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Dragon's Lair continues to RULE!
I've been playing this game for a couple days now and I must say that it definitely preserves the Dragon's Lair experience. The graphics are sharp, the puzzles are fun, but what is most amazing about this game is that the developers have retained the original "look and feel" of the original Dragon's Lair. There are many scenes within the game that are 3D replicas of the original... for example, the black knight scene (very well done in my opinion) and the ropes scene. I look at this game as an absolute work of art (as I do with the original arcade version) and I would encourage everyone to pick it up. The $$$ price-tag is a bargain.

The only complaint I have thus far is that the default controls are fairly awkward, but since they are configurable, I guess it is really a mute point. I am still trying to get used to the controls, but I'm sure that I will in time.

Pick this one up! I've been waiting for it for over a year... it was worth the wait!!!

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One of the best games I've played in a long time.
After playing this game for one night, I already love it. I feel like I'm playing inside a beautiful Disney movie. The 3D environment textured in the cartoon style, and the 2D cel animation makes this game truly unique. The soundtrack and sound effects also give this game an animated movie-like quality. You can tell a lot of talent went into producing this game.

Besides the incredible audio and visuals, the game itself is so much fun. It's got a great sense of humor and just the game play in general makes you want to keep going. I played for an hour and a half, and had no idea where the time went. Besides that, I really like the concept of the mana cell which activates special magical things throughout the castle.

And Dragon's Lair fans definetly will not be disappointed. There's even a documentary about the history of Dragon's Lair and how the newest version was made (like a DVD special feature).

As far as the game controls, I really don't find it much different from the controls of any other 3D PC game. I use w-a-s-d for movement, and the mouse for looking and shooting. The ONLY frustrating thing is that at some points, the mouse control is lost and you only can use the keyboard to navigate, which isn't always intuitive.

But other than that, this game is great. If you get this game, you won't be disappointed.

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Sweet Nostalgia...
...but still has some of the old problems.

This game is actually more entertaining than I would have expected. I liked the original Dragon's Lair game, so I purchased this one as well. Of course, the game now is somewhat different, especially since the original game was so limited. I gotta say that they did a good job at carrying over the old look and feel though. This game basically is a platform-puzzle game. Of course, this is the game that invented cell shading, and the graphical style is great.

The bad news is that this game is really not quite up to today's standards. This is especially true for the controls. This game has by far the worst controls that I have seen in any computer game in a long time (probably since C64 days...).I have customized my controls a lot (I am now using the FPS-style WASD keys), but it is still horrible. Especially since one uses camera movement most of the time to turn the character the right direction. For some odd reason, the ability to turn the camera is lost every so often, which means you have to control the character entirely with the keyboard. Argh! It's almost like playing a bad pac-man clone! Often, it is hard to move Dork.. ah... Dirk accurately. One often falls off edges for no reason other than the controls not working right. On top of that, the whole game is not very responsive. You jump off a rope and try to draw the sword to quickly engage the enemy, but nothing happens. C'mon, people, DirectX's DirectInput technology really isn't rocket science! This is just sloppyness. This game needs more polish!

On the other hand of course, crappy controls probably are 50% of the true Dragon's Lair feeling, so maybe some people will overlook this problem. ;-)

I wasn't sure whether to give this game 3 or 4 stars (or maybe even less?). I went for 4, because I think fan's of the original game will get some entertainment out of this title. If you have never played Dragon's Lair before, or do not have fond memories of it, you may want to think twice before you get this one...