“Dragon’s Crown” (“DC”) is the 7th game by Vanillaware (including the Japan-only release of the Saturn game “Princess Crown” before the team took on their current Vanillaware moniker), a development team lead by director George Kamitani, who also worked on the old Capcom Dungeons & Dragons based Beat ‘em Ups that make up the “Chronicles of Mystara” compilation. After his work on those arcade titles, Kamitani developed the idea of a non-D&D based Beat ‘em Up with more in-depth RPG trappings. Nearly 13 years after his initial idea, Kamitani was able to bring this game to life at the tail-end of the 7th Generation. As a huge fan of Vanillaware’s dedication to the perfection of 2D graphics in a gaming culture dominated by polygons, I have been following “DC” since ... |
Rating of 4/5 |