The Spoony Experiment

AD&D: Dragons of Flame Review

by Scarlett on April 6, 2007 · 39 comments


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The Heroes of the Lance return to save Krynn from the Dark Lord Verminaard and the menace of the Dragonarmies. Can the Spoony One turn back the dark tide of evil one more time? Can he survive this horrible game?

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{ 39 comments… read them below or add one }

1
Nolan January 3, 2009 at 2:03 pm

Heh, I just got the Dragonlance books. I bet they’re nothing like this game.

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Sacul January 8, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Hey, what version of the HG2TG Theme is this? It’s definitely the best I’ve heard, keep up the good work man!

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Rotulo January 8, 2009 at 8:32 pm

So damn funny.

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AgentJandS January 8, 2009 at 10:51 pm

Lol Hitch hikeres guide to the galaxy FTFW, and Fuse Box count 42 dude you gotta make a that a shirt

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rob January 11, 2009 at 11:57 am

I’d forgotten how catchy the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy theme was.

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mark January 19, 2009 at 7:32 am

What’s that rock tune that’s playing during the fight with the dragon? It’s awesome – anybody can tell me?

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Emo Git January 26, 2009 at 1:42 pm

you’re hands down the best critic ever, i’de love to see a full trilogy review, matrix, lord of the rings, the underworld movies, something extremely likeable but that deserves to get raped by the spoony one, mystery science theatre style like dragon strike. you might not do requests but if yer not busy on something else hopefully you’ll skim through comments and consider the idea?

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fable2dog February 2, 2009 at 11:41 am

dude i really want to know when ur minority report game reveiw is comin out i saw it in johny nuemonic its been ages since tht and i havent seen it make a vlog telling everyone wen its coming out! great work ur adored by many millions of people u have more supporters than baraq obama!

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JohnSmith March 4, 2009 at 10:36 pm

The last song is actually from Doctor Who I think…I THINK….OH GOD DON’T HURT ME!

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StevenH March 6, 2009 at 4:58 pm

“Dur, is this Ember’s room?”
“TAKE A FUCKING GUESS, FLINT!”
Made me laugh really hard. The game looks awful, but you managed to make it compulsive viewing, as usual.

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ambiguous Sam March 17, 2009 at 1:20 pm

Man thats freaky i had hitchhikersguide to to the galaxy on in the back ground when i was watching this and it took me a few seconds to work out what that music was at the end….. untill 42 of course!

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Ironically Maiden March 29, 2009 at 4:15 am

Hey Spoony, whats the name of the song playing when you fought Ember the terrible bastard?

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lordvargar April 3, 2009 at 4:33 am

when are you going to review the next dragonlance game?

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Alucard Dalv April 3, 2009 at 10:43 pm

OMG! Phenomenal hitchhikers reference! Judgeing by the lack of responses to this I guess I’m the only one that got it. Easily my fav book series and a damn fine movie as well. Your vids are awesome and I LOVE the ff8 series (even though I actually like the game). Keep up the great work because I check ur site daily for updates and you never let me down on great material. Special thanks to the AVGN for introducing me to the Nostalgic Critic and then the Nostalgic Critic for introducing me to Spoony!

P.S. I can’t wait for review 42. Maybe thats what they were talking about.

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GameMan329 April 10, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Many games I’ve played have the same design of a overly huge map which only 1/10 of it actually matters and the rest is just there to make the world seem interactive although you have no power over anything.

I agree with Noa, with the mazes, they are not an important obstacle, they don’t require any skills, no logic and no common sense… It’s just there to piss you off because it’s waist deep in enemies and pointlessly long.

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wesley April 21, 2009 at 5:15 pm

I love that music at the end with the wierd screaming effect. Just that EEEEEK!, EEEEERK!, EEEEK!, EEEERK! SOUND

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Brendoz April 30, 2009 at 6:55 am

I would love to see spoony go crazy about the next sequel of the game :D

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vwhbj2003 May 8, 2009 at 7:06 am

mark and maiden asked about the name of that song….well its from crystal method. its called weaponds of mass destruction. its from the blade soundtrack.

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C_Sepulch May 11, 2009 at 1:28 pm

I wouldn’t worry as much about the next one. It has little in common with the previous ones. It isn’t even a sidescroller.

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fattoler May 19, 2009 at 2:50 am

WOW! They said “Bastards” in a Nintendo game!

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Nathan May 30, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Magic Missiles win at life, always.

22
Katherine June 5, 2009 at 9:20 am

>W<
LOLZ!

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Ink June 13, 2009 at 10:12 am

Now I want to go back an reread Drangon Lance.

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kankuroboa June 24, 2009 at 9:34 pm

how can you have played D&D and say that having a weakness to magic missle (a spell that cant be doged or have damage averted without magical resistance) makes a creature weak lol

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Assiman June 27, 2009 at 11:35 am

I’m sorry Spoony, but this game looks great. I haven’t played it (I played the first one though, ugh), but it looks ok. Music, characters, maps, COLORS and the fantasy feel, it seems to be a nice game

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bob or something June 27, 2009 at 6:18 pm

haha 42.

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Pronoun June 28, 2009 at 9:06 pm

Douglas Adams reference for the win.

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ak July 30, 2009 at 11:32 pm

you know i found a copy of a dragon lance animated movie in my local block buster,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825245/
i wounder if you’ve seen this, and i wounder if this may become material for another review.

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Atticus August 1, 2009 at 10:30 am

All these screaming until the world blows up moments are making me wonder how long it’ll take for a classic Gungrave BRAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDDDOOOOOOOONNNNNNN moment.

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Floyd August 24, 2009 at 3:31 pm

Seriously Spoony wow. I’m addicted to your reviews now and i just came across this one. And it was FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY AS HELL. HA HA HA HA HA HA

The song @ 7:55 OHHH MAAANN, IT WAS SO PERFECT!!!!! Loving your reviews, will try to post more comments as i go along. Serioulsy keep it up and YOU’RE THE MAN!

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Bastian August 26, 2009 at 4:16 pm

The sad part is that the books are actually really good

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Benjie September 13, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Wats the name of the songs when Noah realizes there is going to be a sequal to the game

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Tyler Featherstone September 14, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Great music cue at the end, Spoony. Your video’s help make the week bearable.

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VGProdigy September 25, 2009 at 1:57 pm

Holy shit!

Most epic ending evar.

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Truh October 10, 2009 at 5:15 am

> Phenomenal hitchhikers reference! Judgeing by the lack of responses to this I guess I’m the only one that got it.

No, obviously you didn’t get anyhting!
There were several people already who posted this before you. And judgeing by the lack of responses before you, it would have been easy to figure this out – which you obvioulsy didn’t do.

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brad November 2, 2009 at 12:02 pm

lol you played with a ROM

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Michael November 2, 2009 at 2:30 pm

since no one seems to have answered this…

@sacul – This is the H2G2 theme from the motion picture, created by Joby Talbot, et al.

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BaconGrease November 6, 2009 at 8:22 pm

I looked it up, it’s actually called ‘Journey of the Sorcerer’ which is an awesome name. And I think that’s how it’s tied in there. And it is a modernized version of the theme to original movie adaptation of the original radio series. Apparently.

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BaconGrease November 6, 2009 at 8:23 pm

So Truh, he was just being a jerk and not explaining the part he got that wasn’t immediately obvious.

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