8-bit画风沦为遮羞布，16种职业不过是换皮技能库，三队切换拖成战斗流水线。剧情是勇者屠龙的老旧磁带，角色台词僵硬如NPC自动应答机。

隐藏地牢塞满鸡肋道具，Boss战策略浅过儿童填色本。KEMCO用像素滤镜包装罐头式JRPG，定价却堪比新作，怀旧税收得明目张胆，不如打开FC模拟器重温真经典。

This should have stayed a mobile game, I mean I have to assume that it is a mobile game

Considering how much I loved FFV I had to play this after seeing it but if they actually spent time making this game good rather than just filing it with in-app purchases it could have been something better

Pros ....would be the visuals even though it gets repeated just different colors, a minimap and quest tracking

Cons...cons and cons

- there is no option to make the game go full screen
- the game is capped at 24fps which makes it really cancerous to look when you move and the tiles are moving
- its Designed for touch controls obviously ..so you'll use a mouse for everything, there are keyboard controls but mouse is easier.
- Level design is so boring, in a dungeon the main path is empty the extra branches with deadends always have chests and if you used the P2W shop you wouldn't ever need those anyway they're just incredibly weak weapons.
- there is a shop you can open anywhere which I think in the mobile version it used to be a P2W feature so yeah basically this game is almost impossible to beat if you do not use that shop, you get sometimes the currency from monster battles and you start new game with 1000 which is enough to buy a few OP weapons, I did the lottery thing and ended up getting super overpowered stuff that made early game SO easy to the point where I had to use a software to speedup the game because it got so boring and pointless.
- Even with me being super overpowered the game got so incredibly hard later on to the point where monsters would just 1 hit me even though I leveld up to a ridiculous value but still ....so I had to cheat to get 10000000 of that currency to use the p2w shop to get stronger and just skim through the game because it was so boring
- side quests that gives useless stuff.
- monsters are repeated later on but just different colors ..
- Most predictable story pattern ever
- Dialogue choices that adds nothing to the story or changes anything just makes those annoying characters uses their most predictable typical things to say


There is nothing that kept me going in this game, the battles are old school but aren't fun and are taking too long so I just kept the auto battle on at all time, this would have done more at a IDLE game because thats what you'll be doing ..you'll spend 10+ Hours just idling getting XP fighting monsters just to be able to do next chapters.
There are WAY WAAAAAY Too many skills that you get when you keep leveling up that I lost track of what I want to use.
The shops in towns sells pointless weak weapons that you'll never need if you got anything good from the P2W store.



Shortly ? This game was designed for mobile with pay to win features, needing you to spend real money to buy from the premium store which sells over powered weapons, don't want to use that store ? play this game for 15+ hours to be able to finish it when it should be a 5 hours game at best

This could have been a great game but they went on a path I cannot ever support.

Review copy provided by developer via Curator Connect

I still love the original Final Fantasy. I’m not talking about any of the remakes, either, I mean my old, battered NES cartridge with the chunky graphics and knockoff D&D magic and non-functional effects and all. I love it because I grew up with it, because it was a fine product of its time, and because it led to better games in its wake. Some games still chase that ancient, retro ideal without fully understanding the appeal, and that’s where you’ll find Dragon Sinker. It puts up a fine front for a classic JRPG, but the more time you spend with it, the more cracks you find in that facade.

Long ago, the world was devastated by an evil dragon named Wyrmvarg. A trio of heroes, one human, one elf, and one dwarf, came together to defeat the beast and restore peace to the land. But evil never stays down for long in these games, and centuries later Wyrmvarg returned to subjugate the nations that rose in his absence. Without heroes to put him down once again he claim sacrifices from the kingdoms to keep him from torching everything. You step into the greaves of the human prince Abram as he challenges Wyrmvarg, only to escape with his life and embark on a grand quest to gain the strength and allies needed to vanquish the tyrant once and for all.

It’s well-trod ground for the genre, and serves as a perfect introduction to the classic gameplay. You’ll be leading Abram around as he gains party members, explores the world, and beats down monsters for coin and experience in random battles. The journey will take you across an adorable 8-bit-ish world of postage-stamp forests and maze-like valleys in search of mcguffins to defeat the mighty dragon with. In towns you’ll heal up at inns, gear up with new weapons and armors, and load up on healing items for your treks through the countryside. There are treasure chests to be found in the winding dungeons of the world, and random items in pots and barrels around town.

If you’ve ever played a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest title, you know exactly what you’re getting here. There are a few innovations, though, lest you think Dragon Sinker is a straight rip-off in all but name. The party structure is probably the most interesting, because you actually have three parties at a time. Your party leaders are the only full characters whom you can gear up, and then supporting characters can be shuffled into the other three slots in that particular party. There’s a job system where you can switch around classes while retaining some bonuses from previously leveled ones, and also racial bonuses depending on the composition of your party. It’s not a minor thing either, because one of the bonuses is complete immunity to status effects (which are permanent until you rest or use an item to cure them) if your team is all dwarves.

The racial angle is an interesting one, and pops up rather frequently in the story itself. Originally one hero of each race came together to defeat Wyrmvarg together, but in the intervening centuries they grew to dislike one another. Your three party leaders end up being one of each race, and there’s some obvious tension between some of them that has to be worked through. Sadly that’s the only interesting part about the story, as the rest of it is the bog-standard “go to this place to get item of legend” until you assemble what you need to beat the final boss. At least, that’s what I assume because after almost four hours nothing else was happening and I was out of patience.

What kills Dragon Sinker is that the story never progresses past that single quest to defeat your nemesis. There are no twists or surprises, despite numerous side quests and optional dungeons. Even the original Final Fantasy had diversions like the witch’s cave and awakening the elven prince, and some smart pacing in how early you get the ship and other mobility options. Dragon Sinker is built in the mold of the original Dragon Quest but without the openness of that world, and the result is a completely rote adventure with no real payoffs. After four hours and a dozen new party members and a trek across the entire world I’m still on exactly the same quest I was originally, with not a single turn or diversion from that straight path.

I genuinely wanted to stick this one out but once the story lost its luster, cracks started to appear everywhere. By the third hour average battles were getting hard enough to require some extra grinding, which I was not about to put up with without a solid story to chase. The graphics are 8-bit inspired but commit the cardinal sin of mixing resolutions, making everything look like a cut-and-pasted mess. The interface is clean but requires multiple confirmations for simple shop purchases. There’s also a holdover cash shop from its mobile origins full of suspicious items like EXP doublers and additional class skills. You start out with enough currency to buy some of them and earn more at a slow but steady pace, but I’m starting to suspect the game was balanced around buying a bunch of these paid bonuses.

It’s a shame that the foundations of Dragon Sinker are too shaky to stand by, because there are some pretty good ideas here. There’s a shortcut button that heals your party using just enough magic from your healers, and a neat mix of skills that consume MP or HP depending on their effects. I like the three-party concept as well, but ultimately it made battles too drawn-out and complicated for my tastes. What you end up with here is a game that feels like it was designed in a rush in 1988, and then a week before release was re-tooled for the smartphone era. The story and pacing take a backseat to mechanics and economics, and the result just isn’t engaging or gratifying enough to merit your time.



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The lottery pets deal so much damage that you don't really nead to use the regular party members anymore, eliminating the whole class system in the process. The equipment that you can win there are also better than anything else except the DRM store items.
In theory you got 3 teams and can switch back and forth to get the best class + race synergies for the current dungeon ... or you simply dump all the buffs from mastering a class and the stat+ items on your main char.
Speaking of class buffs: the combination of regeneration and survive at 1 hp makes you basically immune to damage.

Kemco games are all generic and bad.
On the Vita or even on phone, it's not so-so bad but it still is better to emulate old games if on phone or play better vita games if on the PS Vita.
Now we're on the PC, and the games Kemco make shouldn't be on the PC, i'm all for having more games and stuff for people to enjoy, but this generic mobile crap has
to stay outside both of the PC and Steam.

To keep it short, the biggest problem with all of their games is that they're pretty much all the same, same content, same stuff, same generic, same crap, generally 24fps limit.
And let's not forget that some (if not all) of them have microtransactions (on the Vita version at least).
Not only they dare make the same bad repetitive and generic crap each time but they sell each of their game overpriced.
Games that should cost about 0.99$ cost you 10$ and more, at this point they literally should be free, that would be their real value, and that's a fact, i don't care if the developer or a fanboy agree or not, it's a fact, i didn't decided it, it's simply a fact, you got a badly made game which is the same as all their games plus it has microtransactions, it is plain thieving at this point.
And people dare to call their games classic and retro games?
Make me laugh, this is nothing like any good classic and retro games, all it has are the 8-bit graphics/textures but other than that, it's too generic and too much of the same in all of their games.

If you hate RPG maker and games that looks like it was made with RPG maker, stay away at all cost!
If you hate uninspired generic crap, stay away at all cost!
If you hate greedy and bad developers who are getting away with this cancer way too easily, stay away at all cost!!

If you like cancerous and overpriced generic mobile rpg maker crap then this may be for you but let me ask you this...
Why...?

1.5/10 - Honestly, 1.5 is all it deserves and that's a fact, not an opinion, their games being the same overpriced generic crap each time is also a fact.
The fact that each of their game are in reality worth 0.99$ (that if you remove the microtransactions entirely and remake the system so it doesn't feel like a mobile game or a game that had microtransactions) is also a fact, so no matter what people or the developer tells you, stay away from their games and
look at the facts, not the fiction.


DON'T buy ANY Kemco games, they are NOT worth your money, and Kemco doesn't deserve anything from neither you or me.
That simple to understand.

RPG Maker strikes again! RPG Maker is a toolset that allows anyone to stamp out a junk retro pixel JRPG with next to no effort, no matter how little talent they have. Dragon Sinker is a prime example of that.

No fullscreen, ugly retro pixel graphics, terrible writing, terrible "artwork", fixed controls, fixed (low) resolution. The developer mapped my HOTAS as a console peasant gamepad so the game was unplayable. The most amusing and entertaining thing about the game is that the developer slapped a $15 price tag on this garbage. You can get actual video games for less.

Absolutely boring. I gave up at the opening.