Dragonsphere

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Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 01.01.1994

-85%6.99€1,04€

Preis Update 29.06.24

Newly-crowned King of Callahach! It's been twenty years since your father saved the world by entrapping the evil Sorcerer Sanwe. Now the spell is waning. Sanwe's malevolent force will soon consume the land, and only you can stop him. Will your quest be aided or subverted by bizarre races like shape-shifting Slathans, the faery-like Brynn-Fann, of the black-eyed Soptus Ecliptus?

A thousand deaths await your every step as you unlock mind bending puzzles. Magical items lie just out of reach. A host of deadly monsters are eager to do battle with you. And glorious rewards are yours to obtain as you struggle to preserve your father's legacy. The stage is set. The fate of the world turns upon your actions. The time for adventure is now!

Journey through a fully realized fantasy world via dazzling state-of-the-art graphics.
Experience the adventure through haunting music and fully digitized speech.
Perform an unprecedented range of actions with the MADS intuitive interface of your fingertips.
Watch your adventures come to life with ultra-smooth rotoscoping and advanced animation.
Soundtrack Included in high quality FLAC format.

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CPU: 1.0 GHz Processor
GFX: 100% DirectX compatible graphics
RAM: 512 MB RAM
Software: Windows XP / Vista / 7
HD: 500 MB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: 100% DirectX compatible card or onboard sound
LANG: Englisch

CPU: 1.5 GHz Processor
GFX: 100% DirectX compatible graphics
RAM: 1 GB RAM
Software: Windows 7
HD: 500 MB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: 100% DirectX compatible card or onboard sound
LANG: Englisch

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439 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.11.21 16:25

First RPG I ever played. I am thrilled that it was ported to Steam. If you are hard core at puzzles, keep good notes. If not, get the walk through; some parts get sticky. Well designed , though dated in graphics. Twists in plot are numerous.

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97 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.03.20 20:42

10/10

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10 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.01.17 18:46

I remember this game being very unique for its time. Definitely a classic in my book gaming through the 90's. This game is very in style for Microprose. Another one of theirs that I really liked was the Return of the Phantom, which is not yet on steam. The graphics with Dragonsphere were very good for the time, and a very different style to what Sierra was doing. I think that with Dragonsphere, the vision was very big with the animations, but the technology was limited. This game is also quite difficult as were many point and click adventure games of the time. They alwasy left you wondering on what was next to do, and you would spend hours traveling around and clicking things to find the next step. I have no idea how I did it when i was younger with very little access to hint systems. I replayed this and many other games so many times I could usually start new and from memory go through each of the points in the game and finish it within a few hours, or less than a days time. Its fun to go through these classics for the nostalgia, but I am also surprised at how much I have forgotten and how new feeling it can be too. Even though I probably went through Dragonsphere a several dozen times as a child, I would be totally lost without a walkthrough now.

Some negative reviews have noted about the 'meh' story line. I think the plot is very simple, but the game is filled with all types of content that I have never seen anywhere else. You do have to dig a little deeper than just the introduction and your first venture out of the castle. The story is not going to blow your mind, or get you too emotionally involved with the characters. But it has some interesting things non the less. The voice acting is also a bit 'meh' but for me the nostalgic memory of the time was in awe over the fact there were voices at all. CD-ROM and voice acting in video games were just starting to make an appearance. This was like magic and this game and several others were pioneers to the craft.

I think the price of the game is worth it for what you get. But the game is not going to be for everyone.

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407 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.10.15 18:48

I wouldn't know about you, but I've always been a fan of the old school adventure games with rich stories and ridiculously hard puzzles back in the day. Dragonsphere is an old school point & click adventure, originally developed and published by Microprose in 1994, and carries all qualities of its genre from obscure puzzles to incredibly rich narrative.

We take a quick glimpse on the land of Callahach, a medieval realm with high fantasy elements. 20 years ago, the evil sorcerer Sanwe was defeated and sealed into his own tower by the King, young prince Callash and court wizard, Ner-Tom with the usage of the Dragonsphere. 20 years later, the seal begins to wear off and once again, the realm is threatened by Sanwe's probable release. Prophecies of old call - now King Callash, to finish the battle started 20 years ago. After his coronation, our King decides to take the quest of facing the evil sorcerer and see to his demise once and for all.

Here in the land of Callahach, our fair hero is to embark on a journey to collect aid from neighboring nations in hopes of defeating Sanwe. Callach is to solve faerie riddles, deal with cunning shapeshifters, drink and gamble with the Caliph of Soptus, tread the Spirit Realm, wrestle with beasts of deep realms, avoid deadly traps and even prejudice of his own people. In the end though, the deceit comes from our one blind side, of course, with the addition of one major plot twist.

Without revealing further details of this beautiful, yet short story; let's take a look on what Dragonsphere has to offer. The game hails from the day when we used MS-DOS to play games, and it still uses a DOS BOX, which is both nostalgic and cute in my opinion. If you are in favor of realistic and magnificent graphics, this surely is not it. Yet, with the technology of the given era, Dragonsphere doesn't fail to deliver an elegant and beautiful display, accompanied with surprisingly catchy midi music. The movements of characters, background art and interactive animations do seem like art: pretty and elegant. I'm sure that some people made this game with much time and love spared. Voice acting is a bit hoarse and unimaginative, but script itself makes up for its own.

Gameplay menu presents you a list of actions and an inventory, in which you can combine actions with either items or the environment. Combinations are not always logical, but always imaginative. For everything you look at, you are rewarded with detailed narrative descriptions which enrich the setting greatly. Puzzles are really hard, I won't lie. For the first puzzle of the game - the Faerie Maze - you have to go through a logic puzzle, which did take 3 hours for me to figure out! When I finally figured the correct combination out, I was about to shed tears of joy! Aside this one, you will be encountering movement puzzles, language puzzles and lore puzzles, all obscure, yet imaginative and well thought. There is no replay value at all, but one playthrough is challenging enough.

Dragonsphere is certainly not for everyone. I'll recommend this game for the nostalgic and the one who'd like a real challenge in brain gymnastics only. Also, I have to inform you that the game is free for you to grab in GOG, so you may prefer not to pay for it here on Steam. I, for myself, was happy to lend some financial provision for Microprose, for the old times’ sake.

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307 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.05.15 23:28

PROS:
+ nice story
+ atmosphere of an adventure
+ old-school game feel
+ decent voice acting

CONS:
- DOSBox interface
- 10-action menu to go through with each command
- poor level/puzzle design with emphasis on guessing
- rather short game time

Comment:
Trying to be fair to old games is hard while balancing both nostalgia value and comparison to current games. The game is not bad but it is not great either. The story is nice with a plot twist in the middle. And the feeling that you are on a quest is there. But the puzzles are not well done at all. Many are just guessing and often you miss an item on the ground because it is just a shade different than the ground itself. Also combining some stuff is hard to figure out. Difficulty and challenge are okay but here it borders on ridiculous sometimes when clicking through combinations of items and the 10-action menu. And even though I failed a lot of the times and I spend hours combining stuff it still only took about 5 hours to finish the game. This is clearly a game for people with a liking to the old-school feel of adventure games and to those I recommend getting it on a sale. To everyone else I advise to pick-up something else.
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51 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.05.15 20:35

Reminicent of Sierra's Kings Quest series, this take on the adventure genre by Microprose is entertaining on its own.

A classic adventure game worth of your attention, money and time.

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118 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.03.15 22:39

I grew up playing these games, and I LOVE MicroProse (Master of Orion). If you're a fan of the Sierra type of point and click adventure games (Kings Quest, Police Quest, Liesure Suit Larry, etc) this one will not disappoint. I suggest reading the manual before just diving in. This was made back when games were hard and people loved them, so dont get too frustrated with it.

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63 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.10.14 23:33

H!, here is a great quest with well made animation ,artistic voice acting and magic story wich you have to uncover holds a lot of suprizes, it starts a lilttle slow but just to fool you a bit.Dont want to tell you a lot just jump in this world folks, fully recommended. And DoS config now looks cool, but as usual i add - scaler=advmame2x (it set normal2x as default) - for smoother picture, it can be set in dosbox_dragonsphere.conf wich can be found in Dragonsphere dosbox_windows folder, and in same file i set - output=ddraw (it set overlay as default)- to avoid artifacts.,other settings should be changed only if you have problems, btw post em maybe we can solve em togather.

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