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Dragon: Marked for Death
Dragon Marked For Death is a side-scrolling 2D action RPG that can played solo or with up to four players in local or online multiplayer. Use your newly acquired powers to take on quests from villagers and raise your status in the kingdom. How you perform in these quests can have a direct effect on the game's final outcome. Choose from four playab...
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Dragon Marked for Death's biggest hindrances are the fact that the single-player experience sometimes suffers due to multiplayer focused design and splitting the game into two packs may also segment the player base or fill online servers with too many of the same fighters. Despite these problems, Dragon Marked for Death's special spin on the genre is something I hope to see tackled again in the future by Inti Creates.
Since the early 2000s, Inti Creates has been creating incredible 2D action games and their latest is a challenging RPG experience.
Somebody's been a bad dragon.
Despite my fervent love for RPGs, the appeal of the intricacies of the side-scrolling 2D action RPG genre has always eluded me. Yet, whether it was Dragon Marked for Death’s awesome name or the development team – Inti Creates (Mega Man Zero, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon) – behind it, I felt invigorated to possibly grasp the love that so many have felt for these types of games.
Though the game takes a bit more guessing than I’d like to figure out, it’s still a great game. As a huge fan of Azure Striker Gunvolt, I was expecting more polished gameplay from Dragon: Marked for Death and it delivered. Rushing through maps to fight bosses and pick up loot before time runs out is great fun, and definitely worth the small learning curve the game has. It already feels like a game that has potential to add a lot more depth to as well, and I hope that ...
Despite being in development for eight or more years, Dragon Marked for Death could have actually used more time in the oven. I’m sure there is a great game buried somewhere in there but between its lack of balance, less-than-ideal controls, boring levels, and unfortunate co-op requirements, the end product isn’t nearly up to the level of the rest of Inti Creates’s catalog.
In Inti Creates' action RPG, the Dragonblood Clan is seeking revenge after many years of violent persecution. But it's the dearth of others to share the experience with that has marked the game itself for death.