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Developer: Outlaw
Publisher: Palace Software
Reviewer: Adrian Simpson
Where would gaming be without dragons?
How many Amiga games would be left with a
dragon-sized hole? It's fair to say that if they
didn't mythologically exist it'd be necessary to
invent them.
In Dragon's Breath, or Dragon Lord as it
was known in the United States, the dragon is
a weapon of mass destruction that is used
against the populace of the land of Anrea and
other players. Anrea is geographically and
politically a divided land and is comprised of a
variety of squares which represent woodland,
water, mountains or grassy plains. Towns rise
and fall on these squares throughout the
game. Three towers dominate the landscape
and each acts as a base to send dragons out
on missions. Somewhere, hidden from view,
are three pieces of a talisman which will,
when brought together in the finest tradition
of gaming targets, allow one player to gain
access to the central Dwarf Mountain and discover
the secret of immortality!
Two maps of Anrea provide an oversight of
the gaming area. The first is a live action
map, viewed at an angle, which shows the
flight of the dragons. However, here the dragons
are only seen as coloured dots which
move across the landscape, which is a bit
unexciting. The second map is rendered in the
style of a parchment
and shows
more detail.
AMIGA 500
Dragon (Where did the apostrophe go? - Ed)s Breath may be
bereft of possessive punctuation but it does feature dragons. Lots
of them. Adrian Simpson searches for the elusive beasts.
“One of the game’s best concepts
is the breeding of dragons.”
Instead of showing a single super map
Dragon's Breath separately presents these
two maps, each slightly unsatisfying in itself.
The high level map shows the players' towers
but the detailed map omits them. What the
detailed map does give is an indication, in
kilometres, of how far squares are from your
tower, so there is at least some information. It
is somewhat confusing for the player as he
initially tries to process the relationship of
each map to the other and to find out where
his dragons are.
A second map-related issue is the lack of
distinction between squares on the detailed
view. There is a boundary box which shows
the limits of a square and which appears
when you land a dragon on it or when a town
occupies its position.
� And they called me crazy when I took out dragon attack insurance.
Once the
dragon
departs a
non-town square
it becomes part of the parchment
again and when the
square is woodland in a large amount of
woodland it gets lost. There are landmarks,
such as sea serpents and the central mountain,
so the player will most likely end up trying
to locate squares in relation to these
guides.
Each square is positioned midway between
the two squares above and the two squares
below. It’s difficult to locate a square in a
mass of similar landscape
� Disneyland Wales is a
bit hardcore for some.
⊳ We call it 'Nature's Goodness'.