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Dragon Island (Release Version)

Release version of Dragon Island! Follow Henry to the Dragon Island, and create some unique memories! · By kulplant

My Steam Review. If it was not Regionbloacked.

A topic by Berek07 created Mar 13, 2024 Views: 796
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Before you buy: 

a) Play the Demo. You can get it on Steam itself of Itch.io.

b) Read this Review. ;)

c) For everyone who never played a game made by RenPy or Unity: 

d) Press TAB to skip already seen dialog. Use Mousewheel to rollback or rollforth the dialog. Before you do that: Save the game. Most of the crashes have been taken care of by the patch.


Review

The Demo already sets the tone, that this game is not just some Slice of Life or Dating Novel, but an investigation. The game is basicly Ace Attorny light + easier, a single big case other three and half days. On Top of that you got some erotic Scenes (a few of them sfw) to uncover. It is a Gay Furry/Bara Novel after all!

The gameplay is simple: You walk around the Island (by clicking on the Map) and talk to the other character. On very few occasion you can find some hints just by entering a room or listening on a door. There are a handful quicktime Events and Mini-Quest. If the controls or response are clunky, just rollback or save before the Event to practice. Buttonmash your Mouse also helps.  It's possible to cheese some timed events by rolling back. In the evening you got "Questiontime". Similiar to Ace Attorny, you can "hold it" and occasionally present Evidence from your Notes. Depending on how you do you get diffrent Endings. The firrst playthrough took me two days, roughly 14 hours playtime.

The Art and Music is atmospheric, beautiyful and fits very well. There a dozens of Scene you can unlock. With the multitude of Endings, it got quite some replay value. Do not expect many nsfw cgi Scences. 

I liked the game a lot but i also understand the many disappointed downvotes that may follow, some examples:

- For a game that costs 15€, there are still grammatical and spelling errors. Like: Asien Developer tried to finish the game with google translator before the deadline. For a non-native english Speaker that is not a big deal. Will be solved by future patches anyway.

- "The Plot and the Villain are "cartoonish" "; Correct. And if you had played the Demo, you would have known. One of the Characters even pointed that out that the villains had behaving like a badly written cartoon character.

- "It feels impossible to get a good ending without a guide": Incorrect. I got the good ending on my second playthrough without any guides. (Although some savescumming on several occasions). The game does hold your hand in the evening Questiontime, making it slightly easier than Ace Attorney. But it is not fully linear. If you missed crucial investigation, the game cannot help you to fix it. On very rare occasion you can try another angle though.

- "Only 30 saves....": Thats quite limited for a game made with RenPy. I cannot argue against that. But at least there is a Gallery with unlocked Scene.

Fazit:

I found the Game very enjoyable (8 out of 10) and i got what i expectad and wanted. It is an lighthearted Investigation Game; a bunch of Loveable and sexy characters pited against each other tying to win a silly game of uncovering the "bad guy". 

The Big Downside for most people: The Price of nearly 16$.  If the game would have been six/seven gamedays long instead of just three, with more outdoor activities and character developmont ->  Absolutly worth it. 

My Recommendation:

- Playing the Demo is a basicly a must. 

- Maybe wait for more Patches until April?