Arcade classic brought to the Wii.

User Rating: 8.5 | Dragon Spirit TG16
Graphics: Ok, lemme give you a quick runthrough of this game. This is the beginning of a trilogy (Dragon Spirit, Dragon Sabre, Dragon Spirit - The New Legend) and TNL is similar to this one, which was released on the NES. Comparing that to this one, the graphics on this game are far superior than TNL. They're very good in general, detail is awesome, and this is saying a lot for an '87 home console game.

Sound/Music: They are a bit grainy and choppy, but the soundtrack is really good.


Difficulty: This game is EXTREMELY difficult, in fact one of the hardest games I've played in my life. It will frusterate you if you keep trying and dying. I'd suggest personally to just go through one or two times and if you can't get through it, take a break.

Gameplay: The story of this game is the usual; rescue the damsel in distress. However, there's a sword the main character had found, he's really a human. He held it high in the air and it transfored him into a dragon so he could go forth and fight Zawel and his minions to rescue the girl. This, as I stated, continues on the other TG-16 game Dragon Sabre and again in Dragon Spirit - The New Legend for NES. This is an overhead vertical shooter which is one of the best I've played.

Controls: Quite easy. Everything is what they should be, except the X and Y buttons are also for firing, but rapid fire as this will come in very handy in the WHOLE game I promise you.

Overall: It is a very good game as far as the graphics, music and actual gameplay go, though quite flustering. If you try to spend all day on this, you're going to put your gun to your head eventually. So take breaks if you can't beat this.