Hello and greetings from Eastern Europe, my name is ColdBeer and today I present to you
my short review about Here be Dragons - a very nice indie game where you travel ancient
world and fight beasts.
You may ask, what kind of beasts?
Well, game is named Here be Dragons, so what do you expect?
Dragons?
Yes, I expected that too, but here aren’t any.
Yeah, you can meet a lot of magical sea creatures, but literally here are zero dragons.
Anyway, here you won’t feel a lack of ugly disgusting creatures.
One of them is literally named snot.
You know that ancient Eastern European legend that says, that every snot you pick from your
nostrils and throw into the ocean will grow up like this and terrorize ships.
Though I’m not a firm believer in that, probably because there is no ocean in Eastern
Europe, more realistic version would be that every snot you throw into the sea is searching
for other snots that somebody else threw in there.
So they lump together, grow bigger and bigger until they start to work like a single organism
and only then terrorize various ships.
Arr!
You won’t find such stories in this game, this is all my creation, but the game itself
is funny.
Here you will find dozens of references and Easter eggs to movies and pop culture.
Like one time when captain calls a random whale the perfect organism which structural
perfection is matched only by its hostility.
Do you know from where this sentence is taken?
Do not google, you cheater!
So, let’s talk about the mechanics.
At first sight, you might thing that battles are similar to Heroes of Might and Magic,
but they are not.
This is way more complicated system and I’m not afraid to say that this game is really
hard.
I was playing on normal all the time, but I had to repeat some maps over and over again.
One battle I had to replay 7 times.
That is NOT normal, that is already hard.
That’s what she said.
Oh shut up.
Game has quite complicated system of dices, so a random factor is really strong here.
Every turn you have to assign dices to your ships in order to activate various abilities.
But if your number of assigned dices is bigger than the score you left to the enemy, you
lose initiative, in other words, you lose your turn to play and sometimes you have to
make a hard decision.
That sounds complicated, and it actually is, but later you’ll get used to it.
Game throws various creatures at you, from snots to mermaids, from sharks to hydras:
almost every map has something different that wants you dead.
I have managed to play until Chapter 8.3 and then I just gave up.
I tried to beat monsters many times, but I failed, and failed and failed again, so the
game started suggesting to play on easy difficulty, but I don’t want to do that, so my friendship
with Here be Dragons was ruined right then, right there.
You can test your might and see if you’re smarter than I Am and try to beat those 3
hydras.
Tell me in the comments how you did it, what is the secret?
Game gave me lots of fun, despite of being very difficult.
I would totally recommend it to any turn-based strategy games fan.
Just be sure, do not stream it and do not record your gameplay with music on.
It’s copyrighted, but not in a very bad way, they just want ALL your ad revenue money.
I have made a gameplay video, and then I had to delete it, because I’m not in a mood
of giving away my hard work of editing and jokes to some dude.
So, the verdict: I would say strong 7.
It could be higher if I had managed to play this game to the end, but alas, I’m too
stupid for normal difficulty apparently.
That’s an insult, game, that really is.
All right, thank you for watching.
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Have a nice, productive day, I’ll see you next time, bye.