Retro Carousel : The NES Train - Episode 5 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons : Dragonstrike
1Retro Carousel is a journey of unlimited experiences as we play games from a particular console from A-Z. Doesn't matter how good, bad, ugly or indifferent, we enjoy this ride of unexpected experiences. Enjoy the ride!
Train : Nintendo Entertainment System
Destination : Advanced Dungeons and Dragons : Dragonstrike
DragonStrike is a 1990 video game based on the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy tabletop role-playing game..
DragonStrike is a flight simulator in a high fantasy setting. The player character is a knight who flies on the back of a metallic dragon equipped with a lance and various magic items (among other things a magic orb that acts as a radar in the game). The player's dragon can use its recharging magical breath to attack and can also attack with its claws or bite if the dragon passes closely above enemies (likewise, should the dragon pass closely beneath enemies, the player character might attack with his sword). Opponents in the game include evil dragons with and without riders and other flying monsters such as manticores, wyverns, sivak draconians and beholderkin known as gas spores. Flying too close to the ground is another hazard for the player as enemy archers are present in some areas.
Completing successful missions provides the character with more hit points and the opportunity to obtain a more powerful dragon. Depending on what dragon the player chooses (between a bronze, a silver, or a gold dragon) the ending and missions become slightly different.
A game of the same title was published by Pony Canyon for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 Despite an almost identical title screen and box cover, it is noticeably different from versions of the game for other systems: instead of being a first-person flight simulator, it is a top-down scrolling shooter, with only 14 missions instead of the original 40. The only aspect in common with the original computer game is the plot, which was also reduced.
The game is set in Krynn, world of the Dragonlance saga, during the War of the Lance. The main character is a young knight of Solamnia who progressively climbs the ranks of knighthood and is assigned to different dragon mounts. The story starts halfway through the action of the previous title, War of the Lance, after the metallic dragons joined the fight alongside the Knights of Solamnia, and it ends roughly at the same time, with a major victory of the forces of the god Paladine.
On the other hand, the main character of the NES remake is a dragon without any rider. The action starts at the same time as the original, but it ends later, featuring an ending that is different from the one in the novels and in the tabletop modules.
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