Dragon Is Dead Preview (Steam Early Access)
Dragon Is Dead Preview, is a hack-and-slash, roguelite action platformer. It offers tons of customization fun with different character skill trees and legendary equipment. Overcome repeated deaths to defeat Guernian, the leader of the Dark Dragons.
Dragon Is Dead Preview Pros:
- Beautiful graphics.
- 1.97GB download size.
- Full controller support.
- Accessibility options – camera shake, damage text, status effect text, and life bar text.
- 3 save slots.
- Hack and slash roguelike gameplay.
- 2D perspective with full 3D backdrops.
- Hold down the attack button to do a combo of attacks.
- A handy notification pops up when you have cleared an area of enemies.
- Find loot chests.
- Enemies can drop loot.
- At the end of an area, you choose one of two chests and then one of three rewards which can range from first boosts to buffs.
- Bertio is a merchant and will sell you a randomized piece of equipment of your choosing. You can also sell unwanted items and gear to him.
- If a slot is empty you will auto-equip the correct item for that slot.
- Two currencies in the game – cash and gems.
- Find powerful ruby keys for the big loot chests.
- The mini-map will show enemies and any points of interest.
- Earn EXP and level up to get points to put into the massive skill tree and unlock new attacks and abilities.
- Every item or piece of gear will show its stats and let you compare it with the currently equipped item.
- Find and buy Artifacts and essences to add even more buffs to your character.
- It is possible to buy the right to reset your skill tree so you can try other routes.
- You get a map of the world and you work your way through it and some places let you revisit them.
- Massive boss fight encounters.
- You can unlock and change characters when starting a new run.
- You keep inventory items and gems upon death but lose EXP, levels, gold, and any equipped items and gear.
- Engrave weapons at the blacksmith to add buffs and abilities to the weapon.
- Decent loading times.
- Fast-paced Hack and slash combat.
- Very addictive as you keep wanting to see what’s next.
- Does create a real loot lust.
- Combat resources build as you fight and this is used when you use core skills.
- Dash lets you move fast both on land and in air, it also lets you dodge attacks and ignore damage.
- Four World difficulties with only one available at the start.
- Lore and tips show on the loading screens.
- Very playable due to its simple controls, great combat, and excellent level design.
- You can use different elements like freezing, burning, or lightning added to your attacks.
Dragon Is Dead Preview Cons:
- No Steam achievements.
- Cannot remap the controls for either the controller or the mouse and keyboard.
- Doesn’t have any graphics settings at all.
- Can’t see the screen properly as the big solid HUD takes up way too much space.
- No way to move the camera to see a bit around your character.
- You don’t actually pause the game.
- No voice work.
- Missing a lot of explanations and tutorials on some of the mechanics.
- The tutorial pop-ups can be late to show you something as you have already worked it out yourself.
- Small text with no options for it.
- Can be hard to work out what a platform is.
- Climbing ladders is a real pain and is not smooth, accidentally press a button and you fall, the animation is slow so you never get the timing right of getting off the ladder and attacking.
- The skill tree takes a while to get good.
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Dragon Is Dead:
Developer: Team Suneat
Publisher: PM Studios
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