Review: Dragon’s Lair Trilogy (Nintendo Switch)

In Dragon’s Lair, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon!

Pros:

• Remastered cartoon graphics.
• 6.9GB Download size.
• Three games in one- Dragons Lair, Dragons Lair 2 and Space Ace.
• Original cabinet art.
• Watch game option for each game.
• Tutorial.
• Dragons Lair has 2 modes- Arcade edition or Home edition.
• Dragons Lair has 2 difficulties- Easy and Hard.
• Options (universal) lives (3 or 5), Move beeps, Move guide and arcade cabinet border on/off.
• Dragon’s Lair Trilogy supports Analog and d-pad.
• Reflex based action game.
• Local leaderboards.
• Dragons Lair 2 has two modes- Directors cut or Original mode.
• Space Ace has 2 difficulties- Cadet and Captain Ace.
• Continue- Carry on at the level you died on.
• Can easily jump between games.
• Dragon’s Lair Trilogy is QTE the game.
• The score shows on screen.
• Notifications on where to move/action can be integrated into the cartoon or may have on-screen prompts.
• Difficult.
• Dragon’s Lair Trilogy looks fantastic.
• Controls are just directions and an action button.

Cons:

• Difficult.
• Hard to see/know what to do.
• A lot of black screen loading.
• Huge learning curve.
• Little replayability.
• Dragon’s Lair Trilogy has no online leaderboards.