Drakensang - Review @ Strategy Informer

...You start off with your character on the way to meet a friend, and then all of a sudden you’re fulfilling one of those pesky destinies you’ve been trying so hard to avoid all your life. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? Still, one could argue it’s a time-proven formula. Along the way you meet up with several NPC’s who can become ‘followers’ of yours, and who you can recruit up to 3 to form a party with you. These followers are a diverse range of races, skills and characteristics, in order to allow you to specialise your character more fully without worrying about the fact that you can’t use magic, or a bow. Most characters also have their own side story that surrounds them, and being the unfortunate soul who asked them to join you, you’ll most likely end up having to deal with their problems.

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If you were to summon Drakensang into one word, it would be ‘good’. Unfortunately, that’s all it is, whilst the story is well thought out and executed, there’s nothing new or exciting. Combat isn’t particularly ground-breaking either. All in all, it takes several hallmark traditions, makes it their own, and re-creates them well, but doesn’t do much that’s new. Hardcore fans of the series will enjoy this game, people who like the old school RPG’s will also enjoy this game. Heck, even people who just like a good story, or fancy some offline action for a change will find this game enjoyable. Just don’t expect it to do anything different.

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rbtroj said:

I am really digging Drakensang. I bought on a whim (bored impulse, really), without any familiarity with the title, TDE, or pen & paper gaming in Germany as a whole.

Maybe it's because of those facts that I am liking it so much. I like it the way I liked the first Dungeon Siege (and I realize that DS is rpg lite where Drakensang is very much NOT).

Radon really did a good job here.

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