![]() ![]() BE A DRAGON – Experience the freedom of flight and the power of Thunder and his friends.Stoke the flames in your chest and take to the skies – the future of the Night Lights, and all dragon kind, is depending on you! Only you can bring peace back to the inter-connected realms of ice, fire, darkness, and beyond. Level up Thunder and his friends to become the ultimate dragon heroes by choosing new unlockable skills and powers. Use your speed, tail, and claws to defeat the worthy foes and gigantic dragon bosses that stand in your way. It’s a crazy addition, completely fumbled.Unleash your inner dragon and fly beyond the Hidden World, on your fiery adventure to rescue Thunder’s family and save the dragon kingdoms!įeel the wind against your scales as you soar and dive through unexplored realms. Rather than feeling like we found something secret and cool, we felt punished. It kicks you out of the level, and forces you to play it all over again to find the correct blue gem that unlocks the next level in the sequence. This orange gem is the hidden exit in the Hidden World, but finding it DOESN’T progress the game. Find the orange one, and you unlock a Challenge Mode for the level. ![]() You actually have two choices of beacon to end the level: one blue and one orange. If we’re getting into flaws, there’s also a curious duality with the levels, and it tripped us up more than we would have liked. Instead, you feel compelled to keep the most recently unlocked dragon upgraded. It would have enticed us to spread our unlocks a little more than we did. We wished DreamWorks Dragons: Legends of the Nine Realms had a little bit of LEGO in it, requiring you to use ALL dragons across the level. ![]() On the ice levels, you will need to regularly use Plowhorn, as ice crystals are throughout and need to be melted. Each level has a dragon that is dominant. We wish it were more difficult, actually. Choosing which dragon to upgrade at a given time becomes a difficult, painful choice. As mentioned, there are combos, but also increased health, power boosts and even new buttons to play with. The upgrade trees for each dragon are great, and contain far more depth than we expected. ![]() They spent more time than we’d like trying to destroy decorative crystals, and it was all noisy with the damn things. Watching our girls play DreamWorks Dragons: Legends of the Nine Realms, though, it’s clear that there are too many. They represent the end of the level (you need to reach a crystal beacon that leads you onward), the destructibles, the collectibles and the levels are absolutely covered in decorative versions of them. By purchasing upgrades on your serpent, you can also unlock several combos, which gives a bit of pattern to the button-mashing.ĭreamWorks Dragons: Legends of the Nine Realms absolutely loves crystals. On B you have a projectile weapon, which can also be held for a larger version, or a channelled version, depending on your dragon. Our seven year-old kept to these and got to the end of the game with only the occasional passing of the pad to Dad. You have X and Y light and heavy melee attacks which will, if you fancy it, get you through the game without much issue. Occasionally, a dragon will swoop down and bite or fireball you, so you get to call on your arsenal. The gameplay is a fifty-fifty split of combat and exploration. These are zoomed out, near birds-eye view levels, with you traipsing around vibrant and chunky levels that could have been 3D printed into playsets for Christmas. As mentioned, the levels will be familiar with anyone who jumped into Skylanders while it burned brightly for five years or so. The journey takes the form of five worlds, each with five levels (the last level per world being a boss battle with a dragon many times your size). This story doesn’t deepen or change over the course of the game. It’s a wisp of a story, barely even there: earthquakes are racking the Hidden World, and Thunder’s dragonmates, the other Night Lights, have been chased away by a pack of Skrills. None of the human characters have found the Hidden World (although the main character, Tom, narrates here), so it’s a slice-of-life tale for Thunder and the other dragons who live there. The story takes place moments before the beginning of the series, as best we can tell. ![]()
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