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Dragon Warrior 2

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Reviewed by SizzleSword This is the second game of the Dragon Warrior series. It's about 10 times bigger than Dragon Warrior 1. You start out as the Prince of Cannock castle. Just like in Dragon Warrior 1, you are a descendent of Erdrick, an almighty warrior. You hear about a man or creature named Hargon, that wants to take over the world. The King of Cannock castle sends you on very hard quest to find two other descendents of Erdrick, and rid the world of this thing called Hargon. The two others that you take along on your quest is the Prince of Mindenhall, and the Princess of Moonbrooke.

Graphics 10 out of 10

The graphics aren't mind blowing, but they're really good for the NES. One bad thing is that there is no background in the battles (unlike Dragon Warrior 1, which had different backgrounds). It's just a black screen. The castles and towns are large... Most of them larger than those of Dragon Warrior 1. The caves and towers look different, and on this Dragon Warrior, you don't have to use torches to see around in caves.

Music and Sound 10 out of 10

The music is really good considering that this is an NES game. The overworld theme changes to a more joyous theme after you have the Princess of Moonbrooke on your party. You probably won't get as annoyed with this music as you did with Dragon Warrior 1.

Game Challenge 10 out of 10

This game is super hard, and super long. The main reason is that the enemy party can have up to about 7 different members, while you only have a party of 3. The bosses are really hard too, and it takes a long time to level up, so you might be fighting in one part of the overworld for a long time. And until you find the Staff of Thunder, getting gold to buy things takes an awfully long time (you beat the Evil Clown in a castle and it will give you the Staff of Thunder. Sell the Staff of Thunder for about 19,500 GP, and then save and reset. The Evil Clown will be there again, so you could do this until you max out your GPs).

Game Play-Fun 9 out of 10

Since you might be staying in the same place for a long time in order to gain levels and get gold points, it might get annoying, and you might not think that the game is fun anymore. If you can live with this, and you like how you must have lots of patience to master the Dragon Warrior games, then this game should be really fun and exciting.

Frustration

The only parts that I got frustrated at were the bosses (they're hard, and you have to be on a high level in order to defeat them, which takes a long time to get to). Besides this, the game was pretty straight-forward, and there wasn't really that much confusion.

Replayability 5 out of 10

If you played this game and beat it, I doubt that you'll want to play it again. You played it, had fun with it, and beat it, and then that's that... You don't want to see anymore of this game (unless you're a real Dragon Warrior fanatic that want's to get EVERY treasure chest in the game and such). I've beat it two times... The only reason that I did this is because the first time I beat it, the game somehow got erased, so I HAD to start over (it took me about a month to beat it the first time, and about 2 weeks to beat it the second time).

Game Value 9 out of 10

I bought this game for $35.95, and I'm pretty glad that I bought it (since it's now almost $50 where I live). If you see this for anything under $30, then you'll be crazy not to buy it. I had a lot of fun with it, and I'm sure that you will too, if you liked Dragon Warrior 1 and you don't mind paying a high price for a great game.

Overall 10 out of 10

Simply put, this game is great. I liked it a lot better than Dragon Warrior 3 and 4, since it was not as confusing as the others. Although it might not be as long, Dragon Warrior 2 is still REALLY long, and should take you about a month to beat it. So, if you liked Dragon Warrior, you really should check this game out.

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