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Dragon's Crown (2013)

Atlus, Vanillaware

Dreamcast · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation Vita · Wii

3.47 from 356 ratings

1167 members have it in their collection · 71 playing now · 497 backlogged · 200 wish listed

How long? Main story 14h · with extras 20h · 100% 60h (from 8 logged playthroughs)

Dragon's Crown is a multiplayer hack-and-slash beat'em up game with breathtaking visual style, a design built around cooperative play, epic boss fights, and the ability to discover a new adventure in every play session. Developer Vanillaware deftly marries stunning hand-drawn and animated art work with deep, action-packed hardcore gameplay. Dragon's Crown allows up to four players to team up locally … Read more
Dragon's Crown is a multiplayer hack-and-slash beat'em up game with breathtaking visual style, a design built around cooperative play, epic boss fights, and the ability to discover a new adventure in every play session. Developer Vanillaware deftly marries stunning hand-drawn and animated art work with deep, action-packed hardcore gameplay. Dragon's Crown allows up to four players to team up locally or online to clear out monster-ridden dungeons, discover precious treasure, and destroy awe-inspiring bosses. Its unique, highly replayable design means that every time players can boot up and log on, they can expect a different experience. Unparalleled in their unique style, Vanillaware painstakingly hand-paints every detail, be it a blade of grass or the scales on the game's impressive dragons. The game becomes a lush, vibrant storybook come to life when everything starts to animate in gorgeous full HD. Read less
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Details

Developers
Atlus, Vanillaware
Publishers
Atlus, Nippon Ichi Software
Genres
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Historical
Event
Sony E3 2011 Press Conference

Release dates

  • Jul 25, 2013 (Full Release) (Japan) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
  • Aug 06, 2013 (Full Release) (North_America) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
  • Oct 11, 2013 (Full Release) (Europe) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
  • TBD (Cancelled) (Worldwide) Dreamcast, Wii

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Rating distribution

5 stars
47
4 stars
131
3 stars
130
2 stars
40
1 star
8
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Community All Reviews Statuses

killerstar

Status killerstar Mar 27, 2025

I've got another long flight this weekend (from Boudler to Cape Town 😓) so help me select a portable game to play on my phone with the vita emulator. These are the options I've got so far:

  • Dragon's Crown
  • Guacamele!
  • Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma
  • Keep trying to make Salt and Sanctuary work, even though the game constantly crashes. …
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I've got another long flight this weekend (from Boudler to Cape Town 😓) so help me select a portable game to play on my phone with the vita emulator. These are the options I've got so far:

  • Dragon's Crown
  • Guacamele!
  • Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma
  • Keep trying to make Salt and Sanctuary work, even though the game constantly crashes.
  • Something else?
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Sir_Laguna

Status Sir_Laguna May 20, 2020

I wrote a thing that isn't gonna be controversial in any way. No sir. No ma'am. No controversial at all. Nopity nope.

This is an article (in spanish, as usual) about how it was to play Dragon's Crown, a game with character designs widely considered sexist, with a feminist.

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(The feminist is my wife, btw).

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I wrote a thing that isn't gonna be controversial in any way. No sir. No ma'am. No controversial at all. Nopity nope.

This is an article (in spanish, as usual) about how it was to play Dragon's Crown, a game with character designs widely considered sexist, with a feminist.

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(The feminist is my wife, btw).

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Sir_Laguna

Status Sir_Laguna Apr 6, 2020

After nine months of playing ocasionally, my wife and I FINALLY beat Dragon's Crown with a Wizard and an Elf.

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We loved the game and had a lot of fun. We're already talking about maybe starting a new run with new characters, but she has A LOT of opinions about the art style, specially most of female characters designs. Maybe …

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After nine months of playing ocasionally, my wife and I FINALLY beat Dragon's Crown with a Wizard and an Elf.

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We loved the game and had a lot of fun. We're already talking about maybe starting a new run with new characters, but she has A LOT of opinions about the art style, specially most of female characters designs. Maybe I should turn that into an article?

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Tubbymora

Status Tubbymora Aug 21, 2019

The handpainted looking art style, and sidescrolling beat'em up action is what first attracted me to this game. Of course, there's the controversy behind some of the overly exaggerated images depicted in the game (I personally didn't mind), BUT if you can look past that I think it's a pretty solid beatem up RPG game. Definitely one of the more …

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The handpainted looking art style, and sidescrolling beat'em up action is what first attracted me to this game. Of course, there's the controversy behind some of the overly exaggerated images depicted in the game (I personally didn't mind), BUT if you can look past that I think it's a pretty solid beatem up RPG game. Definitely one of the more unique ones out there :)

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Sir_Laguna

Status Sir_Laguna Jul 31, 2019

Finally started this with my wife last weekend.

We thought the exaggerated 'Frazetta in steroids' artstyle that make some of the women in the game look like the most cartonish pornstars ever would make us dislike the game, but the gameplay was so fun that we could ignore that easily. Also, that artwork style works perfectly for the monsters and …

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Finally started this with my wife last weekend.

We thought the exaggerated 'Frazetta in steroids' artstyle that make some of the women in the game look like the most cartonish pornstars ever would make us dislike the game, but the gameplay was so fun that we could ignore that easily. Also, that artwork style works perfectly for the monsters and scenarios.

It seems like we finally found a 'weekend game' to replace Diablo III.

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