Dragon's Lair Kinect now available
Dragon's Lair Kinect has been released today for the Xbox Live Marketplace, giving you all the fun and frustration of the original game with full-body motion input. Hooray!
Most of us remember being nine years old and seeing Dragon's Lair for the first time. The graphics, you guys! But the Don Bluth animated quest was less like a game and more like an animated short with occasional button prompts to keep it going, so the magic quickly faded. Years later, Digital Leisure is on its own kind of quest: to port Dragon's Lair to as many platforms as humanly possible. This time, it's Kinect's turn.
The game is now available on Xbox Live Arcade, with Kinect input commands. The announcement promises the full-body motion controls allow you to approximate the motions of swinging a sword, grappling ropes, and avoiding obstacles. Presumably it gives you a little more time than the original game did.
It also packs in leaderboards, achievements, and Avatar items. Plus, if you're very committed for some reason, today also sees the release of several Dragon's Lair items on the Marketplace like props and a theme, most running at about $3 each. Dragon's Lair Kinect will cost you $10 (800 MSP).
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Dragon's Lair Kinect has been released today for the Xbox Live Marketplace, giving you all the fun and frustration of the original game with full-body motion input. Hooray!-
Come on Space Ace..
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I was fascinated with this game as a kid, by the time I was old enough to play it was out of the arcades.
I've heard so many say that it's actually a bad game.-
It was pretty basic. But looked awesome (go-go laser disc!) and was basically a test of your ability to memorize the patterns and timings of each scene. Don Bluth knew how to set the tone of each area. I think if Bluth did a medieval theme animated film today it would be pretty.. well.. the design would be great, story dark and probably not a box office smash, but I'd love it anyways.
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If you compare it to real time games I am sure you could say its poor. But if you saw it in arcades around 83-84 it literally destroyed everything else out in terms of looks and sound. At the time you had few games that had voice (sinistar,gorf and a few others) and this had a full soundtrack that was well thought out. Not only does it have amazing character design it has amazing animation that I would call movie level quality. The gameplay is basic but there is still a art to watching someone play it who knows the patterns and someone who dies ever ten seconds because they don't. The sound is also not only amazing but very iconic and memorable. For me its probably the game I know best frame for frame of any game. I have bought it for a ton of different platforms and have it running in my mame cabinet by using daphne,pretty much Digital Leisure has made a mint of me and my love of nostalgia.
I guess I will buy it to play with my little brother and continue to hope that they actually make that animated movie Don Bluth has wanted to make for decades.-
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It's a game that consists entirely of quick time events. I'm not a huge fan of it. The animation is amazing but it's more fun to watch than actually play.
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Bought & downloading now. I never had a chance to play this as a child of the '80s.
With the added Kinect controls, our girls might enjoy this.
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