Dragonborne

I really wanted to like this, but it just isn't for me. I'm two hours in and while the game isn't bad by any means it's just...dull. I'm having a very hard time convincing myself to keep going. There's a lot of moving boulder puzzles and fetch quests to find multiple items like dragon scales to enter a cave or golden dragons. There are also fetch quests like finding a cat that ran into a forest or bringing a guy and...

28 found this helpful, 2021-02-12

This game is quite literally a classic gameboy RPG. It feels like it was made when the gameboy had just came out. This is both good and bad, and as such I'd recommend caution when buying it. So if you loved the old gameboy RPGs, as in the very first ones, and want to check out something nostalgic then hit this up.

14 found this helpful, 2021-02-17

Dragonborne is a laughably badly made monochrome 2D retro pixel JRPG ripoff, like Final Fantasy but if it was really crap and badly written. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget...

3 found this helpful, 2022-10-13