See if you can beat this game.

The Game Room
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The premise is simple. Just click in the areas that get highlighted (when they highlight, that is). Use good reflexes and timing and see how far you can get.

I have yet to beat this game…although I have gotten pretty damn far a lot of times.

Also note: The levels pretty much in random order after you escape the room with your cell in it, so replying with things like “I got as far as the…” is pointless.
So just post your thoughts and observations on various rooms you did die on (and you will die, trust me–multiple times) and tell me if anyone actually, miraculously beats it.
And finally, here’s the game:
http://www.studiohunty.com/dungeon/

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Less than thirty seconds into this, I hate this game and will never try it again. It’s all just about memorizing patterns in particular rooms, so it’s kind of like Dragon’s Lair except you don’t know which room is next…yet I’m sure that the place to click is the same in the rooms when you DO get them. I hated Dragon’s Lair for the totally linear aspect and I hate this game as well. Sorry if you do like it; I just hate memorization games.

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So, in other words, nobody has beaten it yet. : p

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Woo, finally did. Man, that took forever.

“That’s all there is so far! Congratulations on finishing all the rooms and thanks for playing!”

The hardest click, by far, was the one near the very end when you and the yellow guy are in midair with your swords.

Good luck to anyone else. You’ll probably need it.

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Really didn’t find it fun or interesting, so nope, didn’t beat it, won’t beat it, don’t care. Maybe having more than a nanosecond to respond would build the interest for me.

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I beat it, pretty tough. The two bosses/checkpoints were the toughest.

Some things I noticed:

There are “blocks” the whole things isn’t random. It’s the first tier (really easy like the blue ninja and falling platforms). This is broken up by the “wand” section where you turn the plant into the kitten. Then it goes to tier 2 (rotating rooms, bed monster) broken by the glass dragon. After the glass dragon you move to tier 3, which are all the ones that needed a sword (I didn’t find the yellow ninja w/ sword one that tough though). After you do/fail those it goes back to the tier 2 rooms and the dragon, after that you finish the ones haven’t done and if you failed on the dragon and have lives you keep looping the dragon room (you’d probably also loop any remaining room if it was the only one left). Overall it was pretty good.

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This appears to be a parody of a 25 year old video arcade game Dragon’s Lair. The opening narration is a similar style. The original had beautifully rendered animation with hundreds of film clips stored on laser disc, new technology at the time. The gameplay is pretty much the same. In the original the puzzles were a choice between either going right, or going left. If you chose the correct one, it would play an animated film clip of the hero dodging danger. If you chose wrong it would show him falling to his doom.
Cuckoorex, you might appreciate it more if you were familiar with the original. Seeing stick figure art instead of the disney styleanimation of the original is at least mildly amusing.

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Now I’m going to have to find Dragon’s Lair and play it until I beat it.

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Sorry, I meant to say Attack from the 3rd dimension. Cuckoorex obviously already knows the original game.

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I couldn’t even get one. I died 3 times in a row. I think it’s impossible with a laptop mousepad.

Idle Thoughts: Last time I was at Half Price Books at Catus & Tatum they had stacks of Dragon’s Lair for 3 bucks. I bought one, played it for awhile, and then gave it to my nephew.

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Is it the same Dragon’s Lair that starts out with a knight outside of a castle needing to cross a bridge (in which bits of it break under him) and a dragon pops up right at the start (from the moat)?

If so, no thanks. I tried it online already and couldn’t even get into the freaking castle (even though I tried about 20 times).
But if it’s another game you’re talking about, please let me know.

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That doesn’t sound familiar, but I can’t remember for sure. It actually wasn’t “last time I was in there” - it was more like 3 or 4 years ago :).

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Thanks. Unfortunately, this may be beyond the event horizon of my ‘to do’ list, but I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your suggestion.

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It doesn’t appear to be, it is. Probably more a homage than a parody.

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My brain doesn’t process images that quickly. I mostly just sat there with a slack jawed expression on my face, utterly bewildered.

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If it means anything, I did too the first few times.

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No, that’s the NES version. Same name, same infuriating difficulty, different gameplay. See this Angry Video Game nerd clip:

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I thought it was hilarious :slight_smile:
Thanks for posting.

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I beat it, but I cheated by using the Tab and Return keys.

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That’s ingenious.