Review giopep 3/5 · Sep 12, 2023
Dragon’s Keep is the first game Al Lowe programmed for Sierra and it’s also their first graphic adventure for kids. It’s pretty similar to the Hi-Res Adventures, with the classical structure based on treasures to find, but with no text input, only on-screen options to choose from. Also, you can’t die, you can’t get stuck, the game is quite short …
Read moreDragon’s Keep is the first game Al Lowe programmed for Sierra and it’s also their first graphic adventure for kids. It’s pretty similar to the Hi-Res Adventures, with the classical structure based on treasures to find, but with no text input, only on-screen options to choose from. Also, you can’t die, you can’t get stuck, the game is quite short and the manual includes a draft of a map you can complete, plus a bunch of stickers representing the animals/treasures. It’s also filled with little touches that kinda feel like lo-fi versions of what you could find in a Humongous game, with small, repeatable interactions, nice graphical effects and visual stuff you wouldn’t even see in the “adult” contemporary Sierra adventures. I played it with my daughter, we downloaded the map and the stickers, we cut them out and then glued them on the map while filling the blanks. It is, of course, a very simple game, but we had lots of fun.
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