DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders

DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders is an action-adventure game inspired by the "How to Train Your Dragon" franchise. Players control Scribbler, a young scholar, and Patch, a unique dragon, as they explore islands, solve puzzles, and battle foes to uncover Scribbler's past.
Gameplay
The game features a mix of combat and environmental puzzles, with straightforward battles and enjoyable boss fights. However, combat can feel shallow, and some locations may appear repetitive or quite similar.
Exploration
Players can fly on Patch, enhancing travel but not adding much depth to gameplay. The environments are visually appealing but lack variety. There are side quest you might want to complete in order to upgrade your weapons to improve during the game.
Visuals & Audio
The graphics capture the animated film's charm, though character designs received mixed reviews I believe they are good enough. The audio, however, is generic and doesn't significantly enhance the experience so much to be fair.
Final Thoughts
While enjoyable for fans of the franchise, the game may not meet expectations for seasoned gamers. It's best suited for younger audiences or dedicated fans who can find it at a discount. Saying that I do not consider the game as horrible but just average.

While it's a nice little game it has its problems. I had two main ones, namely the janky controls (they made some puzzles and fights unnecesseraly frustrating) and the saving system. While having autosaving is nice having to redo everything aside from opening chests isn't. These two problems aside I had fun playing through. I really enjoyed the flying parts and seeing the freed dragons flying around Havenholme. The dragonmodels are cute and Patch's desing and powers are creative. You can easily learn the fighting patterns and you get a lot of helpful tips on the loading screen.
All in all I rate it 8/10.

Its pretty good honestly. The best part of the game is when you get a little freedom to island hop while flying the unique dragon to this game. There really aren't any other httyd games out there anymore, this one is fun to an extent. The puzzles are easy, the game play is very simple. I don't have much to complain about but just as little to compliment. All in all if your a dreamworks lover or httyd fan its still some nice content to check out.

I quite like it and I think it has cute graphics. I do think its worth the discounted price not the full price. Although when I look at the controls it shows me an Xbox controller not keyboard, so I think it'll be very easy to forget the controls if you do not remember them :(

Worth $10, not $30
The game is defenitely too short, not to mention janky combat and flight system without the ability to rebind anything at all, puzzles were fun though, but it is NOT worth the full asking price, get it on like a sale like i did instead.
The designs are cute though so i'll give the devs that, though i really wish we could rebind the controls and turn off the stupid inverted flight controls, if i wanna fly up i wanna use the "up" button, not "down".

I know this is geared more for kids and thats who will enjoy it the most but overall i found it a nice experience. That said it's short, easy and not worth $30. The game only has 3 main islands with 2 parts each but does offer 6 more islands with only 1 part each that you can skip if you wish. Do note there are no voice acting outside them saying a word or grunting before you need to read. I'ed almost rather not have anything because them saying something as the text pops up kept making me think they were going to talk.
Gameplay has you controlling 2 characters a human and a dragon that you swap between. Both are new characters but you do interact with Hickup, Astrid (sells potions for flowers you find) and Gobber (upgrades weapons and sells gear for ore you find) then the rest you'll send letters to/from. The human has 3 weapons that have a swing attack and a charge move (hold attack). The stronger the weapon the slower it swings and they are used for puzzles (mainly the hammer as any weapon can cut trees). The dragon uses breath attacks that can also be charged and also have an added effect. Cold will freeze water, fire will burn thorns but also clear smoke, and Thunder can activate statues. Both characters have a block pluse a roll/dodge ability that also breaks stuff rolled thru and you can use potions but only the week potion is used without going into the menu (i don't think you can pick your active item). You can also leave areas at any time except boss fights.
If you like how to train your dragon this is not to bad game but it is a kids game so it's not very hard and even dying will just reset you in the room or a room back with all items you found. There are some bugs but i did not run into anything gamebreaking though i did fall off the map a few times (you just die and reset).
6/10 get it on sale/bundle

Simple game, but fun for smaller children or fans of older zelda style gameplay.