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The game version of
How to Train Your
Dragon picks
up where the movie
left off. The
dragons and Vikings
have made their
peace and now the
dragons are the
Vikings' pets
for
training, fighting,
and flying. There’s
not much of a
storyline to go
along with the game,
just a goal. To
become the village’s
best dragon trainer.
At the start of the
game you can be
either Astrid or
Hiccup. The game
begins with you
finding Stoick in
the village and him
giving your first
task. You go through
a few of these tasks
to get you started
until you finally
get into fighting in
the dragon arena.
The point of this
game is pretty easy.
You start out with
one dragon but you
build your
collection up with
many. You feed and
take care of these
dragons so you can
enter them into the
arena and fight with
them. You enter
tournament after
tournament as you
climb the rankings
of all the dragon
trainers in your
village.
This game isn’t bad.
It’s in the vein of
Pokemon and those
types of games. You
collect dragons and
then you collect
items to feed to the
dragons to improve
their statistics in
the ring. You want a
healthy dragon
entering the arena
so you have a better
chance of winning
although you won’t
need that many
attributes to do
well because the
fighting is pretty
easy. You control
the fighting of the
dragons in the arena
with very basic
fighting moves. You
can breathe fire,
strong attack, weak
attack, dodge, and
block.
This game is very
monotonous. That’s
the main problem
with it. It was made
for the younger
audience and that’s
fine but even they
will find this
boring after a few
hours. You’ll split
time feeding and
training your
dragon, collecting
items, and fighting
in the arena.
Training the dragon
isn’t entirely
necessary because
you’re just taught a
bunch of attacks
over and over again.
Feeding the dragon
is pretty boring
because you just
feed the dragon
items you’ve
collected throughout
the village to
improve his
statistics and let
him sleep for a few
seconds so he’s well
rested. Fighting in
the arena is okay
for the most part
but the fighting
moves are very basic
and the game is too
easy even for
beginning gamers.
The
character models in
How
to Train Your Dragon
are fine. And the
game is fine too. In
typical Dreamworks/Activision
title fashion, not
all of the voices in
the game are the
same as the voices
in the movie but the
substitutes are
serviceable.
While not great for
gamers over 10, the
younger audience is
going to love this
game. Although it’s
not going to be
overly challenging
for them they’ll
have fun collecting
and training their
dragons and they’ll
be able to move the
story well past the
movie with this
game. Your kids will
find this game cool
and entertaining for
a long time and it’s
something you can
join in pm with them
and interact for a
moments. Again, it’s
not overly
challenging but it’s
the perfect pace
game for young
gamers.
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