THE DRAGONESS: COMMAND OF THE FLAME is a really fun game for HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC fans

If you are a fan of Heroes of strength and magic then you have to try The dragoness: the command of the flame. Once I got used to playing, I enjoyed it a lot. However, for me there are some drawbacks that keep me from liking it as much Heroes of strength and magic.

My first major drawback of the game is army building. Not everything is bad, just different. I liked that creatures had health that could be regained between battles rather than numbers that once lost were completely gone. This made it easy to keep track of how much total damage my creatures were taking. I also liked the fact that each had a shield amount that would be depleted before actually losing health. My main problem is that any scenario where you gain creatures from your city and that’s it, you can’t keep going back to stock up on what you lost during the scenario. There are places scattered everywhere to buy creatures, but their costs are enormous compared to the number of resources at times. This definitely makes you more wary of losing creatures in battle, but it was really frustrating as at the start of the game you can only take two creatures with you from your base, even if more creatures are available. There are upgrades you can purchase to increase this number which I highly recommend making a plan to get as soon as possible. I also had trouble starting the game when I went to strengthen my creatures. To make a creature stronger, you merge it with an exact duplicate. For example, you can combine two griffins to make a stronger tier griffin with a star. But to upgrade that new griffin, you had to have another griffin with one star, which means that to get a two-star griffin it takes four to get started. Getting so many with scarce resources proved difficult, but this may be a minor issue in the next game.

My other main gripe is that in battle it can be difficult to tell which creature you are controlling when you have multiple of them. Many times I used multiple griffins and often accidentally sent one with very low health thinking I was checking a different one. Now that it’s partly my doing, it mostly happened when I was in a hurry and didn’t pay as much attention as I should have. Below it shows you the turn order of all creatures, but when using multiples you have to pay close attention to the creature’s base to know which one you are going to move. I just wish maybe the creature had some sort of full outline that really helps illustrate exactly what you should be paying attention to.

There are many positives in favor of this game. I really like the fact that it’s fully voiced, it always adds something to hear the characters speak rather than just reading the dialogue. The music and visuals in the game are also really lovely. I loved seeing the variety of the creatures and how their appearance would change as they got stronger.

I really enjoyed the fight in general. I had to change my thinking a bit, but once I did it was quite fun. I highly recommend making the battle speed as fast as possible, or at least a little faster than normal. Normal speed for me was slow and boring at times, but when I sped up the battle, the game really made me better.

I loved how your hero could get new abilities and bonuses in each scenario. For each scenario, your hero will have three bonuses to choose from on each turn. These range from bonus resources, healing, movement speed, and combat bonuses. It was really cool to be able to have a variety of bonuses to choose from on each turn, so when I needed to go somewhere faster I could gain movement speed, but if I was going through a tough fight I could get a dodge bonus for example. It helped to vary the game and made it more important which hero you choose each time.

Overall, I really enjoyed this game. Even the things that I see as disadvantages, although sometimes very frustrating, are challenges that can be overcome with practice in the game. At the end of the day, I still prefer Heroes of strength and magic, but it was fun and different enough that I would definitely like to keep playing until the end. I rate this game 8/10.