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Another classic game has been made available thanks to DOSBox. Grab your sword or staff and prepare to venture out to save the world.
About the game:
Through the swirling mists of an ancient island, the great dragon's call escapes into the night. "ANHAK DRAKKHEN AGHNAHIR HURTHD!" The sound reaches out to grab your soul - drawing you deeper into an immense, primordial land of potent magic an intricate peril.
This is a world controlled by the might power of dragons. With this great dragon's passing, the world and all its magic would vanish.
You have been chosen to lead your hand-picked band of four brave adventurers on a treacherous journey. Your quest is to reclaim the mystical jewels from eight dragon Princes, resurrect the great dragon and restore the primeval realm, the source of all magic in the universe.
Drakkhen was one of those games that I heard about from time to time but never got the chance to play. It has a large open world that you can explore and wander around in as well as a wide variety of monsters to fight and defeat. Like the other classic games from that era sold by GOG, this runs via DOSBox which has proven a great way to keep on playing older titles.
You can get a copy of Drakkhen on GOG.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
People get nostalgic about the weirdest things.
talklittle 26 Jun, 2018
Off topic, but the title's resemblance to Drakengard is probably why I ignored that series on PlayStation for so many years; I got the two mixed up, and I hated Drakkhen. Of course they are nothing alike.
wvstolzing 26 Jun, 2018
Last edited by wvstolzing on 26 June 2018 at 9:00 pm UTC
Quoting: wvstolzingI kept seeing screenshots of the Amiga version of this game in Commodore magazines -- a huge source of frustration for a poor C64 owner like myself.
My experience mirrors yours in its entirety. :D
Quoting: KelsI remember playing this on the SNES back in the day and thinking that it was one of the worst games I'd ever played. I gather there are a few differences between that and the PC version, but I can't imagine it's much less of a chore to play.
People get nostalgic about the weirdest things.
What made it so horrible ?
I was actually curios about it when i saw it.
Quoting: razing32Quoting: KelsI remember playing this on the SNES back in the day and thinking that it was one of the worst games I'd ever played. I gather there are a few differences between that and the PC version, but I can't imagine it's much less of a chore to play.
People get nostalgic about the weirdest things.
What made it so horrible ?
I was actually curios about it when i saw it.
Obviously it's been a long time and I haven't had any motivation to revisit it, but I remember that it was profoundly bad at giving directions and pretty much all controls were awkward at best. It was also quite happy to kill you outright with little indication of what you did wrong.
wvstolzing 27 Jun, 2018
Quoting: DedaleQuoting: wvstolzingI kept seeing screenshots of the Amiga version of this game in Commodore magazines -- a huge source of frustration for a poor C64 owner like myself.
My experience mirrors yours in its entirety. :D
The funny thing is that in retrospect all gaming on floppy disks feels like an unbearable chore. A few years back I bought the Cloanto 'Amiga Forever' pack to get clean working ROM images & Kickstart disks, so that I could revisit all those games & software (I used to spend hours in the school lab making Deluxe Paint animations) that was out of my reach as a kid. Unless you go through the trouble of setting up complete fliplists, or learn the trick to install floppy games on a virtual Amiga harddrive, the constant disk swapping gets old pretty quickly.
Although the emulation vs real hardware equation is not the same: On a C64 there isn't much you can do with a mouse on an emulator.
Closer to the topic at hand, i recall the adverts but when friend of mine got their hands on the actual game they said more or less the same thing than the previous posters of this thread. They did not know how to play it properly.
Oh and the name doesn't mean anything but coincidentally could be pronounced as "Buttery" which suits me just fine.
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