to it for my retro stream days sometime.
I hope you enjoy revisiting it
If I had known about this game back in the day, I would have loved it! I need to play it now!
I can't believe my eyes when I see someone makes a video about this severely underrated gem. Dragon Valor is an addictive game and my childhood.
Glad it brought you something of value
This is one of my childhood favorites
This game is A total hidden gem
I think i played this game at a sleep over many years ago
I hope it's a fond memory
I love you.