![]() If you die, you have to start the level again, so that is a good tick in the challenge box. Most of all, it’s actually fun to pick up and play just for a short blast, with each level taking around five minutes from start to finish. The commentary in the cutscenes in the in-game language is pretty cool as well.īut how does it play, I hear you ask? The short answer is very well: the game is smooth, the action just the right level of frantic, and it is very challenging on the harder difficulties. The sounds are as you’d expect also screeches from your dragon when it gets smacked with a rock or lots of “pew-pew” effects from the two weapons you have. The action is never massively frantic, so the Xbox One I was playing on never felt stretched, but on the harder difficulties there’s certainly enough happening on screen to keep your hands full. Graphically, Panzer Dragoon: Remake is certainly a good looking thing, with silky smooth shooting action taking place across a number of very different worlds. Again, this soon becomes second nature, and not even the tricky bosses that swing and lurch around the sky to try and break your lock will escape your steely gaze. Luckily there is a radar in the top right of the screen that shows where the enemies are coming from, and it is but the work of a moment to swing the camera into the correct position. ![]() The enemies are certainly a varied bunch, all with different attack patterns and projectiles, and can swarm the poor dragon from all sides. Along with “LB” and “RB” which rotate the camera 90 degrees in either direction, these are all the buttons that you need to know.Īs you’d expect, there are a wide variety of things to aim at and shoot in this Remake, ranging from tiny fish-looking things right up to giant bosses at the end of the levels. I found out “A” allows you to lock on to enemies and shoot them down, and it wasn’t until the end of the fifth level, when I kept dying to the boss, that I discovered that “B” is also a shoot button, which doesn’t lock on and instead shoots where the sight is aimed. You are flung into battle on the back of a dragon, and there are absolutely no clues as to what you are supposed to do. Now, the first thing that I have to mention is the tutorial, or lack thereof. This intro is way too long for its own good, and appears to be rendered in the original game’s engine, as the animation and look of the cutscene is extremely retro, and had me flashing back to the ’90s. This man then promptly pops his clogs, and our hero takes his place on the back of the dragon. Luckily, the roof falls on the creature, squishing it, and our hero runs outside to meet a man on a blue dragon. Chasing after them, he seems to startle some scorpion-looking things, which he proceeds to chase into a cave before being attacked by a large creature. ![]() The game starts out a little mysteriously, seeing our hero riding what appears to be a dinosaur through a canyon, before he spies some battleship/hot air balloons in the sky. Continuing the fashion for game remakes that has seen recent entries such as the likes of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered, Panzer Dragoon has now been updated and dragged, kicking and screaming, into the modern generation.
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