Dragon Crystal
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Item Description
You ride your bicycle down an unfamiliar alley, wander into an antique shop and touch a glowing crystal. The next thing you know, you are standing in a monster-filled forest maze with a large egg following you around. Dragon Crystal is a roguelike from Sega's early Game Gear days, and that odd little opening is the start of a dungeon crawl with far more depth than its pocket size suggests.
Every floor is a fog-covered maze with randomly placed monsters and items, and you uncover the map as you explore. Combat is turn-based in the classic roguelike sense: each step or action is a turn, enemies move when you move, and getting surrounded is how runs end. Hunger keeps the pressure on, so you need to keep finding cakes and meat to avoid starving. Potions, books, rods and rings are color-coded and unidentified until you try them, which means every new item is a gamble that might save your life or ruin it.
Then there is the egg. As you gain levels it hatches into a baby dragon, and your companion keeps growing as you push deeper, a reason to care about every level-up beyond the numbers. Your goal is the holy goblet waiting on the thirtieth floor, and the early stretches have their own surreal charm, with trees, cacti, sunflowers and Easter Island-style statues scattered across the mazes. If you have enough gold you can continue after falling, but you lose everything you were carrying unequipped, so greed is always a risk.
Dragon Crystal shares its DNA with Sega's Genesis roguelike Fatal Labyrinth, released around the same time, and it brought that genre's run-based tension to a handheld years before roguelikes became fashionable. Dragon magazine gave it five stars, and Sega brought it back on the 3DS Virtual Console decades later. It is an ideal handheld game: short turns, quick decisions and runs that never play out the same way twice.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Sega of America
- Developer
- M2
- Players
- Single player
About the game
A roguelike "dungeon" crawler that leads you through 30 levels on your quest to find a way to return to your own world. You're caught in a fantastic world of unearthly beauty and deadly demons. You'll pass through thirty worlds in search of the Magic Goblet. There's no way out of this musical nightmare...until you find it.
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