Play Dragon View Online

Dragon View is one of those weird, ambitious SNES games that tries to do a bit of everything. You start off as Alex, some poor guy whose wedding gets ruined when a wizard kidnaps his fiancée—classic RPG nonsense, but it works. The overworld has this janky first-person view where you wander around like you're in an early '90s dungeon crawler, but then dungeons and towns flip to side-scrolling action. It shouldn't gel, but somehow it does.

Combat's simple at first—just swinging a sword at floating eyeballs and lizard men—but you eventually find cooler weapons like a boomerang that actually feels satisfying to use. The leveling system is straightforward: kill stuff, get stronger. No fuss. What really stuck with me were the little details, like how magic rings hidden in dungeons actually change your attack animations. Feels like the devs crammed in every idea they had, for better or worse.

If you can handle the weird perspective shifts and some clunky movement, there's a lot of charm here. Just don't expect it to hold your hand.