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1994 · Atari · Action role-playing · Adventure

Dragon View

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Dragon View is an action role-playing game released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is a follow-up to Drakkhen and combines side-scrolling combat with exploration across a 3D overworld. Players control Alex as he searches for his kidnapped girlfriend, Katarina, and confronts threats across a fantasy kingdom.

Released: 26 August 1994
Platforms: SNES Windows
Genres: Action role-playing Adventure Role-playing
Developers: Atari
Publishers: Kemco
Series: Drakkhen
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person Side view
Themes: Action Fantasy Open world
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB T
Languages: English
Time to beat: 11hmain story13hcompletionist

About

Dragon View, released in Japan as Super Drakkhen, is a 1994 action role-playing video game developed and published by Kemco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is a follow-up but not a direct sequel to Infogrames' Drakkhen. It uses the same pseudo-3D overworld system for which the series is most famous. Other features of Dragon View are its side-view action role-playing game (RPG) hybrid gameplay (used when exploring more detailed areas such as towns and dungeons), its well translated first-person storyline, and its emphasis on player-driven undirected exploration.

In 2019, the game was re-released through emulation for Windows. In 2022, a reproduction SNES cartridge was released by Limited Run Games.

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The Drakkhen series' most recognizable feature is its custom overworld engine. First used by the original Amiga version of Drakkhen, it was later used in the PC and SNES ports. Gameplay levels use a horizontally scrolling engine like its predecessor.