7aa9394dea DragonFangZ - The Rose Amp; Dungeon Of Time TL:DR Version: If you like the Mystery Dungeon style of Roguelikes then you should buy the game, it's worth it's asking price!DragonFangZ is the third of a series of Mystery Dungeon style roguelikes. For those who might not know Msytery Dungeon games are a pretty well reknowned collection of games made by the developer ChunSoft. ChunSoft where perhaps one of the first developers to put in "meta-game progression" in their roguelikes all the way back on the Super Nintendo with their first turn based dungeon crawling game Shiren the Wanderer. DragonFangZ follows in these very familar footsteps with decent hand drawn character sprites. Items and potions that need to be identifed and a warehouse system that allows the player to send items back to the "starting hub" so that they don't have to start every run with no items. Of course like with most roguelikes, once you die in the dungeon you lose everything (character levels included) and start back at level 1. There is only one playable chatacer and no character classes so your runs are typicaly defined by what items and spells you can obtain during that run.DragonFangZ has some things that makes it stand out and the most notable being the "BRAVE" system which is basicly a risk vs reward style system. Sometimes the player kills a monster and obtains their "fang". The fang allows them to cast skills or spells when equiped but they all have a cooldown period which only gets reduced by fighting enemies with no walls surrounding the players character. This typicaly goes agasint what most games of this type teach you which is to use bottlenecks to your advantage. The player will need to be careful though because encountering to many enemies at once will get you killed if you are not perpared enough for the fight.DragonFangZ is not an easy game, you will most likely die a lot and will curse the RNG gods from time to time. But the game does a great job of teaching new players to the roguelikes how to actually play a roguelike despite is rather ropey translation. The game will constantly keep telling you to observe monsters for their paterns and not to just blindly charge in to battle or blindly put on potentaly cursed equipment. So for people looking in to getting in to these types of games DragonFangZ does a pretty good job and I would recommend it even at it's no sale price.The only con I can really think of is that this game is built with controllers in mind which is not surprising considering this game came from the Nintendo Switch.. Finally a proper Mystery Dungeon-like on Steam*! Looks decent and seems to have all the trappings you would expect from the genre. The translation could have used some more polish, but it is not so bad as to be annoying. Based on my playtime so far (2h) I would say DragonFangZ is well worth the money if you enjoyed similiar games (like the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series) on other formats.(* The only other similiar game on Steam that I am aware of is Voyage to Farland, which comes off as more amateurish in comparison and does not have the same bells and whistles, but may still be worth a look if you like the genre). Good game, does as advertised, fun!
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