Why? I don’t know, but it’s a frustrating wrinkle to the gameplay.Ĭontrols-wise, they’re what you may have expected of a game like this. The order your monsters will appear in can only be modified in towns. Curiously, you won’t have any in-battle control of who joins the fray. Should there be more in reserve, the additional creature will automatically swap in if any belonging to the original line-up fall to their opponents. At any given time, you’ll get up to six creatures going up against one another. Speaking of the fights, the battle system is turn-based in nature. As you might have gathered, you’re probably going to want to make use of these elemental variances in your fights to ensure maximum efficiency. There are over two hundred monsters to beat down, catch, beat down, evolve and sacrifice in the name of acquiring precious soul gems (There are even spirit totem things to bend to your nefarious will.) Each of these critters also come in four different flavors: earth, wind, fire and water. Your father and the rest of the world can totally take care of themselves. Given that this is a Pokemon-esque game, you can sort of guess which of these goals will take priority. As a fledgling monster trainer, it’s your duty to be the very best, figure out exactly what’s going on with your absent father and find out why dragons have suddenly returned to your world. Nonetheless, the core product works and it works well. The dungeon sequences are the only places where the visuals genuinely falter, a crying shame given the fact you’ll be spending a fair amount of time rummaging through subterranean labyrinths and haunted manors. However, if this sort of aesthetic does appeal to you, the game actually doesn’t look half-shabby. Do you like anime? If not, you’re probably going to wince at the art style because it’s a decidedly Japanese-looking title that we’ve got here. Of course, as is often the case, there’s always a caveat. In fact, if you’re the sort who has spent any amount of time obsessed with Pokemon or Digimon or any of the many other monster-training games out there, chances are you’ll find it hard to dislike Dragon Island Blue. It’s not perfect, something that Brad and Eli made amply clear in our TA Plays video of the game, but it’s not a complete cop-out either.
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