Sweet game, almost ruined by unfair air battles.

User Rating: 8.5 | Drakan: The Ancients' Gates PS2
When the original Drakan was released in 1999 it was an original and an impressive game that made my P200 32MB Voodoo 2 pc sweat, but somewhere in the midway I lost interest and never completed it.

I didn't expect much from this sequel but in the end got more than I awaited - it has nicer this and that than the original and the dungeon crawler loot picking gameplay is fun, until the air battles start - they are very very difficult and I try to avoid them as much as I can. I don't know what they were thinking but it is simply bad game design. The air battles were already quite hard in the original although the mouselook helped a lot, but with gamepad it's almost impossible to beat the black dragon enemies without luck.

But otherwise this game is nice and I am having sexy time with it. Woulda been perfect game for workday evenings if not for those overly difficult air battles. O well.