The Handler of Dragons

It is beyond obvious that this old-school low-budget indie game is a one-man job. To begin with, there is no way to manually save so you have to keep repeating the same lengthy sections over and over again. This is because attacks from enemies do a ton of damage and blocking and spell casting are almost completely ineffective. Graphics also look pretty bad in some areas, especially in the city where bloom is cranked extremely high with no way to disable that washes everything out in light tones of brown. Voice acting as mentioned by others is dreadful and is obviously computer generated. There are also constant frame rate drops unless you lower the graphic settings way down. In addition, there are lots of invisible walls and your character has a tendency to get stuck in several places. I also found that adjusting the volume and mouse sensitivity didn't seem to do anything. Quest markers also seem to disappear in-game and trying to follow the map to quest markers was also very confusing. I cannot recommend this game at all.

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Have fun figuring out the very complicated controls and menus. The dialogue can't be serious. It must be satire or parody. It was slightly amusing. The voice acting is monotonous but is that part of the joke? I didn't play very long, I found the prompts and text hard to read. Was that a 3? G? &? E? Hard to tell with small and cursive text.

what is this and why did I pay money for this? I need to make better choices in my life....

The only reason i can't recommend this game is it's price for what it is. otherwise it's got a nice message in its "story" and game play isn't to bad. its not great but not bad. i'd say if you wanna give this game a go, wait to see if it goes on sale for $1 that's what i bought it for. I beat the game in 2 hours and some change. There's no voice acting. The dev used TTS for the voices and it doesn't sound great, There's no character customization, hardly any loot, you cant really do all that much with the dragons if you go the "good guy" route. idk what happens if you "be the bad guy" i didn't play through again for that route. What i can give the game is that even at $12 you still spend more time in the game then a real life arcade for that money lol (but please do not spend $12 on this game its not worth it) from what i understand from others also is the game is abandoned. so keep that in mind as well.

Edit 10.04.2024: I believe enough is enough and I have to swtich this to Negative. It didn't leave EA, none of those tiny promises for features were implemented (or no news of such being done), no news for 3 years and all dev profiles are dead for 2 years. I'm not mad as I knew what I paid for but it doesn't mean I'll sit around and support such practices. Abandonware is abandonware regardless of what I think about it. The below is now...for archival purposes. __________________________ Edit 08.07.2022: This may be an abandonware at this point given it was supposed to be in EA for just 3 months tops and since a few days after releaste there is radio silence from the dev on both steam news and forums. Please read carefully and be very mindful of what you're paying for. From which way should I bite it to be honest... It's so easy to bash a huge game for disproportionately bad designs, bugs and whatnot but then there are games like this - a one man's passion project which is still smaller than what we receive these days under the "Indie" banner; but let's give it a try! At first glance it may seem like one of those pesky asset flip garbage games that offer nothing but stealing yo…