Princess Edge - Dragonstone

[b] Short Version: [/b]: *Cringe*. That is all. Buuut if you want more: Classic arcade style beat-em-up action through 5 slightly repetitive levels along with even more repetitive squealing from the main character, who wears a bikini... for reasons... -- Princess Edge: Dragonstone is a strange experience. The game plays like the token-eating side-scrolling beat-em-ups found in any arcade - extremely challenging, to the point where enemy attacks feel on the cheating side (nigh-unavoidable). Of course, you can try again as often as you want, so that's kind of moot. You alternate between your regular punches and a variety of special-meter-draining ranged energy attacks to defeat your opponents, which won't be an easy task. Unfortunately, that's about all that I can say on the positive side. With a mere 5 levels of repetitive action, the game feels like a demo version of a new arcade game which gave up before completion and instead decided to release the demo as is - only permanently enabling the squealing-bikini-girl-cheat-mode on the main character as a selling point. The mechanics for a decent game are mostly in place, the graphics aren't terrible (despite the awkward…

A nice little tribute to Golden Axe! :) Combat is fast and fluid, plus the game controls really well with a controller. You have to make good use of the 3 planes you can dash into (Example: normal grunts you can just run up to them and slash them, but spear grunts will most likely hit you first if you do not use the planes to get behind them). Bosses are kind of cheap, but that is just part of the charm of a game like this (Pay attention to the trailer on how to make big damage to them ^^). Some nice touches the game has: - Heroine is basically an anime version of the female character from the first Golden Axe (This is WHY she has that outfit on). - The mount works almost identical to the ones on Golden Axe (Get knock out of the once and you have a chance to get on them again, get knock twice and you lose the mount). - When you beat a stage a map shows up the next stage (like you know what game). - When the heroine loses a life, she stays KO on the ground while the HP of the next life fills up and then she gets up again (a nice touch instead of the generic "flashes dead and appears again" that most games like this has). - While short, it actually is pretty challenging on t…

Got to the end within an hour. Great gameplay but way too short in my opinion. It's up to you if you think that's worth the asking price

If the controls weren't bad, (for example, you aren't able to move with the d-pad while playing with a controller) this game would be fine. Even though most of the bosses and a couple of the enemies are pure annoyance to deal with, they wouldn't be nearly as annoying if the controls weren't bad. The 3 lanes system used in this game also ruins it so sadly I just can't recommend this game, despite wanting to.

when i saw this game was inspired by golden axe i was excited to play. i love golden axe and am a huge fan of those games (well the first 2 anyway) but when i tried it out i was sorely let down. the controls are weird, you have to do a button combo just to switch between the three plans instead of just pushing up or down (like golden axe did) the attacks have a pitiful range and you have to be pretty much in headbutting distance for it to hit. i had to spam the magic button to actually get anywhere however when it comes to the bad guys hitting you they have fantastic range. i wanted to be able to recommend this game but sadly i cant. and even though it says its inspired by golden axe i would say its an embarrisment to golden axe.

This game seems like a good idea, but for whatever reason, I can only move left or right. I cannot go up or down as is needed in a 2.5D game, but the combat and enemies seem pretty solid.