Dragons Lair for the NES is a port of the arcade game, Dragons Lair which many of us played in our lives. Due to the fact that the NES was not capable of doing laserdisc, the developers had to make the game into a platformer. Now as you begin the game you find out that you are outside the castle, just like the game. You also find out that your weapon is a knive. As you walk through the bridge you are on you find out that 97% of anything you touch will KILL you. Thats right, you cant make one mistake in this game. So like the arcade game, its just trial and error. But the arcade game was fun and original, the nes port however is frustrating and horrible. As you're walking on the bridge you jump through this small crack and walk up to the door. But the door kills you so as a beginner you will probably walk to that door and be tricked by the programmers of this atrocity. What you have to do is kill the dragon which is under the bridge, as a beginner you'd think the best choice is to hit him the back, but you can't because you can't duck at THIS part, but all the parts are ok. And you can't hit him standing up because the knives will miss the dragon. So you have to go to the left now and kill the dragon, which would be easy but here we go to another problem of the game. The delay time, you will move really slowly and ducking will take about 3 seconds to do, it wouldnt be that bad but youre trying to dodge the dragons fire while you try to defeat him. But trying to dodge the dragons fire is hard because you have to crouch at the right moment or you're dead and theres no continues in the game. After you kill the dragon, you face other enemies like prisoners throwing rocks from their cells or flying lizards in crowns and a coat. Another bad part of the game is the elevator scenes because the elevator stops at certain times and you have to jump on one of the certain times to go to the next stage. If you dont jump at the right time you lose a life. And the easiest part of the game is the boss battle. Why? Because you can just keep walking before it appears and you're done. Getting just a screen of Dirk and Daphne together. And if you went through all of that game, you wasted a lot of hours. Because you can't go through one playing. You have to study the whole game so you wont die. Its one of the worst NES games ever made. This has been my review of Dragons Lair for the NES.

Good effort but this is more a walkthrough than a review.

Walkthrough, description, review...they all count, just as long as he's the one who actually wrote it.

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