Over on Substack, I’ve just finished up my latest Recommendation Post, focusing on Vanillaware’s throwback Fantasy beat-’em-up game Dragon’s Crown.

FYI: Although the most recent release of the game is the 2018 PS4 version Dragon’s Crown Pro, that version is functional and playable on PS5 as recently as 30 minutes ago…

As always, I’ll be posting an excerpt here, and the full version is on Substack.

Now, Dragon’s Crown doesn’t really capture the gameplay experience of tabletop Dungeons & Dragons, but not even the official Dungeons & Dragons games do that, given the realities of adapting the source material to an entirely different mode of play.

However, Dragon’s Crown does a very, very good job of capturing the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons. In fact, Dragon’s Crown is pretty much an updated version of the Dungeons & Dragons arcade games from the 90s.

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