Sable’s Grimoire was one of the best visual novels I have played in recent memory so when sequels started coming out that focused on certainSable’s Grimoire was one of the best visual novels I have played in recent memory so when sequels started coming out that focused on certain characters you met in the original I was all onboard and luckily A Dragon’s Treasure didn’t disappoint. It focuses on the half dragon character Drakan you meet in the original and involves spending your break after the first year of school at her mother’s cave. The story starts off pretty slowly and didn’t have much in the way of choice for the first half of the game or so but it did pick up speed; interest; and more choices in the last half. To be honest with how the game ended up in the second half I can understand the slow buildup and almost forgive it. At first I was disappointed that the flowchart showing routes to various endings in a fog of war format was absent in the sequel but it’s not a huge deal breaker but was a handy guide to which choices were more important than others. I was also a tad worried that I couldn’t load a save from the original with all of my choices ala the Mass Effect series but luckily the way they handled actions in the previous game it wasn’t really needed. The art was still very good and the dialogue was handled with a maturity that the first one had as well.
I played A Dragon’s Treasure on Linux. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. The game allows you to save at any time and has forty save slots for this.
Game Version Played: 1.0
Game Engine: Ren’Py
Graphics API: OpenGL
Disk Space Used: 417 MB
CPU Usage: 1-18 %
RAM Usage: 1.8-2.3 GB
Overall if you enjoyed Sable’s Grimoire and want to learn more about Drakan and her family then you should enjoy A Dragon’s Treasure. I finished the game in seven hours and twenty three minutes which allows me to see two of the endings. I paid $7.98 CAD for it and felt that was very fair value.
My Score: 8/10
My System:
Intel I7-4770 | 16GB DDR3-2133 CL9 | Intel HD 4600 1536MB | Mesa 20.0.8 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Trisquel 9.0 | Mate 1.20.0 | Kernel 5.10.14-gnu… Expand
