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10/10

I played through the game 3 times to this point and can say that Dragon's Wake is a very interesting platformer to say the least, both as a concept and as a game. There are many good points about the game, but sadly it isn't perfect.


Positive aspects:

-Dragons:
Give me one argument that speaks against dragons, especially playing as one.

-Original and good-looking artworks:
The artworks which appear between map sections look unique and quite good.

-Original Soundtrack:
Soundtrack is good, nothing more to say.

-Multiple endings / decisionmaking / secrets:
I won't add anything here because everything to say beyond this is a spoiler.


Neutral aspects:

-relatively high difficulty:
Somewhat hard controls, especially in flight, along with only few prey feast on for health and new kinds of foes gives this game a quite high difficulty. Though to be fair I personally didn't have too many problems with all of these things, though many other people did.


Negative aspects:

-Short game: To play through the game you just need around 1 hour. If you plan on playing all endings maybe 2-3 hours. It is justifiable due to the low price, though i would have liked a longer game for a higher price instead of the opposite.

-Glitches:
There is a potential for the game to get glitched: For me personally a certain drawbridge didnt close and got stuck, although being outside "fighting" against the knight. Due to this I needed to reload the section by quitting and reloading. So there is a chance for glitches to occur in the game.


-Some further things happening in the last stages:

(Spoilers!):
->quite bad endboss fight: Fighting the knight is quite bland and practically it is hit and run with the ground slam ability which makes the fight long and boring. Also, due to the hit and run, you die, alot.

->This fricking artwork of the bad ending that appears everytime you die and refight the knight. My first playthrough where i didnt exactly knew that there are multiple endings, i got confronted with this picture of the adopted dragon beheaded in such a grusome way. In my honest opinion: Just seeing the dragon being killed onscreen would have been far enough. Just avoid the bad ending!
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Overall, especially due to the high quality and interesting mechanics for a low price, I can recommend the game.
I hope that there are similar platformers (with a dragon protagonist!) in the future.

So, some say it's just a Sonic ripoff or bad because of it. So here is what I personally think:

pros:
-fantastic art
-glorious soundtrack
-It's trying to be different (And it also is in general... despite the simularities to sonic)
- +5 Humor
-Interesting characters with all their special capabilities
-bloopers (not directly in the game, but there is a way to get them ingame)
-"ohmygosh that story!" and (SPOILER! about the ending) ohmygosh that ending of crushing an incapable Brevon into the ship wall because of Lilac's rage

neutral (good for some, bad for others):
-somewhat high diffriculty (at least normal and hard) (you shouldn't be ashamed if you die on normal... around 30+ times)
-you can sometimes see the later story coming... But then again it fits really well, despite being somewhat Cliché
-steep learning curve/no tutorial/no hints of how to beat a boss efficiently -- then again it reminds of earlier games without the internet, so hold your Chrome, Firefox, Internet Exp.. wait ... ehem ... Opera closed, thank you. Otherwise it may take some of it's nostalgica.

cons:
-Ehem,... well
...and the neverending journey of finding something particular bad ...

Well, nevertheless it's my opinion, so you could disagree on some points.

And, is it a Sonic ripoff? - Maybe at first glance, but at least I had not the impression of it being somewhat of a cheap ripoff.. 'though some parts are taken from Sonic, but what the heck ...