🎲【Tagin' Dragon】〖Squiggy Seven: First Impressions #043〗(NES First Impression Blind Review)《★★☆☆☆》

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Published on January 31, 2020 8:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J_gL7DXKdA

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Colorful Dragon (1989)

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Hey, you! You scragglin' for a tagglin'? You grippin' for a nippin? You fightin' for a bitin'? You crunchin' for a munchin'?

This is Tagin' Dragon, a simplisticish action puzzler for our one and only Nintendo Entertainment System. This is a game about one dragon-lion-rat and her quest to play tag with her friends. The problem in, this particular dragon's taggin involves dismembering her friends and leaving them bleeding out on the ground, so the main goal is to find more friends to play with.

Well, there's not a terrible amount more to say about this game than that really, hahah. All you do is eat the tails of some color-shifted versions of yourself. Now, the simplicity is not always a bad thing -- in fact, it's what makes arcade games the easily-accessible quarter stealers that they are -- but for me, those kind of games always fall a little short on console. I feel like they're best played in small bursts, and the longevity of the game is important to me. I know many people will disagree with me on this, and would prefer quickly jumping in a game with apparent mechanics that are well tuned and really tight for what they are, and I like it as well, just not as much as some grandiose RPG with a amazing story or an action-platformer with a sprawling world.

Also, I have no idea why, but I have a thing for mistakenly calling any arcade-style game a "puzzle game", which not only makes no sense, it also makes me sound dumb. I must have said that in about 10 or 15 videos over the years so far and I notice it every single time now, hahah.

So, when you see the rating for the game only being two stars, realize that a big portion of that is the longevity. The core gameplay is fun enough to throw on and play, and I can see you and a friend having some multiplayer fun with it for a few minutes at least. But that's where I start to sour on it -- I can't see you playing this with your buddy for three hours on a Saturday night.

What I could do is listen to this soundtrack for three hours on a Saturday night though, hahah. That's the grooviest tune since Stal, and I fsvzk with Stal hard.

Hmm, I guess that's all for now. It feels a little weird to end with so much ramble room left, but sometimes you don't need 5,000 characters to sum up an afternoon, although most of the time that's not true in my experience, hahah. Well, here's hoping Just A Water Bottle isn't disappointed at least. Shoutout to you, you Description crawler -- although I don't know if you'll be on a non-Mega Man Maker video. Although with you scurrying around in my Miscellania playlist, I suppose you could show up anywhere. I'm sorry, way too much of this description has now been about one person that's unrelated to the video, so I guess that's my cue to start wrapping this puppy up.

Hope you enjoyed the video friends, it was fun to do a Squiggy Seven: First Impression again. Thank you all for stopping by, Ice Dragon OP, Tagin' is spelled Taggin' if we're talking about Taggin' as in Tagging, and have a wonderful afternoon!

💛 Squiggs

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Colorful Dragon (Chinese: 變色龍; pinyin: Biànsèlóng; literally: 'Chameleon'), is a maze game developed and published by Sachen for the Nintendo Entertainment System on 1989 in Asia. Bunch Games later licensed the game for distribution in North America for a 1990 release, and published it as Tagin' Dragon.

Sachen republished Colorful Dragon in the multi-game cartridge Super Cartridge Version 6: 6-in-1.

In the game, the player controls a European dragon, and attempts to bite the tails off other European dragons. The longer a dragon's tail, the more bites required to defeat it. The game features 20 unique mazes.

Two players may play either competitively or cooperatively.


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Squiggy Seven: First Impressions is a series where I blind review random NES games in an effort to learn more about the hidden classics on the system. I have gotten into retro collecting for the NES and I am on the hunt for those games I've never played that I'm missing out on.

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You can find the full playlist for Squiggy Seven: First Impressions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lau1yrQ3oMQ&index=1&list=PLmx77jI3k0GEL5GVglvYHzoo0sdPQMbZo

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