I was very surprised to find a game that played a bit like Panzer Dragoon with a 360 degrees camera, that was also an On Rails Shooter game! I am a huge fan of On Rails games, and so far only 3 games (including this one) plays closely to Panzer Dragoon series. If you want to know those games, and see my On Rail Shooter list, I will have it in the comment section of this Review.
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Anyways, I will admit, it is a sort of "Panzer Dragoon at Home" type of game. However, I found myself really enjoying it! There is little in enemy variety, being it mostly dragons with ballista and some with melee attacks, or some that do a mixture of the two. There are moments where Turrets with ballista attached to them come up as well. And then at the end of every mission, there is a Boss that looks and plays differently from each other.
The Story is intriguing and easy to understand as you play along, however it is basing it off of the book series that I haven't read, but I may find myself trying to read someday. There is even bonus content if you manage to answer a special Quiz section of "Fill in the blanks" from owning the books.
Throughout the levels there are secret things to shoot down, unlocking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cosmetics for the dragon you play as. (Currently, I've only found 3, and haven't been able to locate the others yet.) And if you beat all levels with a dragon you'll unlock a new dragon to play the campaign once again. However, if you wish to skip the grind or support the game makers, there is an in-game store to purchase the gems to pay for dragons, or skins. Take note that you can earn a small amount of gems after beating missions.
After beating a level, you gain a small amount of gems and coins. The gems are used to unlock dragons and skins, while the coins are practically "skill points", giving you options for buffing your dragon's stats like reload speed, healing, flight speed, more damage, etc. You can earn coins based on defeating the boss, if you didn't use any revives, and defeating most of the enemies encountered. 3 coins per mission.
The whole campaign can be beaten in about less than 1.5 hours with a death or two, but the replay-ability of unlocking skins and dragons can add more to it.
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I did have some prior issues. I did download the demo sometime ago, and when I got the full game. The menu wasn't in English, I couldn't play the tutorial, and the Final Boss bugged out. However, with deleting the Demo, and "Reset my Progress" in the settings, it fixed it all. So if you encounter some issues if you downloaded the demo, try that.
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Other than that, I'm happy with what I got from this, and I recommend it to those who really like On-Rails Games (like me). And if you're unsure about it, there is a Free Demo you can try, it will basically be the majority of your experience you'll face in the full game, so if you like it, give it a buy!
