[DoctorEldritch]

Hello Legion Gamers!

This weekend there was a Chinese New Year and now we're officially in the year of Wood Dragon!



Congratulations to all who celebrate Chinese New Year and to all born on the Year of the Dragon (like yours truly 😉)! Let's hope it brings us all some good fortunes!

@Saka I think it is a good opportunity for a T-Rex comedian, too:



But to celebrate this occasion, I thought a trailer from Spyro could be fitting:

It may not be the best game with dragons in it, or the newest, but it has the largest number of dragons than any other game I know 😅

Happy Dragon New Year!

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch Spyro is so cute and its bright world can improve one's rough day! I think it's a good game for relaxing. The reignited trilogy plays really well on PC, I originally tried the game at a friend's place on PS4 and the controls were not as smooth because of the limited framerate. It's a whole different beast on desktop.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka Oh indeed, it runs much more smoothly. I tried the new trilogy, but I could not go past the first game. It looks good, and plays nice, but the gameplay got a bit too repetitive for me. Which was typical of the era when it first came out, I am not complaining. But it did end up in my "later" pile because I wanted to have more variety.

Despite that, I agree that it is very nice and relaxing, despite being a platformer. You just need to approach it with that in mind.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch I suppose it works for me, because I don't expect the gameplay to be innovative and the repetitive mechanics are fine with me in that game. I enjoy the cute world full of bright colours, even the "creepy" places have a quite big colour palette. It's nice.

Managing the expectations is the key in a lot of things, I guess!

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka You're right. I think I made the mistake of not making enough expectations, though. I did not know or play the game before, never played the original as a kid, but I thought, it was a bit of a cult game, so I may want to give it a try.

And I gave it an honest go, and it was ok, but did not hook me. Either gameplay or story, while not bad, felt a bit dated. Interesting to try from a historical perspective, but difficult to spend a lot of time on, at least, for me.

But maybe that's just how I am, I had the same thing with Mario, despite of how massively popular that Italian plumber is.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch For me the game fits the niche of games to play for a little bit when there's not too much time for a long session. You know, in Hogwarts Legacy or some other big games 30 minutes means almost nothing. But that 30 minutes is good enough to pass a level in a platformer or something else in the smaller games that operate on a gameplay loop. For example, right now I play Warcraft Rumble almost daily. I don't get hooked on it for hours, it gets boring. But for half an hour to complete the daily quests and get some progress for my army, why not?

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka Ah, I get it. This is what I was getting at when I mentioned the Doors game to you that EGS was giving away, it is really into this whole "small-scale gameplay". But for me, games like that are mostly deck-builder games where you can play a few rounds, tweak your deck a bit and feel content to do something else or play something else. Platformers for me usually do not fall into this category of games.