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This sets up a straightforward and satisfying gameplay loop. Then Drake learns to use fallen enemies’ souls to restore health and slow down time. The first mission after the tutorial doesn’t provide any opportunities to regain health, giving the impression the game is a lot trickier than it really is. Taking obvious inspiration from The Matrix and John Woo’s Hong Kong action films, Drake can leap about with a gun in each hand (which are fired independently with the left and right mouse buttons) and never bothers to reload during a shootout (instead pulling out a new gun from the apparently bottomless pockets of his trench coat). With the added precision of mouse and keyboard controls doing away with the console version’s most severe gameplay flaw, I’d say the answer is yes, absolutely. As I think it’s unlikely that many people considering a purchase are unaware of this, the question is less whether the game is a classic and more whether it’s playable enough to satisfy as a curiosity. Posted: 9 March, 2018 Drake of the 99 Dragons achieved infamy on the Xbox for its unintentionally hilarious story, low production values and a busted auto-aim that caused its titular protagonist to flail his arms around in every direction. So, if the price seems right to you, I seriously recommend giving Drake a chance.
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That being said, there honestly deserves to be something like a speedrunning community surrounding this game, and folk who are so inclined to play games for speed will hopefully find additional value in it.
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In terms of "dollars-to-playtime," a playthrough will probably take you roughly three to four hours.
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Don't get me wrong: There are still a fair share of remaining flaws that are just inherent to the game's design, but most of them fall under the category of being "charmingly bad." If you can look past the rough edges, there's a genuine bit of fun to be had with Drake, and a satisfaction that comes with mastering the controls / learning how to clear the game as quickly and efficiently as possible. Many of the most notorious issues associated with the game (janky auto-aiming, path-finding and scripting issues, et cetera) are present only in the Xbox version of the game, leaving you with a more or less fully-functional product on PC.
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Even if it is just a repackaging of the 2004 PC release, it's nice to finally have it in an easily-accessible format.
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And yet, there's something beautiful about catching a glimpse of what this game wants to be, and how good it could be, given the opportunity, and when you catch that high, it's a frustratingly hard game to put down.Ī full history / review of the game can be found on the Bad Game Hall of Fame: ĭrake of the 99 Dragons has gotten a bum rap for the better part of fifteen years, and I am genuinely happy to see made available on Steam. It's awful, has a bunch of potentially game-breaking bugs, and there are some boss fights that seem nigh-unwinnable without exploits. I'm grateful for the opportunity to play this game in the modern era, to play a game that had a bunch of great ideas - none of which quite manage to come through. Maybe there's a case to be made about bringing back old games that weren't any good, that have a history of being just awful maybe archival should only be considered for "good" games. In fact, it probably won't click with you for a good ten levels, when you get a fair amount of your basic powerset and a basic competency for the core mechanics.īut when it clicks, there's something oddly satisfying about purposefully engaging with a bad game. It's also a bizarre game brimming with potential waiting for any opportunity to escape through the many cracks in its VERY flawed exterior, and it's hard to explain exactly how this is the case. It's also one of the funniest games out there - entirely accidentally. Look, yes, it's essentially a buggy, unfinished Max Payne clone. No, it isn't good, and it's almost just as bad as you've heard.